Is there a religion you would choose if you couldn't be a catholic

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I used to think if I was not able to be a Catholic I would be an Anglican, but seeing the mess that faith has become, I have reconsidred that

I guess if I couldn’t be a Catholic I might have to be Jewish…Since I firmly believe Christ is the Son of God, I don’t know I would manage that one
 
Would you consider Orthodoxy or one of the non-Chacedonian Eastern Churches?
 
Yes I would, but in my mind I sort of lump them as catholic, even though they aren’t
 
SSPV maybe? (Ridgerunner runs for cover. Well, it’s CLOSE to being Catholic!!)
 
I would be a Quaker. I’m big on silence. I like their ideas about war, passive resistance, equality of race and gender. I like their plainness and simplicity. I also like their mysticism, their thoughts on “inner light” and such. I like a lot of things about them.

If I were to choose Eastern Orthodoxy or Anglicanism it would be no more “Catholic” to me than Quakerism. I wouldn’t have the Pope, the Vicar of Christ.

If I were an Anglican I wouldn’t have real sacraments that confer grace, so why have sacraments at all? Why have smells and bells without the Real Presence that inspires it? Why have a priesthood whose succession is broken off from the apostles? Why recite a Creed if I can’t be a member of the Church that gave me the Creed to begin with?

So… if I can’t be a Catholic, then let me sit in a pew in a plain black dress and be quiet.
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Ridgerunner said:
SSPV maybe? (Ridgerunner runs for cover. Well, it’s CLOSE to being Catholic!!)
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Good answer. If there is no Visible Church why wouldn’t you go for them. Of course, if we couldn’t be Catholic then we couldn’t join in any of the sects, heresies , etc. that left the Church because they wouldn’t exist either. We’d definitely be back a Judaism again. Ah, a little dance with the impossible is always fun. Of course, this is all just silly conjecture. There’s no reason that we can’t be Catholic.
 
I’d look at the Orthodox since they have valid sacraments. I can’t imagine life without the Eucharist.
 
Maybe I’m going about this question the wrong way. OP, could we not be Catholic because the Church does not exist or for some other unimaginable reason?
 
Judaism.

If Jesus didn’t tell Peter to build his church, I’d stick the Father’s church. I’d be safe there. =]
 
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Judaism.

If Jesus didn’t tell Peter to build his church, I’d stick the Father’s church. I’d be safe there. =]
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It’s also the Church Christ was born into, per se. It’s the one He practiced. That said, I’d have to be looking at it from the stance that the Son was never here to begin with or there would be a Catholic Church for me to join, right?:rotfl:
 
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If I were to choose Eastern Orthodoxy or Anglicanism it would be no more “Catholic” to me than Quakerism. I wouldn’t have the Pope, the Vicar of Christ.

If I were an Anglican I wouldn’t have real sacraments that confer grace, so why have sacraments at all?**

Do you mean to imply that the Orthodox do not have a true priesthood or sacraments? This is not what the Catholic church says.
 
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If I were to choose Eastern Orthodoxy or Anglicanism it would be no more “Catholic” to me than Quakerism. I wouldn’t have the Pope, the Vicar of Christ.

If I were an Anglican I wouldn’t have real sacraments that confer grace, so why have sacraments at all?**

Do you mean to imply that the Orthodox do not have a true priesthood or sacraments? This is not what the Catholic church says.
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No, I’m not implying that. That’s why I made a new paragraph and mentioned the Anglicans specifically.
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bpbasilphx said:
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Do you mean to imply that the Orthodox do not have a true priesthood or sacraments? This is not what the Catholic church says.
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Like the Arians, Pelagians, Donatists, and many other heretics, the Orthdox do have a valid Priesthood. But a valid Priethood is not enough. The Orthodox deny many dogmas of the Faith (which makes them heretics), and they reject the Primacy of the Pope (which makes them schismatics as well). Therefore, since heretics and schismatics will, without any doubt at all, be eternally lost, we can see that their valid Priesthood and sacraments will not benefit them.
 
Judaism, hands down. Besides, I think ‘Mitzvah’ is a fun word. 👍
 
redrosetea said:
I used to think if I was not able to be a Catholic I would be an Anglican, but seeing the mess that faith has become, I have reconsidred that

I guess if I couldn’t be a Catholic I might have to be Jewish…Since I firmly believe Christ is the Son of God, I don’t know I would manage that one
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Not sure I understand the question. Why couldn’t you not be a Catholic? Christ established the Catholic Church. There would be no other “Christian” religions to choose because Christianity was spread by the Catholic Church.
 
It is a only question, for the sake for making you think about other faiths

I am not stupid ,I do understand you can be a Catholic
 
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