They just follow the herd. I laugh anytime I hear self-righteous non-Catholics brag about how the think for themselves.
I’ve studied marketing an persuasion on the graduate level, and it’s a proven fact that people believe what those around them do.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am NOT impressed.
FWIW, all that marketing stuff is WASTED on me. I don't give a rip what people around me think. I don't do what everyone else is doing just because everyone else is doing it.
Matter of fact, the fastest way to get me to not do something is to tell me *everybody* is doing it.
It's really too bad you couldn't get a real degree to earn a real living.
FOTFOL!
That's the best laugh I've had in a long time. Thanks.
Protestants are the majority in America, so any Catholic who joins them is just following the crowd.
If I believed as those around me do, I'd still be Catholic. Protestantism may be the majority religion for the nation as a whole, but in the area I grew up in, it was not. I grew up in a heavily Catholic area, predominantly Catholic, actually.
Dream on, but if it makes you feel better than everyone else to think so, just go right ahead. Enjoy your delusion. You apparently majored in it.
LOL!!!!
Anyone can lie with statistics.
How to Lie with Statistics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics
http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728
Notice how they think the ‘worldly’ view of things - can be applied to the supernatural. They demonstrate over and over the TRUTH that a ‘natural man’ - one without the Spirit - CANNOT understand the things of God. They are clueless to the core.
Metmon says: “I don’t give a rip what people around me think.”
And then pings:
1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; count-your-change; ...
Yeah, right.
Same here. Claim “everybody is doing it” and I will investigate long and hard. After bragging that the CC is the largest and longest lasting it rang pretty hollow to claim “follow the crowd” for Protestants. Then one has to wonder which of the 20,000 different denominations they think is the “crowd”.
I hear that!
Romans 12:2 - And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
"If I believed as those around me do, I'd still be Catholic."
If I believed as those around me do,I wouldn't believe.
When I contemplate that,I can't help but think God is effecting a sort of slow-motion miracle within me.What a humbling thing that should be! I can hardly believe that I believe what I believe! God is unfathomably good!
/rant 8-)