Daily, in three languages, with patristic commentary. Why do you think I despise the Protestant heresies so much?
1) Protestants do not believe heresies.
2) "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" - Isaiah 5:20
1. La-T-Da! Whooooop-T-Dooooooooooo! I'd rather a childlike understanding and application of a verse or 3 in mangled Swahili connecting intimately with God than a unanimous encyclical by the power-mongering magicsterical in 12 languages.
Why do you despise the TRUTHS OF GOD expressed by Proddys?
2.0 Hard to guess . . . Perhaps . . . most plausibly . . .
2.1 Because of childhood rearing and conditioning and/or
2.2 Sociological adulthood rearing and conditioning and/or
2.3 Successful seductions by satan into the heresies, mangled history, mangled 'Bible,' and mangled daffynitions of the Vatican system. . . . and/or
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2.4 A PERSONAL fascination with ritual, pomp & circumstance, !!!!TRADITION!!!! and a flesh-driven comforting of childhood insecurities by such tangible RITUALS, WORKS ORIENTED !RELIGION! VS RELATIONSHIP and/or
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2.5 the daunting risk of FAITH ALONE TRUSTING GOD ALONE ABSENT THE SLOGGING IT OUT EARNING ONE'S OWN SALVATION THE VATICAN WAY. and/or
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2.6 The self-aggrandizing, self-congratulatory, self-righteousness boost from the efforts to PERFECT ONE'S SELF BY RELIGIOUS RITUALS AND DUTIES--particularly where one or both parents were overt or covert perfectionists. and/or
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2.7 Habitual people pleasing performance addictions again from childhood conditioning transferred in one's mind to God and the RELIGIOUS SYSTEM purported to represent God.
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for starters.