[terycarl]

81% of all Protestant converts from Catholicism

you don't "convert" from Catholicism....Convert indicated an advancement or upward movement. You deny true Christianity and follow a human founded sect when you fall away from the church.

[NKP_Vet]

Once baptised Catholic,you are always Catholic. If you fall away from the Church you are a LAPSED CATHOLIC. I could care less what PROTESTant faith you might have joined. God will not hold that against you. Try putting your eternal soul before your own earthly interests and go to Confession and get back into your faith. AMEN.

[Elsie]

Convert indicated an advancement or upward movement.

Oh?

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con·vert

verb

verb: convert; 3rd person present: converts; past tense: converted; past participle: converted; gerund or present participle: converting

kənˈvərt/

1. 1.

   cause to change in form, character, or function.

   "production processes that converted raw material into useful forms"

   synonyms:

   change, turn, transform, metamorphose, transfigure, transmute; More humoroustransmogrify; technicalpermute "plants convert the sun's energy into chemical energy"

   • change or be able to change from one form to another.

     "the seating converts to a double or two single beds"
   •  
   • change one's religious faith or other beliefs.

     "at sixteen he converted to Catholicism"
   •  
   • persuade (someone) to do this.

     "he was converted in his later years to the socialist cause"

     synonyms:

     proselytize, evangelize, bring to God, redeem, save, reform, re-educate, cause to see the light More "they sought to convert sinners"

   • change (money, stocks, or units in which a quantity is expressed) into others of a different kind.

     "the figures have been converted at $0.545 to the Dutch guilder"
   •  
   • adapt (a building) to make it suitable for a new purpose.

     "the space can be easily converted into a home office"

     synonyms:

     adapt, turn, change, alter, modify, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, refashion, redesign, restyle, revamp, renovate, rehabilitate; More informaldo up, rehab "the factory was converted into lofts"

   • Logic

     transpose the subject and predicate of (a proposition) according to certain rules to form a new proposition by inference.

[daniel1212]

you don't "convert" from Catholicism....Convert indicated an advancement or upward movement. You deny true Christianity and follow a human founded sect when you fall away from the church.

What next? Following Rome which declares truth by fiat, RCs here compel not only Scriptures to support Rome but even words. faced with multitudes converting to evangelical faith which is a threat to Rome, which treats liberal RCs as members, convert is disallowed as meaning "to bring over from one belief, view, or party to another" or other than its definitions , and instead it must mean an advancement or upward movement, i.e. to become an RC. And consistent to this constrained definition, all converts from Rome have denied true Christianity.

Of course, it is unlikely that this assertion of Rome's elitism and broadside against all Protestant converts would qualify as bigotry according to the Roman Catholic (another word that is objected to) definition of the word here, as it has been decreed that there is not and never has been a scintilla of anti-protestant bigotry on FR.

The autocrats have spoken: the matter is settled.