The Devil is, as we know, quite familiar with Scripture and hellaciously canny about using it to his own purposes.
He knows "I will strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter," and knows how to use it with scathing success, as various FReeper Catholic AWOL's illustrate.
It's paradoxical, but true, that as soon as there's an actual painful struggle, soldiers would feel justified in leaving their post.
If the person is a good Catholic, it's hard to see how they are actually improving, defending or purifying the Church by leaving her.
Let's pry for each other. God knows I need it.
True believers understand the churches today do not represent nor teach what Jesus intended....the catholic church is certainly no exemption. There's a reason the body of Christ is said to go ‘underground’ as the truth and gospel message is lost among the rubble of false teachings and worldliness.."For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths."