In fact,the reason that the ex-Catholics I know,and I know many,left the Church to either opt out of all religious organizations or join protestant churches,was because what Christ had taught was demanding,there were rules that were difficult to follow especially if one wanted to do what they wanted to do.
They also liked the social interaction in the protestant services and the lack of hard and fast rules and the fact that they didn't have to go to confession and if they didn't like the minister they would go to another church with a minister they liked more.
Since the sixties there has been a group that were infiltrated into the Church pretty intensively after WWI(1917) and had risen to some high positions by the sixties. The idea was to destroy the Church from within so that come the millennium that Church would pose no threat. But the Triune God protects His people.
Ecumenical to me means let’s all get along, sing kumbaya around the campfire, and not hurt anyone’s feelings and offend them by telling them that in order to enter the Kingdom one must be saved and be filled with the Spirit.
What amazes me is how blind Catholics are to what is really going on in this world and how big a role the Catholic church will play in end time deception.
God is not saving Catholicism for Himself...He is allowing her to prostitute herself at the altar of every false religion in the world, including Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Individuals Catholics who do love God should get the heck out now and never look back.
Until Catholics open their eyes and see that they are NOT in the the body of believers in Christ, they will continue to believe that all is well...right up till the day they perish. Stop being offended and open your eyes, hearts, and minds to the true Gospel and the role it plays it bringing the Antichrist to the world stage.
Antichrist’s Coming World Religion
Hunt, Dave
May 1 1990
http://www.thebereancall.org/content/antichrists-coming-world-religion
First excerpt from article at link:
“Positive Christianity” has been growing in popularity in America and is already being exported by Western church leaders into Eastern Europe. Those who promote positive/possibility thinking and positive confession are among the most influential television preachers and church leaders in the West. Any suggestion that a teaching is not biblical is rejected as “negative” and destructive of the unity that must be achieved at all cost, not only between Protestants and Catholics but among all religions.
This is what I have heard from the Catholics here....we are supposed to be “united” in Christ...where is the love for your fellow brethren in Christ...why so divisive among fellow Christians...why not “unite” with us in love for Christ.
I will tell you why. Because Catholics are not Christian...yes, they think they are and that is why all this outcry of why are you bashing us...we are just like you. No, my friends, you are not! You have been deceived by Satan and Rome and will find yourself separated from God forever unless you repent and leave Roman Catholicism.
And still we come and beg and plead for you to hear us and listen to us, and still you think we are the enemy. There is a genuine enemy out there...one many of you are not prepared to deal with whatsoever. It is a spiritual enemy that seeks not only to destroy your body but your soul too. And it can only be fought by the Spirit of the Lord and those He indwells.
Second excerpt from article at link:
“A vast ecumenical movement has been quietly gathering irresistible momentum for years. Its roots go back to the 1893 Parliament of Religions in Chicago. Swami Vivekananda, who stole the show, later founded Vedanta temples across the Western world. A new vision of religious unity spawned such organizations as The Temple of Understanding (founded in 1960 to unite all world religions) in which secular leaders such as John D. Rockefeller and popes such as Paul VI and John XXIII played a role. It has been meeting for years at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine (Episcopalian). Similar ecumenical groups also connected with the UN Meditation Room include Wainwright House of Rye, NY, involved in Jungian spiritual psychology and with more impact upon mainstream churches. Periodic “Spiritual Summits” of world religions are held, as at St. John’s in October 1975. It included a Shinto worship ceremony performed at the cathedral’s “Christian” altar and culminated in addresses at the United Nations by representatives of five major faiths. Mother Teresa was a keynote speaker.”
This ecumenical movement is happening just as Scripture says it will. A one world religion is coming and the Catholic church will be one of the biggest players. Is that what believers want to be involved in? Catholics call themselves believers and nowhere does Scripture say believers are to be a part of this. We are called out of the world, not to be a part of bringing it all together under the banner of religion with Rome at the head.
Some Catholics here are so hardcore and rabid for their religion, I fear they are already lost. But there are some here with wonderful, gentle, and kind spirits and those are the ones I speak to. Really look deeply into what is going on in the world and the role the Catholic church is playing in it and ask yourself...is this from the God of the bible or is it from the God of this world? (2 Corinthians 4:4)
Come out of this godless religious institution while you still can!
Third excerpt from article at link:
“Both the Pope and Gorbachev are pushing the idea of a “united Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals.” Gorbachev justifies his view by saying that Russians are Europeans, too, because of their “Christian heritage” dating back 1,000 years to the “conversion” of Czar Vladimir. Staggering stuff from the head of world communism, which has tried to destroy Christianity for 70 years! Eastern Europe is in the process of being united with Western Europe—unthinkable a few months ago. We are seeing the prophesied revival of the Roman Empire, which included much of Eastern Europe. Time just changed its spelling from Rumania to Romania in response to complaints by its many citizens pointing out its Roman heritage. The Pope and Roman Catholicism, and particularly the world’s 30 million [Note: 70 million in 1995] Catholic charismatics, will play a key role in coming events.”
Fourth excerpt from the article at link:
“It is the Cross that is compromised by ecumenism.”
Is that what Catholics, who call themselves believers, want to do? If the answer is an emphatic NO as it should be, then the only option is to leave Rome and come to Jesus.