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To: Alex Murphy
"Can you substantiate your claims of Protestant service attendance, and the amount of scripture read therein?"

Of course I can or I wouldn't have said it. I have attended many Lutheran services while growing up. My mother was a Lutheran who converted to Catholicism and I attended Lutheran services frequently with my cousins. While in high school I dated a Methodist girl for well over a year and attended services with her frequently (after serving Mass at an earlier service). While stationed at Ft. Bragg I often attended a Baptist church in Fayetteville with friends. In Vietnam I attended services as often as I could and didn't care what denomination they were.

There was Scripture read at all of them, but nowhere near the amount read at a catholic Mass.

1,544 posted on 12/08/2010 12:05:05 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law
Of course I can or I wouldn't have said it. I have attended many Lutheran services while growing up. My mother was a Lutheran who converted to Catholicism and I attended Lutheran services frequently with my cousins. While in high school I dated a Methodist girl for well over a year and attended services with her frequently (after serving Mass at an earlier service). While stationed at Ft. Bragg I often attended a Baptist church in Fayetteville with friends. In Vietnam I attended services as often as I could and didn't care what denomination they were. There was Scripture read at all of them, but nowhere near the amount read at a catholic Mass.

That's what you call "substantiating your story"? What part of these unsubstantiated, anecdotal, subjective private recollections do you consider to have "substantiated" your claim? Frankly, you've given me no reason as yet to take you at your word for anything. Am I supposed to believe that you actually kept notes of all the scriptures read, cited, or referenced in every service you attended since childhood, and that you saved them to compare to your Catholic experiences later? Am I supposed to believe that your personal recollections (assuming they are true) are indicative of every Protestant worship service that took place worldwide over the last half-century?

1,570 posted on 12/08/2010 12:33:45 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed, he's hated on seven continents")
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