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To: Genoa

“This is like pointing out all the stars who are Scientologists. So what?”

No. The “so what” is that these Protestant ministers know their Protestant faiths (despite other Protestants claiming otherwise) and they risk everything to become Catholics while there are few “notable” Catholics who become Protestants and those who do are either breaking a vow or are lay people who seem terribly catechized in the Catholic faith.


39 posted on 05/31/2014 4:44:05 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998; Genoa
“This is like pointing out all the stars who are Scientologists. So what?”

No. The “so what” is that these Protestant ministers know their Protestant faiths (despite other Protestants claiming otherwise) and they risk everything to become Catholics while there are few “notable” Catholics who become Protestants and those who do are either breaking a vow or are lay people who seem terribly catechized in the Catholic faith.

You make a much too simplistic argument to rationalize why there ARE more Roman Catholics converting to the Evangelical Protestant side that the reverse. History is replete with examples of this. This very site is replete with them. Those who care enough about their faith to participate on these Religion Forum threads - that far too often, sadly, become sectarian wars - are not ashamed to explain why this conversion was necessary AND valid in our lives.

There is much hypocrisy by Catholics who gleefully celebrate "Protestants" converting to Catholicism but then denigrate any Catholic who goes the other way. It only further confirms some Catholics inability to face reality. To explain away genuine conversion as, "either breaking a vow or are lay people who seem terribly catechized in the Catholic faith", fails to take into account the millions who HAVE left for reasons not at all relegated to those narrow few explanations. Each and every soul is precious to our Lord Jesus Christ and I KNOW He is far more concerned with the condition of ones heart than with what label they identify.

I imagine there will be - at least I hope there will - many surprised Catholics who not only find themselves immediately at the foot of the throne of Christ in heaven when they die but joined by the millions of NON-Catholic believers there with them rejoicing in the God of our salvation.

68 posted on 05/31/2014 7:29:55 PM PDT by boatbums (Proud member of the Free Republic Bible Thumpers Brigade.)
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