The term "Protestant" is used as if the Catholics in question are forsaking one Credo for another. They're not. The term "Protestant" does not signify a uniform, coherent system of belief. Some of the Catholics who are leaving are swallowing the lies of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Some are embracing the "prosperity gospel" of Osteen and Hinn. Some are becoming Baptists, some are signing up for Calvinism, some are joing the local storefront preacher and some are becoming Methodists.
In other words, they're being scattered to the four winds. They're cutting themselves adrift on a sea of individualism and subjectivism which are the two overriding characteristics of American congregationalism.
Good luck with that.
As a Catholic myself, I would rather hear the gospel of prosperity than the gospel of redistribution and trickle down we’re getting from the Vatican these days. Be fruitful and multiply we are commanded in the Bible. Celebrate! We’re not put on this earth to give up everything.
There is a reason for this article.
We went to a parish (not my wife’s home one) last week where he priest said that Jesus had no idea he was God until maybe after the Resurrection. I asked him after the service to clarify what he meant, and he said “well, we really don’t think he had any idea.” He also said that he probably WASN’T all God for most of his life. Left me a bit stunned.
This man TEACHES at a seminary. He is not Christian, but is openly teaching this.