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To: Gamecock; Lee N. Field
Some years back (unfortunately I did not keep bookmarks then) there was a particular conversion story put forward by the FR Romanists. This guy went from Jehovah's Witness, to Roman Catholic. OK, fine. Well, when you dug deeper into the guy's story, this convert had been everything. If I remember right, this convert'd been an independent fundamental baptist, an adventist, and Eastern Orthodox. And probably a few steps I've forgotten. He'd spend a few years as one thing, before being convinced of something else and moving on. And, at the time his RCC conversion was recounted here, he'd already moved on to something else.

Alex, can you help out?

The details don't match, but that sounds a lot like the the story of Rodney Beason, supposedly a former Calvinist turned Catholic. His story was so well-loved by FRoman Catholics that five months later, they re-solicited it as a "powerful conversion story". When Beason was a first year college student, he claimed to have "a library full of Calvin, Luther, Warfield, Hodge, Murray, Owen, Machen, etc" and he claimed to have "helped plant a local Orthodox Presbyterian Church". All before he finished his first year of college!

Miracle of miracles, Rodney Beason himself signed up to FR just to provide all with the rest of his "powerful conversion story". He abandoned the Catholic Church within five years of his oft-heralded 2002 conversion....

Well, I had no idea this was still circulating. I have asked for this ‘powerful conversion story’ to be removed numerous times. Sadly, it has not and it still finds it way to those who wish to make something of it. Yes, I have been a spiritual wanderer. I found very hateful criticism in the Catholic Church and I must admit, my taste for it did wane to the point of not associating with it anymore. I also found that Masonry is very boring as they really just want to sit around and eat and talk about people behind their backs, much like the Church I left behind so I left them as well....

....Have I fooled around with Hinduism? Yes, I have and I have studied many eastern religions. I am in search of something and everything else I have tried has not brought me to where I wish to be. So, quote scriptures, talk about how I am a boat tossed about on the waters to and fro. Talk about how I will convert for food.

On the other hand, Lee might be thinking of that mightiest of converts, Rob Evans. Rob's claim to fame was a direct-to-VHS children's series in the 1990s titled The Donut Repair Club, marketed to children in Evangelical households. When he wasn't entertaining children, Rob was a Presbyterian Pentecostal Baptist multiple-church-splitting spiritual wanderer, changing churches an average of every five years, even being excommunicated from one congregation before his conversion to Catholicism. That conversion coincided neatly with EWTN acquiring broadcasting rights to his out-of-production Donut Repair Club.
44 posted on 02/01/2015 6:57:37 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Alex Murphy
I think I found what I (slightly mis-)recalled. The Journey Home (Ecumenical) (with an "ecumenical" tag so we were all supposed to play nice). On the wandering journey of one Ken Guindon. With comments on the use of conversion stories as an apologetic.
47 posted on 02/01/2015 7:34:14 PM PST by Lee N. Field ("We are assailed by two sects...." John Calvin, Reply to Cardinal Sadoleto, 1539)
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To: Alex Murphy

I remember Evans ...touted here as well ... :)


52 posted on 02/02/2015 7:31:45 AM PST by RnMomof7 (Ga 4:16)
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