A Catholic cannot just pick and choose which teachings to follow just because they are not personally convenient. To be close to Jesus is to deny ourselves and pick up our cross(es), even it’s not hip and cool by American millennial standards to do so.
How exactly can you hold that the Catholic Church is the original founded by Jesus and deny one of the most authoritative moral teachings she has issued? Those would seem to contradict, no?
I agree with Buffalo’s response and add my own emphatic No!
My experience has been SO very opposite to that. Maybe the difference is just where you live, and where I live.
Jesus isn’t denying anyone civil rights. We are all His children. There are guidelines in the e bible, however, about marriage being only between a man and a woman. So being gay isn’t a sin—acting on those homosexual impulses is. But again, so is fornication. And as I stated before, there aren’t a lot of unmarried people I know whom are still virgins, and that’s also a sin. People tend to dust that one under the rug as if one sin is worse than the other, but we cannot decide that, only God can judge us.
Honestly, from a historical and sociological perspective, it seems hard to take such claims seriously. Statements like this have been made literally for hundreds of years, and never seem to have materialized. People are still making statements like this today, and there is no demographic evidence that this is the case. The population of the secular nations are dropping, religiosity is increasing, and the Church is very strong in the developing world, with both increased growth(Africa) and revitalization(Latin America). .
The church is 100% against abortion…Hello it’s your favorite liberal again!
So as you know from my numerous posts, I support gay marriage and abortion rights. And none of the responses I’ve received from you have changed my mind on the issue.
We also know that thanks to years of liberal education, millenials are definitely liberal and will slowly take charge of this world, and that it will become increasingly difficult to survive as a cultural conservative in an increasingly postmodern, liberal culture. Imagine coming out as a conservative at work, or among friends. And many women will refuse to date conservative men.
However, I do agree with the Catholic Church’s teachings on spiritual matters, such as the fallacy of Sola Scriptura, the importance of sacraments, and the Catholic Church being the original founded by Jesus.
I find myself agreeing with the speeches of Protestant converts to Catholicism such as John Martignoni and Scott Hahn, among others.
Though I am a former Protestant and an agnostic now, I don’t see myself staying one for long, simply because I admit I’m a coward and I am afraid of the uncertainties of life, and need something to lean on.
However, conversion to Catholicism would also mean the loss of most of my friends, who are Protestant.
Since after months of debating you guys, I’ve determined that nothing will change my mind on the abortion and gay marriage issues, is it possible to just be a quiet convert to Catholicism and still support abortion and gay marriage rights (after all, that’s what most who claim Catholicism are doing anyway)?
:yup: If they are Baptized in another Christian Faith Tradition - See my post #19 … If un-baptized then they have to renounce Satan and all his evil works :yup:
You cannot be a Christian and be a coward at the same time. That is being lukewarm. Work on that first. There are people who have had to give up their life for the faith, literally. To become a Christian because you are afraid of the uncertainties of life makes a mockery of their sacrifice and strength and will make you a hypocrite when times really get tough.
