LOLOL. These dumb excuses get more outlandish as time goes by.
The real reason in staring them in the face. The RCC is a top-down authoritarian hierarchy that tells its members what to do and not to think for themselves.
Exactly like Communism.
The real story is that truly conservative Roman Catholics are becoming Protestants. For every one Protestant in the U.S. who leaves his faith, four Roman Catholics leave theirs. And considering Protestants outnumber Roman Catholics by more than two to one, that is an astounding percentage of RCs leaving Rome for the truth of the Gospel.
“The real story is that truly conservative Roman Catholics are becoming Protestants.”
I am a truly conservative Catholic. That’s why I’m registered on Free Republic-—I am a true conservative. I’m also Catholic.
I also know many, many Catholics who are true conservatives. And those are just the ones I know personally.
That’s why I consider posts of this type to be more like “drive-by” comments that generalize and then treat such generalizations as a universal truth-—(such as “the real story”).
I'll bet that you cannot name five truly conservative Roman Catholics who are becoming Protestants. Real people that is, not the fantasies that began with the Reformation and continue to this day.
Now that Catholics are established by several recent polls to be at the highest percentage of the American population they have ever been in the country's history and ever increasing, and the numbers of Protestants (at least the ones who believe in the Christian God) are declining at an even greater rate, when will you be changing your unsupported tune?
As for the Gospel, we Christians continue to follow the Gospel of Jesus; not a made up fantasy which puts the Gospel of Jesus for the Jews only, and snippets of Paul and Isaiah make up a doctrine that would be laughingly silly if it weren't so tragic.