[metmom]

Let’s look at antagonism on this thread....

From the beginning of the article....

“So, once again, for my readers who believe Catholicism is false:
Did you ever ask yourself why you hate Catholicism so much?”

Antagonism right out of the gate. Attacking non-Catholics with a falsehood that they *hate* Catholicism as if it were true and then asking why they do what they are falsely accused of.

It falls into the *Have you stopped beating your wife yet?* category.

[Salvation]

Did you ever ask yourself why you hate Catholicism so much? Who taught me what I think I know about the Catholic Church? Is what I was taught true? Have I looked at what the Catholic Church has to say about itself, using official resources such as the Catechism of the Catholic Church and papal encyclicals? Could my opinion of the Catholic Church possibly be based on bias, bigotry, bad history, propaganda from the secular media, or the bad priests who get publicity (i.e., the sick, and sickening, pedophile priests or those certain heretical modernist priests the secular media love to give press to)? Is it fair to judge doctrine by such things? Is any group with human beings in it free from sin and scandal? If I am wrong about the Catholic Church, what does that mean?

The author was not making antagonistic statements. Please read it again......all he did was ask questions.....a lot of them.

Just questions.....I'm sorry you took them to be antagonistic; I think the author meant for people to do some real soul-searching.

It appears that did not happen, but people jumped to the defensive rather than be honest with themselves and answer the questions.

Yes, I agree it would be a challenge to answer each one of them. But isn't that what the author intended? Seems to me that was his purpose in writing the entire article.