I know a few too that I consider friend. An honest broker I can respect even if we differ. Being lied to about beliefs that we clearly know exist, just are an afront to anyone who is trying to carry on an honest conversation about truth. We are called to be instant in season and out to spread God’s Word. If it offends, then truth meters need to be checked. God’s Truth will stand, no matter how it is attacked. It will remain. that is our assurance. Maranatha! svitw
Bears repeating, and we ex-Catholics do know better. We know what the Catholic church teaches because we were raised and catechized in it. We know what other Catholics that we worked with, went to school with, had communion parties, confirmation parties, marriages, and funerals with believed because we talked about it. Some of us even have family members who were in the Catholic clergy and really KNOW what the Catholic church teaches.
And yet, we're told we are wrong by someone we don't know, using only a screen name, on an internet forum. And if I have to choose who I'm going to believe about what Catholicism teaches, who would I reasonably be expected to believe? The relatives who have no cause to lie to me? Or a screen name on an internet forum who won't back up what they say, but continually tells me that I'm wrong-even when I quote vatican.va, the Catholic church website itself (which BTW, verifies with what my Catholic clergy relatives themselves told me)?