Re : Post #5 ~ ...jammed a cracker down my throat along with some wine while babbling a bunch of nonsense in an extinct language. Yet there are those, including a rabidly Catholic brother in law, who think this makes me a catholic for life. ~
Sorry you were not man enough to move on, but if you may like it - or if you may not; if you were Baptized by a Catholic Priest on God’s Holy Altar, then you are - and ever shall be a Catholic.
Lighten up, Erik. Talk with your ‘rabid’ BIL & you may be surprised.
“but if you may like it - or if you may not; if you were Baptized by a Catholic Priest on God’s Holy Altar, then you are - and ever shall be a Catholic.”
I don’t think that supported by theology or by the catechism. Full rejection of that forced baptism does not make a person a catholic. It also is the position of islam.
Pure delusion. The clear requirement for baptism is repentant faith in the risen Lord Jesus to save you on His account, by His sinless shed blood, (Acts 2:38; 8:36,37) otherwise one only gets wet, which sprinkling an innocent morally incognizant infant does.
I did move on. That's why I'm not a catholic. And only a profoundly ignorant person would consider me a catholic forever. I suppose you believe that a person forced to convert to islam at the tip of a sword is forever a moslem. This is just one of the issues I have with catholicism. Zealots like you live in a sick, warped and twisted world of darkness. You're the one that needs help, not me. You need to see the light. I saw it a long time ago and moved forward.
“...God’s Holy Altar, then you are - and ever shall be a Catholic.”
No free will?
Just because your parents did(or had it done) something to you when you were a child makes you a Catholic forever? Are all circumcised men Jewish too? Please what kind of God do you worship?
Mind control; simple as that. Pouring water on any one's head makes them a part of nothing. There is no authority for it. It is a creation of men who seek to keep other men in bondage.
My rabidly catholic BIL and SIL vote straight line Democrat. When I asked how this was reconciled with their anti abortion stance, the response was that Republicans don't do enough to overturn abortion laws. How do I have a rational conversation with someone like that? We don't even talk politics because he and his wife go full-blown emotional every time. There is no rational discourse with people like that.