Have you ever had to defend your faith?

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Yeah,from those Born-agains who hang out at the mall and hand out Jack Chick tracts-Question for evangelicals? Why are we considered idolators for chanting things over and over and supposedly worshipping statues and praying to them-but on your television networks you will show Jews repeating things and praying at the western wall and there is no condemnation-You just pick and choose then when things are offensive to GOD in your eyes?
 
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Yeah, that’s called “witnessing” and they will usually take the same line as the tracts they’re handing out and usually (but not always) won’t have answers for a Catholic that knows why he believes what he believes. Sometimes they can be pretty uncharitable, which just means that you need to smile and be all the more kind with your answers. Often they are just young kids from some local church.
There’s a link on the thread Jack T. Chick Anti-Catholicism at it’s worst here on this forum for some great Catholic comic tracts that you might get and carry just for such occasions. They’ll be surprised when a Catholic actually knows his stuff AND has a handy tract to take with them. 😛
 
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rayne89:
He has been sucked into the church of Moral Relativism
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Ah yes. It’s membership seems to be growing worldwide :D.

I would recommend Peter Kreeft’s A Refutation of Moral Relativism - “Not just a strong case against it, but a refutation of the philosophy that no society has ever survived”. It’s in Real Player Audio.

God bless,
TTM
 
Sounds like many of us are struggling with people who are not ready to pursue the Truth.

I think some of the most important things you can do is to make them realise that:
  • Everything in life is faith based. We can not even prove our own existance, so why would God, if he exists, even try to prove his? Besides, even if we had perfect proof for his existance, the choice is still there to accept or to reject him. Satan knew perfectly well that God was real, but he rejected him nonetheless.
  • they do not have perfect knowledge, so they are capable of being wrong in their belief. Humility is the beginning of wisdom.
  • They must seek the Truth, since Truth is God himself, and the consequences, if he exists, are eternal. If we realise that this life we live is like nothing compared to the afterlife, we’d pay a lot more attention to seeking the Truth.
  • Since Truth is an objective thing, we must not try to hold on to our subjective thoughts and feelings, preconceptions, prejudices, and whatever else which may get in the way. One must be ready to accept, and be open to the Truth if it was presented to them.
Anyway, time for bed. Hope that made some sense. 😃

God bless y’all,
TTM
 
TTM,
I want to thank you for an excellent post that sums up much of what I haven’t been able to get across.
 
Church Militant:
TTM,
I want to thank you for an excellent post that sums up much of what I haven’t been able to get across.
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Yes it was a wonderful thread,and I think TTM is doing wonderfully in his charity:) I have not fared so well:crying: I let edwin’s comments send me in a flashback of my church of Christ upbringing and the same falsehoods about Those Catholics" that I hear from my surviving family".God Bless
 
Church Militant:
I want to thank you for an excellent post that sums up much of what I haven’t been able to get across.
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Lisa4Catholics:
Yes it was a wonderful thread,and I think TTM is doing wonderfully in his charity:) I have not fared so well:crying: I let edwin’s comments send me in a flashback of my church of Christ upbringing and the same falsehoods about Those Catholics" that I hear from my surviving family".God Bless
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Thank you both. It’s always good to hear affirming words from my spiritual bro’s ‘n’ sisters. 😃

Purely through God’s grace, can I maintain any charity. Trust me :eek:.

Bless you all, and have a joyful Christmas!
TTM
 
I live in Central Alabama among a 2.5% Catholic population. Sometimes it seems more sensible to hide my “Catholicism” than to show it, but I’m getting over my intimidation. Thanks to all of you for sharing, I feel like part of the crowd now!😃
 
Ah, yes many times! The first time was when my brother and his family left the Church 30 years ago. We (remaining family) were bombarded with “Have you accepted Jesus…into your life”, to worshipping Mary, to worshipping images, to not confessing your sins to a man (priest), purgatory, well ya know the rest. With my responses I realized my Baltimore catechism was “kicking” in…to my surprise;) However, when “they” started quoting scripture my confidence level was dropping quickly:o so I quickly found a bible study (30 yars ago that was not an easy task) and became totally immersed and than the Holy Spirit took over:yup: I was literally “saved”! Last Christmas to be exact my brother actually listened and wanted scripture to “justify” purgatory. I supplied him with the info. I said him, "do you really think you can go directly to heaven just simply by “accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior?” He grinned and said “not really” Our communication was opened again. It periodically closes but that’s ok because more and more questions have “popped” up. I rec’d a scholarship from our diocese, at a Catholic University, and again heard horrific heresies from my instructor (a nun) this has been my most painful experience and ongoing challenge! Betty J. Gonzales
 
Yes, I’ve had to defend the faith – to fellow Catholics ignorant of the faith,to liberal priests, to loopy DRE’s and to subversive liturgists. It’s amazing! So many Catholics are ignorant of the basics, so I find myself constantly defending the most basic teachings of the Church. I’ve had to defend positions when talking to liberal priest, especially regarding moral teachings. As far as DREs are concerned, I’m really saddened by all of this affective/psychological teaching that passes as catechesis these days, and the liturgists, oh the liturgists,who reduce the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to a “celebration of community.” I really find myself explaining the faith to Protestants and defending the faith against fellow Catholics, so sad, sad but true.
 
