lost??? no, no, no... DRIVEN OUT!
Posted on 09/06/2018 12:16:20 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods
More Americans have left Catholicism behind than any other religion in the U.S., according to a new report. About 13 percent of American adults are former Catholics – people who were raised in the faith but now say they have no religion, or converted to Protestantism or other beliefs, according to a survey by Pew Research Center. At the other end of the spectrum, 2 percent of U.S. adults report converting to Catholicism.
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It's because they used to believe in total Biblical inerrancy until about a hundred or so years ago when they suddenly reversed themselves and also claimed they had never taught total Biblical inerrancy. Soon they will reverse themselves on homosexuality and probably make the same claim.
Who would want to be part of such a wishy washy, dishonest religion that drops traditional understandings the moment some modern yells "boo!"? Semper idem my foot!
Catholicism is for intellectuals, not ordinary people. The only way to be an ordinary person and a Catholic at the same time is to be born one. They indeed worship the "gxd" of the philosophers, not the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
And I will predict that they will be back.
You can always come back. Make an appointment with a priest and get your questions answered.
The repent and be forgiven.
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Specific examples and hot links, please.
A bad Pope does not make the entire Church, the people of God — you and me — bad.
I’m glad none of that happened at my Latin Mass parishes.
or it’s a “come out Her, this wicked Harlot My People” sort of thing... may be it’s both!
Catholicism is now “mainstream,” like the Protestant denominations that have been losing members for decades.
For me it was when I realized the church didn’t taught church tradition over biblical Christianity.
The last straw was a priest who intoned that “we are all universalists” and went on to say that all religions lead to salvation.
I’m out.
You lay people then can make a mechanism to force change...the church can’t function without it’s people and without their volunteerism and their money donations. A sit down strike as it were. Forget about threats from the deluded bishops....God will hold each person responsible separately for their actions on Earth. You can’t sin even if some Church Hierarchy says you can. The Holy Spirit resides in the whole body not just the hierarchy of the church...if the upper rulers have become blinded then the responsibility of the laity is not to be blinded with them but rather to act as seeing eye dogs to guide the rulers out of their blindness. There are many smart biblically minded Catholics all over the world....they will know how to restructure what needs to be restructured...God will guide them. The current ruling structures have lost their way....
FYI, my mom scheduled that meeting with a priest.
I answered his every comment with a scriptural response. He finally gave up and told me to leave his church.
The church has lost its religious message in favor of political accommodation; forgiveness for anything and everything, tolerant of any act that will land more “members,” and a dress code that allows shorts, t-shirts and sandals as Sunday attire.
Gone several years ago. Maxima Coulpa
lost??? no, no, no... DRIVEN OUT!
Perhaps the Sunday attire should be that of the early church?? I don’t think God cares what we wear so much but more that we’re in church.
If laweeks is a follower of Christ he’s already forgiven.
Isn’t forgiveness of ALL sins kinda the message of Christianity? Perhaps not Roman Catholicism but Christianity.
Catholic Caucus ping
Fantastic post; keep up the good work!!!
I try to attend only traditional Masses; recently, a traditional priest told us during a sermon that an essential part of the true Christian religion is perseverance. That we currently have evil leadership in the church does not lessen that we have the true faith and have a true path to salvation.
I urge Catholics to look around and find a Catholic church in your area that you can attend that propagates the true faith every week, even if that is not your parish church. This may well be an SSPX or “independent” chapel where the true faith, true Mass, and true sacraments take place every time.
I think that number is actually much higher.
Why do you always assume that someone left Catholicism because they had unanswered questions?
That’s such a snarky, condescending attitude.
Here’s a newsflash, although you’ve been told it hundreds of times, people don’t leave Catholicism because they have unanswered questions.
And what on earth makes you even think that in light of the news about Catholicism these days, anyone would even WANT to talk to a priest about spiritual matters?
Like we should trust the spiritual advice of someone who, likely as not, is living in sin and can’t even keep their own lives in order?
Fat chance.
And all one has to do to be forgiven by God is confess their sins and GOD Himself will forgive that person.
Nobody needs religion to reach God.
Jesus is enough all by Himself.
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