The chip I have on my shoulder is you pretending to engage in a discussion when all you really want to do is spout your false ideas about what Catholics do and believe, and then listen to yourself knock down the straw men you have created.
then I submit that,...
I submit that when you pretend to know what Catholics believe and what Catholics do, you show how ignorant you are. When you refuse to take correction, to find out what they actually do believe and practice you show that your motives are, well, less than pure.
Truth is what is true in the heart,
Do you write for Hallmark? You've got a big seller with that one.
You are not interested in winning a poor lost soul over to the Catholic Church on this thread?
If I thought that there was an ounce of sincerity in any of your questions, and that they were not just a way for you to spread your complete and utterly false understanding of the Church and its beliefs and practices perhaps, but the few exchanges we've had I think this verse reflects my most appropriate course of action:
"And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you; going forth from thence, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony to them."
Mark 6.11
Yes, they are absolutely not pure, but I fished and you bit.
It was fun. Lighten up. All is well with the world and the environment.