....”Catholicism is a very demanding religion....the lukewarm are winnowed out”.
What an awful thing to say about those who are seeking to know Christ...... Jesus welcomes all who would seek Him, and accepts all who care to know Him at whatever level of understanding they might have. HE is not a hard taskmaster.
We all know there are those among us in all churches who will grow in Christ at various levels of understanding...and we love and care for them all...lukewarm, the lost, and all who would come are welcomed and should be honored no matter what level they are at in understanding the things of our Lord.
For....”there are many parts, but one body..The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!”.... And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”.....
On the contrary,... those parts of the body that seem to be weaker ...’are indispensable’... and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. ...
..... God has combined the members of the body and has given ..’greater honor’.. to the parts ‘that lacked’ it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.”
I Corinthians Chapter 12.
The lukewarm receive choice words from Jesus himself in Scripture. He’s pretty hard on them. He always tells those in error that they are in error.
I stand by my words. Most non-practicing Catholics only had a problem with Catholicism when they were told NO: no divorce, no abortion, no promiscuity or impurity. When a difficult situation arose and the time came to walk the walk, they chose self over obedience.
That’s pretty hard to admit to yourself, much less others. It creates a lot of cognitive dissonance. So they give other reasons. Protestants are only too happy to listen to their complaints and tell them they did the right thing.
When you love Jesus, His yoke is easy. When you love yourself, His yoke is heavy. We see this in the Gospels.
Finally, if you want to know Christ, the best way, the most complete way, the most spiritual and miraculous way, is to know him through the Catholic understanding of him. It is amazing!