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scylla
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I have seen you post that people have been not too nice to you a couple times already, yet as I followed your posting I have seen the majority of people going out of their way to answer your posts charitably.
I for one have followed some of your posts and made an effort to answer thoughfully and in a kind manner. Many people who come here posting from a non-catholic point of view do resort to stating that they have been treated in an uncharitable manner to justify their thought that the Catholic Church is wrong. Please don’t fall into that thinking, it is easy to do, but please make an effort to see us how we really are. I have seen some of your frustration come out when you called us idol worshippers and such, but please have patience .
We are people just like you and we do make mistakes, but if you are going to disagree with the Catholic Church is shouldn’t be for some superficial reason. (like having a bad experience with a Catholic)
I invite you to ask your questions and learn more about the Catholic faith. If you are going to disagree with it, then disagree with what the Church really teaches.
God Bless,
Scylla
I for one have followed some of your posts and made an effort to answer thoughfully and in a kind manner. Many people who come here posting from a non-catholic point of view do resort to stating that they have been treated in an uncharitable manner to justify their thought that the Catholic Church is wrong. Please don’t fall into that thinking, it is easy to do, but please make an effort to see us how we really are. I have seen some of your frustration come out when you called us idol worshippers and such, but please have patience .
We are people just like you and we do make mistakes, but if you are going to disagree with the Catholic Church is shouldn’t be for some superficial reason. (like having a bad experience with a Catholic)
I invite you to ask your questions and learn more about the Catholic faith. If you are going to disagree with it, then disagree with what the Church really teaches.
God Bless,
Scylla
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Ignatius
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Here is something to think about.
Do you have any idea when your church was founded and by whom? You may find this enlightening:
If you are a member of the Jewish faith, your religion was founded by about 4,000 years ago.
If you are of the Catholic faith, Jesus Christ founded your Church in the year A.D. 30.
If you are Lutheran, your religion was founded by Martin Luther, an ex-monk in the Catholic Church, in 1517.
If you belong to the Church of England (Anglican), your religion was founded by King Henry VIII in the year 1534 because the pope would not grant him a divorce with the right to remarry.
If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded when John Knox brought the teachings of John Calvin to Scotland in the Year 1560.
If you are Unitarian, your group developed in Europe in the 1500s.
If you are a Congregationalist, your religion branched off Puritanism in the early 1600s in England.
If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam in 1607.
If you are a Methodist, your religion was founded by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1744.
If you are an Episcopalian, your church came from England to the American colonies. It formed a separate religion founded by Samuel Seabury in 1789.
If you are a Campellite Christian Church, your religion was started by Thomas and Alexander Campbell and Barton Stone at a revival held at Bushy Creek.
If you are a Mormon (Latter-day Saints), Joseph Smith started your church in Palmyra, N.Y. in 1830.
If you worship with the Salvation Army, your sect began with William Booth in London in 1865.
If you are a Christian Scientist, you look to 1879 as the year your religion was founded by Mary Baker Eddy.
If you are a Jehovah’s Witness, your religion was founded by Charles Taze Russell in Pennsylvania in the 1870s.
If your Church of Christ, your church broke of from the Campellites in 1906.
If you are Pentecostal, your religion was started in the United States in 1901.
If your organization is “nondenominational Christian” your group started in the 1960s
May the Holy Spirit remove the scales from your eyes that you may see. Ephphatha!
God Bless
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Ignatius
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Hi April,
I apologize for anyone who has offended you here. However, I have read through this thread. I have read all of these posts and I cannot find any unkind writings. Could you please point out which posts you found offensive. God Bless.
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Little_Mary
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April
I’m sorry if you have been made to feel hated or whatever. Please know that there are many, many different personalities on these forums, both CAtholic and non-catholic. Furthermore, this type of communication sometimes falls short of a post’s intended meaning (i.e. it might sound rude when the poster didn’t mean it that way).
Anyway, please hang around a while and you’ll come to know what a lovable bunch we really are!!
P.S. I’ve been to other non Catholic sites and have witnessed a lot of Catholic bashing there. Doesn’t make a rude post here OK, but I (personally) think that type of behavior is much worse on other sites. Also imbalanced - a non Catholic seems to have much more “freedome of speech” at other sites than a Catholic does. Again, just my own personal experience.
