Seriously...?
You are the one who says I am destined to hell because I did not belong to the "RC Church"
I can certainly understand if you think I am destined for "purgatory" (another Catholic fantasy) for my failure to bow to Rome, but to destined to hell even though I believe exactly as you do on the fundamental of the faith...minus being adherent to Rome
self-righteous: Yes
hypocritical: Yes.
The difference between you and myself is I think you are heaven bound even though we have theological difference, mostly minor... as opposed to you which is strident in my "lostness"
Yes seriously. The Catholic Church has taught in no uncertain terms that outside of her is no salvation, that’s one of the main reasons I became Catholic because I believed that. It would have been self-righteous of me to remain outside, it would have been hypocritical for me to remain outside. Now we have a pope saying “stay where you are” and I find that confusing and annoying. I could have saved my family a world of grief and agony if I’d just stuck it out 20 more years.
I brought my mother to tears when I told her I was entering the Catholic Church, my father didn’t speak to me for years. I gave up everything because I believed I had no choice if I wanted everlasting life and now pope Francis seems to be saying it was all for nothing.
My righteousness (such as it is) doesn’t come from me it’s entirely from God... as for hypocrisy, well, probably but I try to constantly remind myself that I am among the worst of sinners and my efforts are worthless outside of Christ.
I think you would say that anyone who rejects Christ is destined to hell, yes? I believe that part of rejecting Him is in rejecting His Church. You can’t have one without the other.