You know, the contempt you display towards non-Catholics and those you disparagingly call *failed Catholics* does nothing to convince anyone to come to the Catholic Church or come back to the Catholic church.
On the contrary, all it does, especially for those of us who have left, is show us that nothing has changed about it and reinforce our decision to leave in the first place.
Your decision to leave the Catholic Church and not return has been reinforced by Natural Law?
And the downside of that is...?
Just for the record, I’d rather be a “failed Catholic” than unsaved.
Contempt? Don't flatter yourself. Disapproval is a description.
Unlike Protestants I am not called to proselytize and appeal to the vanity of the non-believers and you what you want to hear to get you to follow my particular version of the Word. I am only called to speak the truth which I have done.
On the contrary, all it does, especially for those of us who have left, is show us that nothing has changed about it and reinforce our decision to leave in the first place.
There's a website called "Adherents.com" and on it they have a section of FAMOUS CATHOLICS
Hilariously, many of the names there are no longer Roman Catholic. But even worse than that is the way some are portrayed.
Case in point: actor Stephen Baldwin, Alex's brother who left Catholicism and is now a fervent and well-known born-again Evangelical.
But when you highlight his name on the website, here's Baldwin's description...
STEPHEN BALDWIN is a Catholic and identifies himself as a "born-again Christian."
LOL. According to Rome, he's still a "Catholic" who merely misnames himself. Temporarily, no doubt.