Thank you for that post, Born.
I confess, I purposely visited anti-Catholic sites while I was in RCIA. I wanted to know what the arguments were against Catholicism, to make sure I knew what I was getting into.The title pretty much speaks for itself, but please note that I’m not asking what *repels *Catholics from anti-Catholic forums.
Oh, and Protestants are welcome to answer too. (Just to be nice.)
LOL! Good plan. I am glad you were not scared away.I confess, I purposely visited anti-Catholic sites while I was in RCIA. I wanted to know what the arguments were against Catholicism, to make sure I knew what I was getting into.
I didn’t really discover any arguments. A lot of talk about Saints and sacramentals, and how ridiculous Catholics are for believing in both.
But if a “reasonable Protestant” presented well thought out biblical and historical arguments against Catholicism wouldn’t that deem them an “anti-Catholic” in the eyes of most Catholics here?
I wouldn’t consider them anti Catholic if they did it with charity. We have a non Catholic forum and many such posters post as such and several are good friends on the board.
Well, I’ll think about that but I don’t think I’m going to be able to answer you. I don’t have the ability to see through the eyes of most (or even many) Catholics on the CA forums.
This, of course, is not an anti-Catholic forum although over the time that I’ve been a member I’ve seen some posts and some of my earliest posts were misconstrued to be anti-Catholic when I worded a question or post wrong.
Yeah don’t you hate when Catholics act like Protestants?
Kidding! Kidding! (Well sort of.)
But seriously, welcome to the forum.
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I totally concur - I love reading Melzerboy’s posts (thanks Melzerboy) - particularly since I am a Jewish believer who crossed the Tiber - I appreciate his perspective from the perspective of Judaism.No, me either. I am always trying to keep my online time down so I don’t do a lot of forum lurking. That said, I have tried a few Orthodox ones recently - no Protestant ones yet. Catholics get scorched by some Orthodox. (by ex-Evangelicals, but also some traditional (ethnic) Orthodox too) I am afraid to post but I hope to soon - I am reviewing threads and trying see if there is any point - if there are enough informed serious people to bother.
Yes, when it crosses the line of responsible commentary or “dialogue” as a Christian, it is just malice. I wouldn’t even attribute those kind of posts to a serious representative of his/her claimed denomination. And that is the key point. You don’t even know if these posters go to a Church. Which is why the internet plus reality is so so much better than just the former in terms of talking to other denominations about where they are at with us and vice versa.
It is sad in a way - this kind of internet dialogue could be so helpful and informative if done properly. Sometimes I think the crazies drive away the serious “normals” from threads or forums. Maybe you just need to choose your sites carefully - really check them out from top to bottom before reading and posting on forums. Sharing info on this would be good too - good sites, bad sites.