[Mad Dawg]

These were not odd isolated people who thought like this. It was the VAST majority of a large population.

I take it you interviewed every one of them (so that you KNEW what they thought, rather than just assuming they thought what your parents thought), collated your data, filtered it for education and years spent studying theology, and in general made sure it was representative of the Holy Church throughout all the world.

You did make SURE your date was representative right? You wouldn't decide an organization was thoroughly wrong without scrupulous study, would you?

[metmom]

I didn’t need to interview them. They were plenty vocal about their beliefs without being asked for their opinion.

How they felt was no mystery, just as it isn’t here.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I take it you interviewed every one of them (so that you KNEW what they thought, rather than just assuming they thought what your parents thought), collated your data, filtered it for education and years spent studying theology, and in general made sure it was representative of the Holy Church throughout all the world. You did make SURE your date was representative right? You wouldn't decide an organization was thoroughly wrong without scrupulous study, would you?

LOL. How much error does one have to understand and witness before one decides to shake the dust from their feet and go elsewhere?

"Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?" -- 1 Corinthians 5:6

Salvation does not require a Ph.D. It requires God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone, received by a mind renewed by the Holy Spirit and a repentant heart of flesh made sorrowful in the knowledge of its sins against the Triune God.

It just doesn't take a lot to realize Rome is heading in the wrong direction...