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To: tanknetter
Personally, I don't care what the RC church, or any other church, wants.

I don't follow "a church". I follow God.

And the fact that this nation USED TO BE a "Christian" nation, but now Satanists feel free to mock God openly here, just shows how we as a nation, but also WE as Christians, have slid.

There are more people on this thread, squabbling over wafers and bread, than are concerned that Satan is going to be worshipped and exalted in a public square in this nation.

34 posted on 08/07/2014 11:47:40 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: mountn man
Personally, I don't care what the RC church, or any other church, wants.
I don't follow "a church". I follow God. And the fact that this nation USED TO BE a "Christian" nation, but now Satanists feel free to mock God openly here, just shows how we as a nation, but also WE as Christians, have slid.
There are more people on this thread, squabbling over wafers and bread, than are concerned that Satan is going to be worshipped and exalted in a public square in this nation.

We ALL follow God if we believe in God.
Catholics don't "follow a church" either. You don't seem to know a whole lot about Catholicism. If you did you wouldn't have said what you did.

Steve Ray USED to be a Baptist minister who believed that all us Catholics were going to hell. He sincerely wanted us Catholics NOT to go to hell. He was a good man.

SO, to try to change us Catholics and put us on the right path, he and his wife started reading about the Catholic Church. They knew that to change people they had to learn about them first. So, they read everything they could about the Catholic Church for an entire year!

One night both he and his wife (Janet) ended up weeping. Steve Ray said, and not in the most joyous voice: "We are Catholics!"

Since then he, his wife and his children have been practicing Catholics.

I met him and his wife on a tour (with a Presbyterian friend of mine, from Texas) to the Holy Land, in 2011, on a regular tour they do called: In the Footsteps of God. It was a fabulous tour.

Steve, being a former Baptist minister, was able to quote the Bible, chapter and verse, all through the trip, which made it extra nice for all of us.

He wrote his story called: CROSSING THE TIBER. It's a most interesting read for all Christians of whatever denomination.

Speaking of denominations, Wikipedia quotes some 41,000 different Protestant denominations. The Catholic Church lists only 30,000+ different Protestant denominations.
Which one of those denominations are you? I am not prying, just curious.

Side notes:
1. My wonderful Texas friend's oldest converted to Catholicism about 15 years ago. He (the convert) and I spoke at some length about that.
2. My Texas friend grew up a Baptist but where they moved to finally had no Baptist Church, so they changed to Presbyterianism.

40 posted on 08/08/2014 7:38:12 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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