I love these threads.
It really brings out the anti-Catholic bigots on FreeRepublic.
Yup. Never fails. Illustrates once again, there’s no bigot like a “Christian” bigot.
Sigh... you guys just revel in getting personally flaggellated; don't you!
It really brings out the anti-CatholicISM bigots on FreeRepublic.
“anti-Catholic bigots”
I get the same response from the homosexuals and trans when I tell them they are living in sin, birds of a feather flock together.
What it really brings out I’ve noticed after many years here is mostly a fight between the Catholic Church and itself
It’s a war here between those still Catholic and those who’ve left the Church for whatever other sect
The rest of us are just supporting cast
Ive known a number of anti Catholic folks in my life were born Catholic and raised in it but rejected it at some point usually for some evangelical nom
Most Catholics I know are ambivalent about religion
The devout and the rejectionist occupy bookends and the ambivalent the more broad space of the middle ...a minority of Catholics I have known would defend the Catholic Church the way many here do they simply don’t practice really but if asked will say they were raised Catholic
I don’t mean to imply I think this is good....it’s just an observation
Southern Baptists puts so much fear and discipline in you young that complete desertion of the faith is uncommon
Although that is changing too in the world of ours
More emphasis on your relationship with the Holy Spirit in your life as your guide and comforter versus your subordination to Gods will or what we might call behavioral expectations
This is happening in all but a few formerly hardline Protestant outfits
I’ve had explained to me personally by someone who I personally believes the Holy Spirit dwells in but it’s a new interpretation for me raised in a conservative church body 1960s Deep South
She btw.....was raised Catholic ...a non denominational Protestant now....almost charismatic
I think this is why ex Catholics go evangelical or charismatic too
Something more personal intimate