[SamuraiScot]

After all, would you expect him to say anything less after making his "conversion"?

I agree that you would expect him to say such things after his conversion. But a little curiosity might be in order as to why he converted. He did so at great cost to his very successful career—it destroyed it, as he knew it would. And of course he lost most of his friends. He had to start his life over again, which he did with both fear and joy. What did he discover that was so compelling?

But as a current seminary student, who has done a little informal research on early church history

Godspeed in that, and may it lead to closer to Him, by the path He decides.

I do recommend you check out a few titles by Scott Hahn, a gifted orator who was once a firebrand anti-Catholic evangelical, although personally quite mild-mannered. I met him on a Catholic retreat, when he thinking about converting. He soon did.

[TheBattman]

I agree that you would expect him to say such things after his conversion. But a little curiosity might be in order as to why he converted. He did so at great cost to his very successful career—it destroyed it, as he knew it would. And of course he lost most of his friends. He had to start his life over again, which he did with both fear and joy. What did he discover that was so compelling?

The same could be said in history of people converting FROM Catholicism to other faiths - take particular note of the Ana-Baptists.

I will take you up on the subject/person to check out when I return from vacation.