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.