Like a slave brand you get when you're a baby?
So Catholicism requires no understanding or agreement as an adult. You know, even the mob doesn't go that far - you have to voluntarily join them before they won't let you go.
You are utterly clueless to how creepy, and how profoundly insulting, what you said is. To claim the very soul of a human being through something done to them as a baby, and to smugly insist it can never be gotten rid of as an adult, is monstrous.
Its also a farce by mind control freaks that offends God himself. God gives free will, but baby-snatching Catholics claim to kill that in the first months of life. Then they can treat the person as having "left" something they never agreed to in the first place. What utter mind rape.
Disgusting.
Not a brand. It is on your soul, put there by the Father Son and Holy Spirit. I don’t see why you would call that disgusting.
The same thing happens at Confirmation and at a priest’s ordination — Holy Orders.
They are spiritual marks that are there forever.
No its not disgusting. You have badly misunderstood. Baptism is a sacrament. If you choose to return you don’t need to be re-baptized. That’s all there is to it. Of course, you have atheists and agnostic and even as the write proclaims he was anti-Catholic. If he/she should return they just don’t need to be re-baptized. No more, no less. On the other hand if non-Catholics like Laura Ingraham, Judge Bork, Judge Thomas, Robert Novak, Bobby Jindal, Tony Blair, G.K. Chesterton “as an adult” wishes to convert to Catholicism, then baptism is a necessity.
I haven’t read through the entire thread, nor have I yet read replies to your post. But I’d like to clarify something here.
Catholicism does require understanding and agreement as an adult (or older child). Babies born to Catholics are typically baptized as babies, but as they get older they move into the Sacrament of Reconciliation, their First Communion and then finally into Confirmation. Children take catechism classes that teach what the Church and the collect believe. I’ve taught some of these classes myself. Confirmation is a public affirmation of belief and agreement.
That’s as straight-forward as I can be without more coffee :)
I agree wholeheartedly. And they wonder why so many consider it a cult.
I would argue that your post is what is disgusting.
In fact, "becoming Catholic" IS very much a damnable system of heresy, evidenced by the very high numbers of its professors and nominal adherents who indulge in the most egregious evil and apostasy in society not only with impunity, but with effective encouragement. Many, if not most, radical modern liberals who profess any religious affiliation find themselves comfortably at home in the Roman Catholic cult unmolested, enjoying cover from the multitude of like-minded priests, bishops and even cardinals among their ranks. The current pope is enjoying enormous, almost ecstatic adulation from the most ungodly and unrepentant in society. What should that tell us?