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To: metmom
Thank you for your gracious response. No harm done.

The typical Catholic knee jerk reaction to some former Catholic's exposing the inconsistencies in Catholic doctrine is to accuse them of having never *REALLY * understood the Catholic doctrine, usually due to being poorly catechized by the church. (Something which MANY of us former Catholics have been accused)

Ah, I see what you meant. That never crossed my mind actually. You raise an interesting point though. When an exCatholic misstates Catholic doctrine or otherwise misrepresents the Church's position, what are we to conclude? (Not accusing you of doing this, just asking in general as it does happen on this site.) I'm not talking about presenting a position accurately and disagreeing with it. I'm talking about stating something false about the faith. It seems more charitable to say someone wasn't given proper instruction on the topic than to state the other possibility--that it's intentional distortion. Or is there another perspective I'm missing?

Peace be with you.

180 posted on 12/09/2012 7:39:49 PM PST by PeevedPatriot
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To: PeevedPatriot; boatbums; RnMomof7; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; caww; ...

Pinging a couple other Catholics who really did (do) know their Catholic doctrine.

The problem isn’t the Catholics posting a response to actual lies about the Catholic church.

What has happened is that virtually all of the former Catholics have posted what they were taught, raised by the Catholic church to believe, and what they have seen in practice, and that’s where the knee jerk reaction comes in from the Catholics.

The Catholics attempt at refuting it is to accuse us of being poorly catechized, and yet some of those they accuse of that have TAUGHT Catechism classes. Additionally, many of us report the same teaching that Catholics say are lies about the RCC, and yet, until we met on FR, we never knew each other. We come from a geographically diverse experience and yet report the same things.

Now honestly, if that many people from all different areas report having the same teachings, what would you consider the reason to be? That the RCC taught it wrong, or that everyone just happened to learn it all wrong the same way?

One would think the odds of everyone all getting the same things wrong in the same way to be astronomical, but it never seems to occur to them that the RCC is the problem. No, we all just happened to misunderstand it all in the same way. Really?

They just cannot bring themselves to admit the RCC might be wrong.


184 posted on 12/09/2012 8:21:27 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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