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To: annalex

As if there are not well informed Catholics who leave the church and find they have a better relationship with Christ elsewhere.


55 posted on 04/09/2008 9:33:48 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: Always Right

I never read a convincing Protestant conversion story. The template is always

— The Catholic Church does not teach from scripture
— I was told that rituals and rules save me
— Now I have a personal relationship with Jesus and read the Bible.

A well-informed Catholic will never say such dreck. Sure people leave: the Church is an early-medieval countercultural, terribly demanding institution, while Protestantism caters to the modern middle class with utter servility.

But my point was much simpler than that — you said that the Church cannot change people’s minds and the presence of informed converts demonstrates otherwise.


56 posted on 04/09/2008 9:44:49 AM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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