Scare tactics used towards Catholics

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Put it into perspective. Whatever attacks or insults we suffer, the saints before us suffered more, and before them, the martyrs, and before them the Apostles, and before them, Jesus Christ.
 
I take such moments as opportunities God is using to teach me something about the faith and its place in my life.

I lost friends when I chose to join the church. I got told I was being stupid, that I was a traitor to my gender, that it was an idiotic, backwards choice, blah blah blah… Those friends ignored me when I tried to explain that I finally felt like I had figured out who I was and where I belonged, and that I wasn’t giving anything up to become Catholic - I was gaining everything. They ignored me when I tried to explain how this choice was literally saving my life, because before I had come to realize the place God needed to have in my life, I couldn’t understand why I was bothering with life.

I nearly walked away because of it, but I didn’t. I prayed about it and realized - God accepted me, no questions asked. He didn’t ask me to give up my friends. He didn’t push me into a corner and force me to choose. It was my “friends” who had done that.

It was an easy choice after that.

I trust God, and I believe in my faith. When people attack me, I always invite them to have a conversation so we can understand each other, but firmly explain I won’t put up with hateful intolerant behaviour.
 
I think Jesus’ advice of shaking the dust from your sandals and moving on would apply here.

not much we can really do if someone refuses to listen to anything
 
It is easier to hate than to love, it is easier to destroy than to build. It is easier to call people name’s, than to call people’s claims.

And if I stoop to that level, they have won.
 
Being open minded means agreeing with everything they say. They’re ignorant people and speak ignorantly as well. Usually their ideas lack evidence and are just based on social media, pop culture, or what they want to be true and when you confront them with facts they’ll call you names. Or they’ll whine “That’s just your opinion” as though there is no such thing as truth. Seems like those people worship ignorance and feelings.
 
It is a tactic of liberals and the left and it is designed to shut you up. Unfortunately it seems to work in some cases when you hear from a Catholic that we only need to live our Faith. I’m sure the apostles would have liked to have known that as most of them died preaching the Truth of Jesus Christ and His Church. Turning the other cheek also means standing your ground.
 
It depends. Some catholics hide their actual bigotry behind Catholic values. Others are honestly just being good Catholics and are facing persecution from the world. I think it’s important to actually listen to these accusations to determine where you fall. It’s a no win situation definitely, but I think it’s important to examine your views to see if there’s any room for sin to grow. It’s usually very sinister and unnoticeable.
 
The Church loves the flood of illegals because it fills the pews and the offerings go up. Dems love them because they view them as votes. I’m not sure what’s suspect about favouring guarding the border. I also don’t care much for the Pope’s (name removed by moderator)ut, seeing as he does not live in the US and he lives behind the walls and guards of the Vatican City State.
 
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I don’t know of any Catholic that is against legal immigration.
 
The Church is pro-immigrant. The problem is that the left has conflated legal immigrants and illegal immigrants into the single word “immigrants”. They are trying to make us think of them as a single group. They are not. There is a vast difference between these two groups.

The Church also says that countries have a right to borders and to protect same. We do need more legal immigrants. We do not need open borders and more illegal immigrants.
 
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After we’re done chastising our worthless leaders for their treasonous failures, we should expect more from Mexico. Either they clear out the cartels and provide border security or they should join us and pay taxes.
 
Understood, however, I’d give them an opportunity to grow up and be autonomous first. They’d likely fail on their own so I think they should just pay taxes and we’ll be one big happy family.
 
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Guess it depends on the family. My family is very conservative, die hard elephants who consider me to have become more and more bleeding heart liberal the longer I have been Catholic.
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The first bleeding heart I know of was that of one Yeshua of Nazareth, and his heart bled because a soldier thrust a lance through it.
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The Church loves the flood of illegals because it fills the pews and the offerings go up.
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  1. Oh that old money-grubbing Church.
  2. And those illegal immigrants are so rich.
  3. And Catholic, every one.
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Dems love them because they view them as votes.
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And they all vote, because you don’t have to actually be a citizen to vote in the United States.
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I’m not sure what’s suspect about favouring guarding the border.
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I don’t see anyone arguing against guarding the border.
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I also don’t care much for the Pope’s (name removed by moderator)ut, seeing as he does not live in the US and he lives behind the walls and guards of the Vatican City State.
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I suppose you won’t care much for my (name removed by moderator)ut either seeing as I’m a Canadian and live behind the Canadian-American border.

My own take on it is the Church wants us to love people as Christ told us to.
 
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“I suppose you won’t care much for my (name removed by moderator)ut either seeing as I’m a Canadian and live behind the Canadian-American border.”

Right about one thing 😉
 
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