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To: boatbums
Let me just ask you this, you too, Mark, what is so difficult to believe about someone being a Roman Catholic and deciding that it was not for them? Is it impossible to imagine that once a person knows Roman Catholicism - and knows it well - that they could honestly leave it and still be a Christian?

Extremely far fetched, certainly. Impossible? That's for the Lord to Judge. My main point, though is that so many claim to be ex Catholics, even to the point of teaching the Faith, and yet post time after time gross caricatures to the point of falsification. What would you think, given the opposite circumstances.

Look at the converts to the Faith that post on here. Do you hear ex Anglicans bash the Anglican faith? Lutherans? Can you point out one ex Protestant convert to the Faith who bashes and posts caricatures to the point of falsification of their former faith, making up all kinds of stuff? I don't see the ex Mormons on FR doing that either when talking to current Mormons (and yes I am a part time Flying Inman).

Why resort to calling people, who admit they were once Roman Catholics, dishonest and liars? I realize that this particular thread has been a knockout, drag out battle royale, but are such accusations coming from that bloodied field or do you really believe none of us are being truthful? Time to clear some air.

There is an individual here, very anti Catholic, who claims to have been Catholic that has never to my knowledge posted one truth about the Faith, other than spelling the name correctly every so often. How would you take that individual?

2,954 posted on 12/06/2011 10:41:37 AM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr

Some here think it gives them some sort of credibility when they criticize the Church, to claim to have been members in the past.

They trumpet, “I saw the light, now I know the truth” and it’s as phony as a three dollar bill. They cannot even describe the Church accurately, have no idea about scripture in the mass, never knew Catholic teaching about Mary, and claim that the Bible is their sole authority. Those people were never Catholic. You can say it’s midnight at noon, doesn’t mean anyone with eyesight will believe it.


2,956 posted on 12/06/2011 10:51:50 AM PST by Judith Anne (For rhe sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us, and on the whole world.)
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