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To: netmilsmom

Yup. Like I said. Church shopping, for various reasons.
None of the responses disproves my contention. You all
never admit the truth about this.


160 posted on 10/22/2009 6:14:14 PM PDT by Bainbridge
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To: Bainbridge
You all never admit the truth about this.

Well, in the same usage, I'll say many Protestants "never" learn how to make a distinction or to tell between valid and invalid distinctions.

I maintain that, as I said, there's something the same and something "other". The same is the shopping, the "other" is remaining within a denomination. There are important differences between, say Baptists and Presbyterians or between either of them and Episcopalians. But I have known people to float from one of these denominations to another because of the preacher or the music or whatever. I would venture to guess that there are few Catholics (on a percentage basis) who float from the Catholic Church to the Baptist and back again on such grounds. So it's a significantly different KIND of Church shopping. I can agree that there is Church Shopping, but not that it is exactly like Protestant Church Shopping

162 posted on 10/22/2009 6:46:12 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin: pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Bainbridge

>>You all never admit the truth about this.<<

Who’s “You all”?
Maybe you don’t know a lot of Catholics, but everyone I know admits to it. We don’t like a parish, we find another.

See, the liturgy is the same (mostly) wherever we go. So we shop for the community. Except in the case of an ultra-lib parish. There, the liturgy has so much innovation, is can border on bizarre.

Parish shopping is not a secret.


163 posted on 10/22/2009 7:18:17 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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