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"Something I picked up from comparing your church's beliefs/teaching to Scripture.

When, where, and how did you acquire sufficient knowledge of the Catholic Church's beliefs and teachings to be able to form a valid opinion of it? Have you actually studied the Catechism instead of accepting misinterpreted out of context and completely fabricated quips and excerpts thrown out by other ignorant anti-Catholics more interested in making a point than actually speaking the truth? Have you ever actually studied the complete Catechism or done the research to actually understand the meaning or context of any of any of its thousands of footnotes and references? Have you ever educated yourself on the derivation of the symbolism and imagery developed and used over the last 2,000 years as opposed to using an on-line dictionary?

Your claim to be able to form and accurately express an opinion or critique of the Church is nothing more than another example of the Protestant puffery that fosters the belief that you were born knowing all you need to know to be able to accurately interpret Scripture too.

strangely enough, I read posts from Catholics who are posting Catechism and doctrinal teachings of your church. Trying to show us how wrong we are, your team posts your teachings and beliefs all the time. Have you not read them? Or are they posting from another authority? Hey, if they don't have it right, tell them. Not me. I'll ping you to one posted by a CATHOLIC next time i get one.

You see, all we have to do is give your side Scripture, and here you come, backing up your point with NOT EXPLICIT SCRIPTURE, but catechism, and creeds, and doctrine, and canon. So it's pretty much right there, without having to dig. The only way to stop it is to demand your teaching/beliefs not be given. But then what would you have? Nothing but the IMPLICIT Word of God...

When, where, and how did you acquire sufficient knowledge of the Catholic Church's beliefs and teachings to be able to form a valid opinion of it? Have you actually studied the Catechism instead of accepting misinterpreted out of context and completely fabricated quips and excerpts thrown out by other ignorant anti-Catholics more interested in making a point than actually speaking the truth? Have you ever actually studied the complete Catechism or done the research to actually understand the meaning or context of any of any of its thousands of footnotes and references? Have you ever educated yourself on the derivation of the symbolism and imagery developed and used over the last 2,000 years as opposed to using an on-line dictionary?

In other words, there aren't any Catholics who understand your religion either...

I'm thinking it's not nearly as complicated as you make it out to be...

No one's interested in the whos, the whys or hows...It's the finished product that we're interested in...And it can all be summed up in short sentences...

For example, it's your claim that Jesus is the Mother of God (the Son)...Now we know the Catholic church's position on that issue...

The rest of the issues can pop out just as easily...And we understand what you are saying so let's not pretend it's some mysterious, magical top secret set of documents that only the Grand Wizard can understand...