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To: ebb tide; Gamecock; metmom; daniel1212; BlueDragon
It’s hardly surprising that the election of Latin America’s Pope Francis has focused more attention on Latin American Catholicism since the debates about liberation theology which shook global Christianity in the 1970s and 1980s. The sad irony, however, is that this renewed attention is highlighting something long known to many Catholics but which non-Catholics are now becoming more cognizant: that Latin America’s identity as a “Catholic continent” is fading and has been doing so for some time. By that I don’t mean that most Latin Americans no longer identify as Catholic. That’s still the case. Indeed, in many countries south of the Rio Grande, it remains overwhelming true. But what’s clear is that Catholicism’s ability to shape Latin America’s religious context is in decline....

....the survey also states that Evangelicals are generally more committed to a life of prayer, regular worship, and other church-based activities than even church-going Catholics.

May God bring this kind of problem to every country!

8 posted on 12/08/2014 5:01:08 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Alex Murphy
.the survey also states that Evangelicals are generally more committed to a life of prayer, regular worship, and other church-based activities than even church-going Catholics. May God bring this kind of problem to every country!

But they are the ones relegated to being "deficient in grace," mainly the Catholic RP, which they think they obtain spiritual life from, while few truly have been born again, and realized its profound changes in heart and life.

9 posted on 12/08/2014 6:03:43 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: Alex Murphy

>>....the survey also states that Evangelicals are generally more committed to a life of prayer, regular worship, and other church-based activities than even church-going Catholics.<<

The muslims are generally more committed to a life of prayer and regular worship to their false god, than evangelicals.

What’s your point?


14 posted on 12/08/2014 7:43:22 PM PST by ebb tide
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