“God bless you for trying to argue with the haters...You just can’t get through the rabid anti-Catholicism.”
I’ve run into you many times, but I don’t know you, Bigg Red. I bet if we stuck to topics aside from Christianity we would agree much more often than we disagree. And the same goes for almost every other FReeper. The sole reason I occasionally engage in these discussions is because I care about people and cannot stand the thought of anyone I had the opportunity to reach being misled, even if my role is only to make them uncomfortable in their soul and start thinking. Where The Lord is concerned, I would rather tell someone a hard truth and anger them than remain silent and keep the peace. Ultimately I know that the only way I can influence you or anyone else is if The Lord opens your eyes to the truth. It’s in His hands, not mine. My job as a believer is to continually point people to Christ and the great truths of His word and leave the rest in His hands.
Yes, I am anti-Roman Catholic, and rabidly so, if by that you mean I am against the Roman Catholic religious system. I am not, however, against any Catholic person, the leaders of your church aside. I see the comments made here by Catholics and they hurt me, but not for me, for them. I see so much superstition, so much deception, so much bondage, so much spiritual blindness, so much ignorance and it really bothers me because I see souls in eternal peril, souls of people I would really like and care about if they lived next door. Souls who remind me of my Catholic relatives, who are as decent as they can be, but who are also as lost as they can be.
I know I don’t always use the right words and sometimes I express hard opinions that are bound to be upsetting, but I do it because many years ago someone I barely knew cared enough to tell me the hard truth. I don’t do it because I’m a hater. I do it because I’m not.
May God bless you!
P.S. Ever notice how no Christian here seems to push joining the Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, etc.? Yes, we have theological distinctions and we debate those, but ultimately we all want people to come to Christ. In contrast, the Catholics here continually (I’m talking daily) point us to Rome or some aspect of the Roman system, and not Christ.
Well, I thank you for your blessings.
I am sure you are well-meaning, but you are the one who has been misguided in your religious path. But I will not argue with you or try to convince you.
BTW, I am never angered by the anti-Catholic comments, just saddened.
May our Blessed Lord watch over you and bless you.
Well stated!
Ah, yes...
The word even Whitey 'hates' to be called!!
A sure bet to befuddle the one called and generate an almost visceral response to PROVE they ain't one!
(Homey don't play dat.)