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Is the prayer the Hail Mary ever said in the name of Jesus, or for that matter any Catholic prayer?

Good grief. And you claim to once have been Catholic???

As a Catholic, surely you must have said the Ave Maria (Hail Mary). This prayer is all about Jesus. Do the words "blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus." mean anything to you at all? How about "holy Mary, mother of God"? This is proclaiming that Jesus was God even before his human birth.

As far as your comment "or for that matter, any Catholic prayer" did you not once attend Mass (and pay attention)? How many times are the words "through Jesus Christ, our Lord" proclaimed at the end the Liturgical prayers?

I'm beginning to believe that supposedly former Catholics know even less about Catholicism than those who have never been. I can understand how fundamentalists get the wrong impressions of Catholicism if they base their understanding on that of former Catholics now in their midst.

First off, I think most of these "former" Catholics are full of BS, right off the bat. Most of them were never Catholics.

Its a classic propoganda tactic, kind of like when Liberals disrupt this board and post things that mirror their stereotypical version of conservatism, and then turn around and say "See, I told you those conservatives were all racists!"

I've seen this done by Jehovah's Witnesses myself. Someone will go on som board and defend the JWs by saying "I'm not a JW (they never state what their actual religion is) but I've never met a more pious, kind, or God-fearing group of folks. They gave me a free copy of their New World Translation (a highly tainted translation) of the Bible and might I say, it is the greatest version I've ever read." I mean, its prety obvious what that person really is.

Second, let's assume some of these people actually are former Catholics. All of them said they never read their bible, never attended Mass, never did this, never did that.... Wait, so its our fault or the Church's fault that they were sh!tty Catholics?