Yes, but not very well. A co-worker said something like “I used to be Catholic but now I am Christian”. I rebutted her remark saying the Catholic Church not only is Christian it started the Christian faith. She replied “yeah, but it was different where I was growing up in Columbia.” She then said the school she went to forced her to get Confirmation or fail some class. I am not sure of the details.

I have heard other remarks about the Catholic Chruch at work, but usually just kept quiet. The topic of faith is not mentioned at my workplace much by design anyway, but once in awhile (less than once a month) someone makes their opinion known.
 
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ThornGenX:
Yes, but not very well. A co-worker said something like “I used to be Catholic but now I am Christian”. I rebutted her remark saying the Catholic Church not only is Christian it started the Christian faith. She replied “yeah, but it was different where I was growing up in Columbia.” She then said the school she went to forced her to get Confirmation or fail some class. I am not sure of the details.

I have heard other remarks about the Catholic Chruch at work, but usually just kept quiet. The topic of faith is not mentioned at my workplace much by design anyway, but once in awhile (less than once a month) someone makes their opinion known.
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Feel free to make your opinion known as well, It’s still ( for the time being anyway) a free country. One thing that I’ve noticed is VERY effective is when I tell them (Ya know, “THEM”) just how much my faith has enhanced my relationship with Jesus and about my better life and prayer life and love for the Bible. It just flat blows them away because they usually run into Catholics who don’t know how to “Give their testimony” of what God has done for them.

Let me suggest that you sit down and type out a sort of open letter like you would to a friend who needed to know why your life is better for being a Catholic. Say perhaps that they believe in God but are not Christian…tell 'em why YOU do. Then go on to give the reasons that you are Catholic and why they should be too. It doesn’t have to be a theological work of art, just a simple statement of what you love about being Catholic and why you think everybody should be. (LOL)
I have an example of my own that i’ll send you if you’ll PM me.
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Of course I have to defend my faith, almost everyday.

My family is mostly protestant and being the only Catholic in my family I do get some attacks. Yet they respect me for the most part. My mother attacks me for praying the rosary, she claims what all the other Protestants say about it, it annoys me alot. She hates the term, “Co-redemptrix”, saying that it takes away from Christ.

Her most used line is, “I wish you would believe the truth” I laugh at that most of the time though.

And at the Catholic School I go to, most of my friends are atheist/agnostic, so I get attacked even for being a Christian.

Defending my faith is a constant battle of sorts.
 
I thank God for the woman who attacked the Catholic Church (and me) some 20 years ago sitting right at my kitchen table. It led me to look into some of her untruths about the Church and to learn more about and appreciate my faith. And I owe it all to Our Lady, because I had just started to pray the rosary at that time. To Jesus through Mary indeed!
 
Hang in there BloodandFire.
One thing you can do is print the tracts that are on this web site and offer them to critics asaying as I do, " Hey, if you’re interested in what this part of Catholicism is really all about, here’s something that may help answer your questions."

Also see these sites:

catholicapologetics.com/

saint-mike.org/cse/default.asp

Pax tecum,
 
I think the most obvious would be the discussions I have had with some LDS friends of mine. They always ask their questions in a very polite way, but I am still forced to get the answers they need, and sadly, I have many times had to tell them “I don’t know, but let me find out and get back to you.” However, some GREAT good has come from it. Because of them, I am TRULY Catholic instead of just catholic. And I now love my faith where as as little as a year ago I didn’t hardly understand it.

I find it very rewarding and satisfying to explain my faith to other. I also find it EXTREMELY frustrating when it seems that it makes no progress. I obviously can’t tell if it is making a difference on the inside though.
 
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:yup: Yeah, everyday. My fellow classmates (Catholic School) don’t believe all the teachings, so I try to defend our great faith. I’ve posted a few times how they’ve retaliated with swears when that can’t think of an answer.
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:tiphat:Hats off to you for defending your faith to fellow Catholics in your class!!! :bowdown:
 
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