We ? How many do you represent ?
If people are shy, embarrassed, secretive, ashamed, or just unwilling to honestly share the group they think is a genuine church and with whom they assemble to share their faith, it makes me wonder why the bother attacking Catholics and their faith, which happens here every day.
It seems to me reasonable that those baptized as Catholics are doing it, trying, as it were, to scrape off that indelible mark at any cost. It doesn't seem to me to work though, as they return to scratch, as it were, over and over again. I also admit freely that some Catholics give in to provocation and lose their tempers, especially when blessed Mary is insulted from their perspective. It is all most unfortunate. Are there no Calvary Chapel folks here who are not ashamed to be associated with and members of Calvary Chapel assemblies ? What would Pastor Chuck Smith say ?
Nothing like tainting the discussion before it begins.
Making presumptions about people and treating them as factual is underhanded debate techniques, and people do recognize what is happening there.
All those presumptions about people's motives are completely baseless as nobody has ever given any indication that those are the reasons they don't give out information on their church affiliation.
On the contrary, they HAVE given reasons why they don't and those reasons are never addressed, but rather summarily ignored.
It seems to me reasonable that those baptized as Catholics are doing it, trying, as it were, to scrape off that indelible mark at any cost.
There is no indelible mark. That is a fantasy cooked up somewhere by someone to try to own anyone who was once baptized as a baby.
LIke I said, a religion of control freaks. They just have to own everyone and every thing and tell them what to do and how to live.
Rome does not cede control readily.
So there's no *scraping off* any *mark* as there was never a mark to begin with. It's calling the RCC on its attempt at a power grab and exposing it for the falsehood that it is.
And the RCC and RC's don;t like it. Too bad.
The RCC doesn't own me and never did.
I belong to Jesus.
As a group maybe, but not individually. That is against the rules. That would be an anti-Catholic. (a quite misused word here today)
Attacking an individuals faith is allowed.
Was the Emperor 'insulted' when the little boy pointed out he had no clothes?