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To: boatbums
"Seriously, NL, that's the best you can do, presume I don't understand something?

Seriously, no. In response to your assertion that Catholics are mindless and do not know or desire to know God and the truth I merely suggested that it might be because you do not understand Catholicism. In light of your indignant response I am more convinced than ever that I was right. Perhaps you might understand better if you spent more time trying to know and understand God and less time trying to prove the Church wrong.

Peace be with you

78 posted on 11/04/2012 6:53:26 AM PST by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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To: Natural Law
Seriously, no. In response to your assertion that Catholics are mindless and do not know or desire to know God and the truth I merely suggested that it might be because you do not understand Catholicism. In light of your indignant response I am more convinced than ever that I was right. Perhaps you might understand better if you spent more time trying to know and understand God and less time trying to prove the Church wrong.

I get the impression from your posts that you only permit yourself to read a portion of another's post until you get to a part you can nitpick from which to glean offense and then cease to look any further for either intent or context. I get this impression because I did not assert here nor anywhere else - indignant or otherwise - that "Catholics are mindless and do not know or desire to know God and the truth". I merely quoted your own Catechism that showed my point that "faithful" Catholics are expected to give "obedience of faith" to all that is passed down to them from their hierarchy. You seem to be unable to dispute that so you resort to ridicule and wagging your finger in my face to mind my own business and take care of my own spiritual life.

The funny thing is, this is an OPEN Religion Forum where a thread was posted praising the wonders of Purgatory. Yet when someone who disagrees with this dogma dares to state why he does so, he is met with blatant bigotry and self-righteousness. I believe on this issue that the Catholic Church is WRONG and it is really too bad that this bothers you. There is nothing that I don't understand about Catholicism and that same old ragged excuse is tedious and ineffective. Perhaps it would help your own spiritual life if you spent more time in the Bible and less time carrying around that persecution chip on your shoulder here.

81 posted on 11/04/2012 10:30:38 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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