Syncro:
The tactics I use have nothing to do with Mormons. The tactics of most of the FR Prots here reflect a pack of wolf mentality. It is very seldom a discussion with one or two people can stay as such as eventually one of the FR Prots will ping a litany and all of a sudden you have a pack mentality.
Most of these FR Prots will not tell you what church they go to because in the end, one will find that most of them belong to unaffiliated rural protest sects with bubba smith jones as pastor and his wife Sister Ethel. And the sum of their theology if what Pastor Bubba Bob Jones and SIster Ethel say complimented by their own reading of scripture. The Mormons and JW you cite again were from American Protestantism and come out of a sola scriptura framework where each read the bible for their own and came to theology of their own.
My Catholic faith is my own but it is the faith of those that came well before. The Nicene and Apostles Creed are what I confess because it was what 4th century Catholics confessed, of which Saint Jerome and Saint Augustine where part of, and in the case of the Apostles Creed, it in fact can be traced to around 200AD as the Baptismal Creed of the Church of Rome, per Saint Hippolytus of Rome’s writings.
The Orthodox and Catholics are not protestants, they are at best in a schism.
As for who Mormons find easy picking for their faith, first off, there are over 1 Billion Catholics so in % terms, they may get not even 1% of Catholics to join their crazy sect.
And I did not blame the KKK on every Protestant, I said it came out of certain segments of American Protestantism and I said it is possible, maybe probable, that there some o those types here on FR. That is just conjecture and I made no claims that it was a statement of fact. However, it is an historical fact that the KKK came out of American Protestantism. Furthermore, Mormonism and the JW are creations of American religious Capitalism and those 2 are products of American Protestantism.
The only forms of Protestantism that have any connection to historic Roman-Latin Christianity are the ones from Western Europe, that would be the Anglican-Church of England, the Lutherans from Germany and the Reformed-Presbyterian tradition. Indirectly, the Methodist and Baptist are connected as both of those are evangelical-puritan offshoots from the Church of England, for the most part.
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