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StubbleSpark
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Gracious!
I see so much of myself in you, excatholic. I am the only Catholic in my family. Though I was raised Baptist, my family has gone in so many directions…
Evangelical, agnostic, Bah’hai, “non-denominational.”
As you can see, when it comes to God, they have many fundamental disagreements, Bible or no. But the one thing they do agree on (for different reasons) is that the Catholic Church is evil.
Every conversation begins and ends with the assumption that no matter what, nearly every evil of the past 2000 years can be traced back to Holy Mother Church. This rips my hearts to shreds. On the one hand, I remember how I never questioned this assumption when I was a Protestant and mourn their stuborness like a disfigured person would cry at their own reflection. On the other hand I can see how much of their thinking is just conditioning.
America, though discovered by a Catholic, is a Protestant nation whose settlers largely came from Protestant Europe. Our history books already start by giving the Church a black eye. Now, a new wave of “scholarship” headed by the neo-gnostics and extreme anti-Catholics like Mormons and SDAs (an unlikely alliance, to be sure) seeks to get at the very kernel of “truth” by distilling the Catholicism from history even further. So what they end up with is an exaggeration of an exaggeration – but with the awful effect that they are more confident that their new historical Frankenstein is even more “pure.”
Have you ever asked a Mormon what he thought about Dan Brown’s DaVinci Code? Or when has a SDA ever shown the most remote interest in what the history of Christianity? Try talking to an atheist or agnostic member of the culture of death about the Church and watch him or her foam at the mouth. And now the new history places stronger emphasis on the evils the Church commited while downplaying her contributions. This is, roughly, the battlefield upon which each Catholic treads.
Being Catholic is lot like being an X-Man – you work so hard to save the world from itself but in the end you are too tempting a scapegoat to leave untouched. So what if we gave the world universities, hospitals, the natural sciences, constitutional governments, and the best art, theology, and philosophy in of both the East and West? None of that means anything to someone like you – you’d rather rip it all down so you can stand on that mess like the king of new hill.
But Matthew 16:18 says that will never happen. Right now, in another thread, someone with the same denominational leanings is blasting Catholicism for condemning all non-Catholics to Hell. And here you are blasting us for THE EXACT OPPOSITE REASON. Logic demands that both assumptions cannot possibly be correct simultaneously but there is ample room to suggest that maybe, just maybe both are completely wrong.
This does not matter to you. What matters is that you keep this multifront war against Catholicism hot and hit us from every side imaginable.
G’head. This is just another day in the growing list of over 730,000 days we have gone through already.
I see so much of myself in you, excatholic. I am the only Catholic in my family. Though I was raised Baptist, my family has gone in so many directions…
Evangelical, agnostic, Bah’hai, “non-denominational.”
As you can see, when it comes to God, they have many fundamental disagreements, Bible or no. But the one thing they do agree on (for different reasons) is that the Catholic Church is evil.
Every conversation begins and ends with the assumption that no matter what, nearly every evil of the past 2000 years can be traced back to Holy Mother Church. This rips my hearts to shreds. On the one hand, I remember how I never questioned this assumption when I was a Protestant and mourn their stuborness like a disfigured person would cry at their own reflection. On the other hand I can see how much of their thinking is just conditioning.
America, though discovered by a Catholic, is a Protestant nation whose settlers largely came from Protestant Europe. Our history books already start by giving the Church a black eye. Now, a new wave of “scholarship” headed by the neo-gnostics and extreme anti-Catholics like Mormons and SDAs (an unlikely alliance, to be sure) seeks to get at the very kernel of “truth” by distilling the Catholicism from history even further. So what they end up with is an exaggeration of an exaggeration – but with the awful effect that they are more confident that their new historical Frankenstein is even more “pure.”
Have you ever asked a Mormon what he thought about Dan Brown’s DaVinci Code? Or when has a SDA ever shown the most remote interest in what the history of Christianity? Try talking to an atheist or agnostic member of the culture of death about the Church and watch him or her foam at the mouth. And now the new history places stronger emphasis on the evils the Church commited while downplaying her contributions. This is, roughly, the battlefield upon which each Catholic treads.
Being Catholic is lot like being an X-Man – you work so hard to save the world from itself but in the end you are too tempting a scapegoat to leave untouched. So what if we gave the world universities, hospitals, the natural sciences, constitutional governments, and the best art, theology, and philosophy in of both the East and West? None of that means anything to someone like you – you’d rather rip it all down so you can stand on that mess like the king of new hill.
But Matthew 16:18 says that will never happen. Right now, in another thread, someone with the same denominational leanings is blasting Catholicism for condemning all non-Catholics to Hell. And here you are blasting us for THE EXACT OPPOSITE REASON. Logic demands that both assumptions cannot possibly be correct simultaneously but there is ample room to suggest that maybe, just maybe both are completely wrong.
This does not matter to you. What matters is that you keep this multifront war against Catholicism hot and hit us from every side imaginable.
G’head. This is just another day in the growing list of over 730,000 days we have gone through already.
There is just far too much evidence (in scripture) that Sacred Tradition was always meant to help us rightly divide the word of truth. I would strongly suggest that you go to 
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