Speaking to your point regarding illiteracy even Catholic illiteracy...you may have a point. There-fore all illiterate Catholics should at least get into a Southern Baptist Sunday School even if they still want to get to Mass. Take the first thru 5th grade classes...bible memorization of key verses and stories are highly stressed and they’ll get more unfettered Bible info there then in any Catechism classes which do require a high degree of literacy!
You have done a great FREEPER service by pointing out how vulnerable illiterate folks are to the manipulations of Churches who don’t have the full Gospel in mind and heart and in the process make their illiterate parishioners thrice damned more then the priests of these benighted sheep themselves!
It was for that reason that Bibles were printed in the vernacular tongues and were used as early reading primers for children....especially in the settler/pioneer days of early North America!
The illiterate are easily hoodwinked and controlled which is why social psychopaths in the leadership of the governments and mainline liberal churches work real hard to keep them that way.
Yeah, like cults. Manson and others did that.
I'd like to make a couple points from my own experience with the RCC.
As I've said before, everyone in my greater family was a DEVOUT Catholic. The Bible was more like a furnishing in their houses - not used, not read, not understood. Biblically, we were all illiterate.
When I first heard about "the second birth" and the gospel, I was already in the university. I thank God for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship.
In the "transition period" (while God was working on my 'restoration process'), I would attend a Baptist service with my friends. They'd go to breakfast together (and have fun) and I would run up to meet my "holy obligation" (and not have fun.) I went to the late Mass because of the FEAR that the Holy Roman Catholic Church puts into the minds of its adherents.
One last point regarding the RCC (dis)use of the Bible. My sister (who btw, has the required two-part Catholic name) was a lay teacher in CCD. A couple weeks into the class, the priest warned her not to use the Bible anymore because she was "unqualified". Imagine that!
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I know: These are my anecdotes. (I have a lot of them!) I do not mean to harm anyone by telling them. I HOPE that someone might be coming to the same kind of realization that I did 40 years ago. Catholicism is wrecking people's lives and leading people away from God's Truth.
Amen?
“Catholics should at least get into a Southern Baptist Sunday School”
I like the Southern Baptists for their generally conservative views of the Scriptures which makes them good allies in the culture war. But there was no Southern Baptist Church until a few centuries ago.