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I am writing a book and I am putting this survey up for a while to get a feel for some numbers. You can answer more than one and if you answer other please comment in the below thread - if you wish to comment privately please PM me - thank you.
 
I don’t see a survey anywhere. Am I missing something?
 
I have always been the type of Catholic I am now and never looked elsewhere

This might need some more explaining. How can one always be a “type” of Catholic they are now? That would claim that one never learns from being a Catholic in the past to being the Catholic they are now. We are all still wayfarers.
 
You forgot the Buddhists and Hindus. They make up a large portion of the religious in the world.🙂
 
I have looked at all of them plus some others like Buddhism and Hinduism. I didn’t convert to Catholicism till early in 2006 and my spiritual journey has taken me to many places!
 
dfp42 said:
I have always been the type of Catholic I am now and never looked elsewhere

This might need some more explaining. How can one always be a “type” of Catholic they are now? That would claim that one never learns from being a Catholic in the past to being the Catholic they are now. We are all still wayfarers.
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I think the OP means by “type” the rite that you are in such as Roman/Latin or Eastern Rites.
 
You forgot Lutherans, Methodists and Presbyterians, too. I guess you ran out of poll choices.
 
Yes, I ran out of poll choices. By type of Catholic - I did mean Rite Eastern/Latin. And yes I did overlood Buddhist and Hindus - my apologies. Thank you to those that spoke up. The poll is at the top of the page for the person that couldn’t find it.
 
I picked I have always been the type of Catholic I am now. I did however “explore” protestantism, as in a learned about but all while affirming the Catholic church. It was during my questioning phase when I had to find out why I was Catholic. But I questioned without doubting if that makes sense. 🙂
 
I don’t know that I can answer the poll… I would have answered “type of Catholic” but then I’m NOTHING like I used to be before the Holy Spirit nudged me, so I’m certainly not the same type of Catholic I used to be. Also, I would have had to answer exploring “New Age Type” of religion (a la Oprah type stuff… trying to talk to angels, relatism and all that gobly gook) There’s no entry in there for coming back from the depths of silliness.
 
Loboto-Me said:
I don’t know that I can answer the poll… I would have answered “type of Catholic” but then I’m NOTHING like I used to be before the Holy Spirit nudged me, so I’m certainly not the same type of Catholic I used to be. Also, I would have had to answer exploring “New Age Type” of religion (a la Oprah type stuff… trying to talk to angels, relatism and all that gobly gook) There’s no entry in there for coming back from the depths of silliness.
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Well, the OP meant by “type” the rite that you are involved in (IE Latin/Eastern).

Anyway, I have also been involved in the New Age type of stuff. Also the Occult and witchcraft. I can attest to the fact that this is very dangerous stuff to be involved in. I never really had a bad experience except for the time when a “spell” backfired on me. That and my priest says that a main reason why I suffer from depression and such is partly due to the fact that I have been involved in such demonic stuff. Don’t ever let a New Age/Occult/Witchcraft practitioner tell you that this stuff is not demonic. They may not (or may) believe in the devil and demons but I can assure you that they do exist and they are active in these “religions”. They are more like dangerous cults if you ask me. That said, I have never been involved in Satanism though I have investigated it at one point or another in my life and I have asked the devil for favors too. I don’t think he ever granted me those favors. I even got to the point once where I was so against Christianity that I actually asked the demons to come in to my apartment and inhabit the place. To my knowledge, this has never happened and I attribute this to the grace of God.
 
I VERY briefly considered becoming Presbyterian…we’re talking like two, three days at most before I came to my senses, thank God.

The devil almost got me, but I managed to back away from the precipice.

Thinking about how seriously I did consider it sends a chill up my spine though.
 
Marc_Anthony said:
I VERY briefly considered becoming Presbyterian…we’re talking like two, three days at most before I came to my senses, thank God.

The devil almost got me, but I managed to back away from the precipice.

Thinking about how seriously I did consider it sends a chill up my spine though.
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While Presbyterianism is definitely not a correct religion (they deny free will in most cases among numerous other things), it is still a Christian religion and is a far better choice than the Occult or Witchcraft of the New Age. I never really considered the Presbyterian Church or any churches that are Calvinist because I have always known that they deny free will in most cases. This is something that is totally unacceptable to me. I know for a fact that we are not robots controlled by God. If we were, we would never sin and we would all go to Heaven (unless of course God was playing some kind of sick games with us which I know He isn’t because He is kind, merciful, forgiving, perfect, loving, and all else that is good).
 
Now, looking back on it (and this is mere months later) leaving the Catholic faith is absolutely repulsive to me and I am actually seriously discerning whether I have a calling to be a Priest in a Secular Institution. Thanks to the Grace of God I was granted the patience to do even a little bit of research before converting and I immediately came to the conclusion that NOT all Christian religions are the same and leaving the One True Church because of something as trivial as Mass being boring (seriously! I understood that little!) would have been WAAAY too easy a victory for the devil. He’s going to have to do better than that if he wants ME to leave. 😉
 
Marc_Anthony said:
Now, looking back on it (and this is mere months later) leaving the Catholic faith is absolutely repulsive to me and I am actually seriously discerning whether I have a calling to be a Priest in a Secular Institution. Thanks to the Grace of God I was granted the patience to do even a little bit of research before converting and I immediately came to the conclusion that NOT all Christian religions are the same and leaving the One True Church because of something as trivial as Mass being boring (seriously! I understood that little!) would have been WAAAY too easy a victory for the devil. He’s going to have to do better than that if he wants ME to leave. 😉
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Marc - Thank you for sharing that. It takes much humility. It is one Satan’s tricks. Often times we think evil looks ad but the truth is evil often looks good or it would be tempting. :rolleyes:
 
During my “away” years, I looked into Anglican, Lutheran, Presbyterian and Methodist churches. I eventually found my way home. Since being home, I have occasionally (with varied amounts of energy) investigated the Eastern rites of Catholicism.
 
My parents always took us to non-denominational protestant churches with lots of Christian rock music and very little religious message.

When I moved out on my own and started college I started going to an Anglican church and found that I liked it a lot better. After I started learning a bit about the history of the Anglican church I realized it probably wasn’t the best choice and I’ve been slowly making my way over to becoming Catholic
 
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