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Valid point, rewording the original post if you wish to delete the original (I think this version expresses my view far better too :) :

However, most Catholics I know act like the Catholics here...

you mean they have gotten so fed up of false accusations of what Catholics believe and they rigourously defend The Church?

you know what's strange -- I was a very luke-warm Catholic until I started looking into the FR religious forum. When I started seeing all the accusations made about The Church, I looked up, read The Bible in more depth again and again and found those accusations false. Then I saw posters post things like "And this in the face of the fact that worldwide there are people who are demon-possessed, worshippers of unclean things still standing at the front of altars controlled by the “SEE”, opening their mouths and having something called “His Body” put in their mouths every Sunday morning." and things that say that the Pope is a Nazi and things that are from blogs portrayed as Church websites and I asked myself "why do they attack The Church with:
1. incorrect statements
2.Statements, links etc. that can be easily verified as false

And I realised that they have either been misled by their teachers (which is the overwhelming majority of the cases, I believe) or they are there to make Catholics stronger in their faith.

So posters like you, Quix, Dr. Eckleburg; Iscool, etc. have actually made us Catholics stronger in our beliefs as you have pointed out how true our beliefs ARE (by your posts which supposedly say what our beliefs are, but are incorrect and force us to learn more about our faith) and have shown us how The Church is guided by God.

And Catholics outside this website are now learning more about what They believe and are no longer being led astray by Jimmy Swaggert-esque bouffants, but KNOW the little lies (like "Easter" supposedly being related to 'Eostre' -- completely forgetting that in other languages, like Polish, it isn't called Easter, but "Great Night" or Pascha) that are used to led people away from The Church.

We also KNOW that our beliefs are not man-made. If a historical Pope was bad, or some priests were bad that doesn't have an impact on The Church, on our beliefs or doctrine. In contrast, any mega-c crumbles when the errors of it's "preacher" are pointed out -- because THAT is man-made.

The attacks on Christ's bride, have only made Her stronger.

So, in conclusion, you seem to be an instrument that is strengthening the beliefs of Catholics in this little small part of the world that is the FR religion forum.

Valid point, rewording the original post if you wish to delete the original (I think this version expresses my view far better too :) :

However, most Catholics I know act like the Catholics here...

you mean they have gotten so fed up of false accusations of what Catholics believe and they rigourously defend The Church?

you know what's strange -- I was a very luke-warm Catholic until I started looking into the FR religious forum. When I started seeing all the accusations made about The Church, I looked up, read The Bible in more depth again and again and found those accusations false. Then I saw posters post things like "And this in the face of the fact that worldwide there are people who are demon-possessed, worshippers of unclean things still standing at the front of altars controlled by the “SEE”, opening their mouths and having something called “His Body” put in their mouths every Sunday morning." and things that say that the Pope is a Nazi and things that are from blogs portrayed as Church websites and I asked myself "why do they attack The Church with:
1. incorrect statements
2.Statements, links etc. that can be easily verified as false

And I realised that they have either been misled by their teachers (which is the overwhelming majority of the cases, I believe) or they are there to make Catholics stronger in their faith.

So posters like you, Quix, Dr. Eckleburg; Iscool, etc. have actually made us Catholics stronger in our beliefs as you have pointed out how true our beliefs ARE (by your posts which supposedly say what our beliefs are, but are incorrect and force us to learn more about our faith) and have shown us how The Church is guided by God.

And Catholics outside this website are now learning more about what they believe and are no longer being led astray by Jimmy Swaggert-esque bouffants, but KNOW the little lies (like "Easter" supposedly being related to 'Eostre' -- completely forgetting that in other languages, like Polish, it isn't called Easter, but "Great Night" or Pascha) that are used to led people away from The Church.

We also KNOW that our beliefs are not man-made. If a historical Pope was bad, or some priests were bad that doesn't have an impact on The Church, on our beliefs or doctrine. In contrast, any mega-c crumbles when the errors of it's "preacher" are pointed out -- because THAT is man-made.

So, in conclusion, you seem to be an instrument that is strengthening the beliefs of Catholics in this little small part of the world that is the FR religion forum.
The attacks on Christ's bride, have only made Her stronger.