Have gone onto check about Cafeteria Catholics, Gays hammering away at the Church? Feminists wanting women priests? I was assuming you weren’t living under a rock. The Protestant Churches with some 35, 000 varied beliefs have all fallen into disrepute with the ordination of gays, lesbians, married women… the list of doctrinal perfidy is endless.
What a boatload of carp! When are FRoman Catholics here going to get tired of using these inane and easily debunked accusations against "Protestants"? It's as if everyone who isn't a Roman Catholic, but who nonetheless claims to be a follower of Jesus Christ, gets tossed into the imaginary pile yet their equally imaginary "perfect" religion gets placed on a pedestal as the shining exemplar of everything Jesus intended His church to be. All the perfidities get swept under the rug which has gotten MIGHTY lumpy over the centuries. There remain plenty of God-fearing, doctrinally sound NON-Catholic Christian assemblies out there in the world - as God has ALWAYS kept apart a remnant. Shall I educate you on the endless list of disrepute in the Catholic Church still available to the honest seeker - that even the Catholic Church in all her temporal might couldn't eradicate?
The Christian community has ALWAYS had to deal with false teachers, impure seducers, demons posing as minsters of righteousness, pretend shepherds who leave the flock to the mercy of wolves, they are springs without water, they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity. Those who are Christ's are aware of this and the Holy Spirit preserves us from their error when we flee to Him.
Now it's *cafeteria Catholics*?
Which is it?
The Protestant Churches with some 35, 000 varied beliefs have all fallen into disrepute with the ordination of gays, lesbians, married women… the list of doctrinal perfidy is endless.
Not any which follow Scripture. The denominations which do those things are also the ones which have ABANDONED Scripture as the Truth and the word of God.
They fall into that error because they AREN'T based on Scripture any more.
Interestingly, I note that the Episcopalian church, which does ordain gays and women, is also the same denomination which the Catholic church will accept into ITS priesthood.
Not to mention with the number of Catholic priests who admit to being gay themselves, no Catholic is in any position whatsoever, to point any fingers about gay clergy.
It is completely irrelevant whether the men is ordained being knowingly gay or is allowed to remain in the priesthood after being found out to be gay, which the Catholic church allows for.
No non-Catholic denomination that I've ever encountered which has clergy who are involved in immorality, allows that minister to remain credentialed and in the pulpit. So number of denominations notwithstanding, those many denominations are doing a better job of cleaning house than the one Roman Catholic church.