Christ said you can recognize a tree by its fruit.
The Catholic fruit from Rome at the time of reformation was stubborn lack of repentance that would make Pharaoh blush. Cruel torture and murder was how the Catholic leaders dealt with men like William Tyndale who gave his life to give common men access to the scriptures - something that would never have happened at all if there was no reformation.
It certainly appears that some Catholic promoters even on this forum would love to go back to the days when they could just burn the dissenters at the stake and be done with us.
The new world has been populated by Catholics and Protestants. Countries that have been dominated by Catholicism have turned more and more socialistic. The Protestants (who Catholics incidentally claim are in disagreement and thus prove to be in error) were able to work together and set aside denominational differences in order to form the Greatest Nation ever on this planet.
As Catholics grew in proportion to the population through immigration and are now the largest denomination of Christendom, this nation has experienced greater and greater evil. (Catholics represented less than 2% of the population when this nation formed and are now around 25%.)
Legislators like Nancy Pelosi are freely able to maintain a Catholic identity while promoting the most vile and immoral laws in the history of humanity. Most Evangelical congregations would excommunicate members who do such vile things.
Currently, the Supreme Court contains zero Evangelical Christians, but it does have Catholic representation. This has helped this nation not much more than if Satan worshipers filled those seats.
So, go ahead and mock true believers in Christ. His enemies openly mocked Him also. Fill up the shoes of your father.
Some of us will continue to regard Christ’s words above foolish, man-made traditions and rhetoric, and judge the tree by its fruit.
It certainly appears that some Catholic promoters even on this forum would love to go back to the days when they could just burn the dissenters at the stake and be done with us.
More than a few have expressed their admiration for, and a desire to bring back the Inquisitions.
It certainly appears that such feelings emanate from your side as well.
"Countries that have been dominated by Catholicism have turned more and more socialistic."
You mean countries like Great Britain (Protestant), Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark (all Protestant), South Africa (Protestant), the Netherlands, Germany...Most countries have socialist, regardless of religious identity.
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“Christ said you can recognize a tree by its fruit.”
You are darn right!
I got sick of the rotten fruit of the protestants!
I got sick of an incomplete bible
I got sick of a church had lacked the full sacraments.
I don’t like a church that does not have a service every day or is even open daily just for prayer.
I wanted a church that was 100% pro life although I must admit I did not know this at the time.
I got sick of a pastor who told me all other “churches” were going to hell that did not believe in our churches doctrine, yet refused to associate with those other churches because they did not have the same doctrine.
I got sick of the rich brats in our church always getting away with murder just cause their parents gave a lot of money to the church.
When I joined the Catholic church I was told:
How to “Get saved” the way the bible says to do it!
I was taught how hard it is to be a saint.
I was given a complete copy of the Bible not the one Martin Luther chopped up.
I was told why Mary is so important in all of this, and wow did that ever blow me away. Actually it turned me 100% prolife, something the protestants could never do, but that is another story.
I learned how to pray.
I have a church that has a service every day and is open for prayer.
What I have learned now as a Catholic is so far beyond what I ever learned in my former church.
The biggest thing I have learned is why you are the way you are. “Unless you drink my blood and eat my flesh you will not have life with in you”. You have no idea what that means but I do. Thank God now I do and it’s because of the Catholic Church, because the protestants sure never taught me that.
Agreed, the men that led us out of Rome warned us of this ...and now it is reality