[Russell Scott]

I grew up in the Catholic church, and didn't have a clue who Jesus was until I accepted him as my personal Lord and Savior at 19. Not during my 15 years in the Catholic church did they once give an altar call. I find the whole organization sadly lacking in even the fundamentals taught in the Bible. Any organization that doesn't "walk in the Holy Spirit, is going to fulfill the lusts of the flesh." In my opinion, the Catholic church has replaced Christ with a bunch of ritualistic nonsense.

Read Matthew 23, I believe quite of few of the Master's words were directed at large religious organizations like the Catholic church.

[Shethink13]

I grew up in the Catholic church, and didn't have a clue who Jesus was until I accepted him as my personal Lord and Savior at 19.

I believe that is YOUR fault, not the Catholic Church's. You must not have paid very close attention in CCD.

[Unam Sanctam]

I grew up in the Catholic church, and didn't have a clue who Jesus was until I accepted him as my personal Lord and Savior at 19. Not during my 15 years in the Catholic church did they once give an altar call.

If you had no idea who Jesus was after going to church for 19 years, then all I can say is that you must have been mighty wilfully inattentive all that time. If you were so inattentive as to not listen to the Gospel being proclaimed nor acknowledge the offering of the Eucharist, then obviously you have no knowledge of the Catholic Church and are in no position to judge her. Furthermore, I don't believe an "altar call" is required by the Bible.

[Salvation]

No Jesus when you attended the Catholic Church?

Sorry, Buddy, there always has been. Don't you remember the readings: the Gospels telling about Jesus' life, the letters of St. Paul -- usually the second reading -- instructing the communities that he was going out to in the beliefs of Christ, and the first reading, usually from the Old Testament, many of them prophecies about the coming of Jesus Christ????????