If you’re talking to me, First of all, I’m not a Priest or an apologist, I am a regular guy, defending my Catholic Faith, the best I can. I am a lay Catholic.
So am I. A cradle Catholic, still on the journey and loving it.
Second, you don’t know what a Priest would approve of, so stop. I have a regular confessor but I know all of my priests well and I talk to them the same way I post here, except not as “nice” or as “politically correct”…
Has nothing to do with politcally correct. I am not a liberal, I am not a conservative.
I think my problem here, is that I’m not a phony and I don’t pretend to be a Saint or say things for the sake of being “liked”.
You’re not the hill I want to die on.
It seems, that for some here, the more “religious” they get, the more judgmental they seem to be. yes…I can believe that.If that is happening to you, you are going in the wrong direction.
I am a man who has spent his entire life in a man’s world, where people are real, straight talkers, not politically correct and not thinned-skinned, so this has been a real adjustment for me but I’m trying. Yet, there are some here, who won’t cut me any slack…What’s wrong with you people? Step out of the Ted Nugent box a minute and look at the good in the world. Evil is vain, it likes attention.
There are dangerous, ugly, violent, obscene and offensive things in the world and it ain’t happing here at CAF. I agree. CAF is a place to learn, to share, to pray and to teach as Jesus did.
A Catholic Priest has never told me that I had to stop being a man, or stop being me, to be a good Catholic. Soldiers and Policeman are good Catholics too but my guess is that, some of you here would be offended by their personalities as well, if you met them, but that doesn’t mean that Soldiers and Policemen don’t go to heaven. Usually the best ones, are the ones who are the “tough guys” and the “roughest around the edges”.Re: soldiers…I work with Marines everyday. I have a high respect for those who serve our country. My sisterinlaw’s dad was a police officer and was murdered last yr. I do know, Jimmy, I do know.
Some of you here, view the soul as if it were on the outside, well they say that, “beauty is only skin deep”… the soul is even deeper. I am well aware the soul is within. Change, good or bad, comes from within.
Your comments and some others here, are petty, “holier than thou”, judgmental, and condescending and are not consistent with Christian behavior.
Petty, is not a word I would use. More like “curious” as to how your approach will bring productive dialogue between possible converts and/or reverts. And how the entire “Christian” community can benefit.
This here (CAF), is not important in the big scheme of things. There are young men today, who will be seriously injured or killed protecting us and our freedoms and I hope, if they ever post here, that they don’t run into the same people, who have constantly attack me, because of “how they write”. It’s not “how”. You write well, it’s the “tone”.
Sometimes, when I read a snotty post here that seems be from a college kid, in his twenties, I want to ask him, “Why are you here? Why aren’t you out there, while you are young and healthy, putting your own life on the line for others?..Where were you in 1973? 1983? Listening to Zeppelin and having a smoke? Listening to VanHalen?”If you where, this arguing here would seem pretty silly.”I turned 50 this year, I am no kid.
Some here, have totally lost their perspective and have a wrong set of priorities and values …the main priority being, - themselves…me, me, me, me, me, me, me.
I see some people here who pretend that they “put themselves before others” (except Catholics) and pretend to be “Charitable" (except to Catholics), all the while claiming to be “Christian”…
Do your threads “inspire” and beckon others to come in and discuss, or do they threaten and chastise?
I have also seen people here who have compromised their own faith, for the sake of ecumenicalism and so that they would be, “like” by people who have different beliefs…once again – “me, me, me, and me”.
My faith is not compromised. I was blessed with a Catholic upbringing by a Baptist mother. I have seen many good things outside the fishbowl some live in.
Go back, and read the posts, where your anti-Catholic “friends” here, have made personal, insulting comments to me…here and on other threads and then we can talk about rude.
I don’t have any anti-catholic friends, why would I subject myself to the negative?
Why is it that Protestants never comment to, or about other Protestants here? All of you (36,000 plus denominations), have more differences with each other, than with Catholics.
Apparently you have never heard a Baptist and a Pentacostal go after each other. Not good.
This doesn’t seem like phony, hypocritical behavior to you?
Many of the Protestants here, I believe, are here for the sole purpose of pulling Catholics away from there own faith and not here to ask or answer questions, shame on you. If your faith is on shaky ground, it is possible. But beating folks over the head with doctrine, dogma and rules doesn’t work either. The “spirit of the law” works wonders.
It is people like you, O.S. Luke and some others here, who help me know for sure that the Catholic Church is the true expression of Christianity. It has also helped me realize the there are many Catholics here, who don’t understand their own faith.Shouting won’t make easier to understand.
Your understanding and mine are very different…we agree to disagree.
All other denominations involve hypocrisy.
That is your opinion, and as a free thinking American you are entitled to it.
Take Care.
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Oh my, I don’t agree with any of this and find the tone very odd.
