It's not mean spirited...It's intellectual and spiritual reasoning...
Why would a person who is saved, has a personal relationship with Jesus, move on to the Catholic church where a personal relationship with Jesus is mocked in the Catholic religion??? What person who is led by the Holy Spirit would give that up to be led by your magisterium??? And what born again, saved Christian would give up that salvation for the insecurity of, we won't know if we are saved' til we get there???
I doubt that anyone who moved from a non Catholic church to the Catholic religion has had a salvation experience, thus making them Christian in name only...
Oh my goodness!!! You certainly are lacking in knowledge of what the Catholic church is all about.
I find it disgusting that people post opinions based on such ignorance. You are entitled to your opinion but not to your own facts. Where do you get the idea that a personal relationship with Jesus is mocked? And that we are led by the magisterium & not by the Holy Spirit? Please get some info before spreading such nonsense.
Further, you should also try reading some conversion stories since you seem to doubt that newly minted Catholics have ever had a salavtion experience. Sheesh!! What unadulterated ignorance!!!!
You wrote:
“Why would a person who is saved, has a personal relationship with Jesus, move on to the Catholic church where a personal relationship with Jesus is mocked in the Catholic religion??? “
More anti-Catholic mendacity for all to see.
“I doubt that anyone who moved from a non Catholic church to the Catholic religion has had a salvation experience, thus making them Christian in name only...”
And your doubts are ridiculous. Your sort of backward reasoning is necessary, however, for the sectarian to keep up his belief in his sect and heresy.
Catholics are the only ones that do have a true personal relationship with Jesus. It happens every time we consume him in the Eucharist. Every Protestant religion denies the Real presence, they have a personal relationship with a metaphor.