That is why I usually don't get on these threads. It really is like casting pearls before people, but have you ever heard of the Navigators? They are the ones who led me to The Lord. Dawson Trotman, Bill Bright, Chuck Smith and Charles Stanley have had an impact on my walk.
Yes, I have heard of them.
I don’t like all the negativity these kinds of threads generate either and I also don’t believe anyone who posts to them will change their mind.
However I must admit, at least from a Catholic perspective, there is a point and a reason for posting the pro-Catholic ones. (And so, I am forced to say in fairness the pro-Protestant ones). And that is for evangelization of the lurker.
I try to avoid these as much as possible but they are educational for me at times. And also interesting. But they can also be toxic of course.
So there have been times when I’ve thought if begging my fellow Catholics to not post threads like this. But I always return to the possibility of evangelization of some unknown lurker somewhere, maybe something said something I don’t even say, will stick in the mind of someone who is even an atheist, much less a non Catholic.
It’s just something I feel I have to acknowledge, as much as I’d like to see both kinds of these threads just disappear sometimes.
Sometimes though, what God calls one to do is neither fun or pretty. That’s pretty much the only reason I don’t speak against threads like this.