I’m sorry if you have been made to feel hated or whatever. Please know that there are many, many different personalities on these forums, both CAtholic and non-catholic. Furthermore, this type of communication sometimes falls short of a post’s intended meaning (i.e. it might sound rude when the poster didn’t mean it that way).
Anyway, please hang around a while and you’ll come to know what a lovable bunch we really are!!
P.S. I’ve been to other non Catholic sites and have witnessed a lot of Catholic bashing there. Doesn’t make a rude post here OK, but I (personally) think that type of behavior is much worse on other sites. Also imbalanced - a non Catholic seems to have much more “freedome of speech” at other sites than a Catholic does. Again, just my own personal experience.
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feather
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WOW I didn’t even finish reading it and obviously I am on my way to hell and damnation for an eternity.
Seriously, a good deal of that stuff I didn’t even know. I think you might add to that list of why Catholics don’t evangelize more, the fact the many Catholics. like myself, perhaps don’t know half the teachings of Catholicism. One must know in order to evangelize.
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april_hosen
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Oh geez,
Thank you for your support. Thanks for the love:heart: . But I wasnt suggesting that people were being mean to me. Nope sure wasnt. What I was talking about was instances of Cathlolics saying not so nice things to other Protestants. I just understand what the deal was but one of my Catholic friends Ms. Cheesus explained the jest of it. So thank you again.
Love Always Your Sister In Christ,
April
Thank you for your support. Thanks for the love:heart: . But I wasnt suggesting that people were being mean to me. Nope sure wasnt. What I was talking about was instances of Cathlolics saying not so nice things to other Protestants. I just understand what the deal was but one of my Catholic friends Ms. Cheesus explained the jest of it. So thank you again.
Love Always Your Sister In Christ,
April
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Exporter
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Come on. The biggest difference between a Prot. and aa Catholic ( the big one that make the difference) is:The Catholic goes to confession and recieves the Eucharist. The sacraments!
How can a Prot. ever think he is going to heaven when they do not confess their sins?
How can a Prot. ever think he is going to heaven when they do not confess their sins?
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David_Paul
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The difference between Irish and Protestant Catholics is the Catholic will say hello to you in the liquor store while the Protestant will pretend neither of you are there.
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amanda_nicole82
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Wow, does everybody feel like this? I am Protestant and I confess my sins every day, to the Lord.
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april_hosen
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Hey Exporter,
Whoa, this is new. What is the Eucharist, and what are the sacrements you are talking about?
Love Always Your Sister In Christ,
April
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april_hosen
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Now correct if I’m wrong,
Butdo all Catholics believe this? Just curiosity.
Love AlwaysYour Sister In Christ,
April
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Church_Militant
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Dear April,
I realize that you are still in high school and it appears that your exposure to real Catholics has been limited. Coming from a girl that is Baptist, that is not surprising at all.
To answer your questions about the Eucharist and the the Sacraments let me suggest that you go here to the ma(name removed by moderator)age library and read all this stuff that covers all 7 sacraments better than any of us probably can. I do suggest that you start with the Eucharist and then get into the others and take it as you can because there’s a good bit of stuff there. Anyway: here’s the link. catholic.com/library/sacraments.asp
If you have other questions or just wanna talk about the things you’ve read feel free to post them here or you can post them to the Ask An Apologist forum where there are great people who can help with answers, even a priest named Fr. Serpa who ROCKS!
If ya need more, we’re all here.
Pax tecum, (Peace be with you)
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Kevan
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That seems like a good question to me, but the modern CCC has slipped us in somehow, bless their hearts.
But don’t feel bad. Many an old faithful Catholic felt betrayed in 1966 when Friday abstinence, a matter of mortal sin for centuries, was pronounced optional. But that unpleasantness blew over eventually.
Even so, Catholics used to think that there was no salvation outside the Church, since the Church had said “there’s no salvation outside the Church.” But now they’ve come to see that “outside the Church” doesn’t actually mean “outside the Church,” since practically all of us who are “outside the Church” are really “inside the Church” – which is easy to understand if you’re nimble enough to keep step with Vatican II.
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whitsun
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Ignatius: With all due respect, Samuel Seabury was not the founder of the Episcopal Church; he was the first bishop. The Episcopal Church was a branch of the Anglican Church which split off to become its own church following the American Revolution because it could not pledge loyalty to the British crown.
Peace,
whitsun
Peace,
whitsun
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