Your Religious Heritage

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Matthew_Light said:
Would a Jew who was convinced that Jesus is the Messiah and became a Christian be “cutting herself off from her heritage”? Should she convert?
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Most of the Jews I know who convert to Christianity claim not to be cutting themselves off from their heritage.

Jews (non-Christian, mainstream Jews) of course disagree.

So there’s an obvious difference (reflected, I hope, in my post) between the question of whether your community of origin thinks you are cutting yourself off and whether you think you are.

For me the one concrete act of “cutting oneself off” is no longer being able to receive Communion in Protestant churches.

I have often thought about whether the same issues that prevent me from becoming Catholic would prevent me from becoming Christian if I were not already one. And certainly they would be obstacles. The main difference I can see is Jesus. That is to say, one could come to faith in Jesus and swallow the Church for Jesus’ sake. But when one already believes in Jesus and is persuaded that Catholicism, rightly understood, is the fullest manifestation of orthodox Christianity, that motivator isn’t quite as powerful.

But I am in fact ambivalent about conversions to Christianity that cut people off from their heritages.

Edwin
 
My mother’s side is largely Lutheran (from Scandinavia originally), with a handful of Catholics. My father’s side is largely Methodist, with some Lutherans going back to Austria/Germany. Some of my very distant relatives were actually Austrian Mennonite at one point.

Obviously, if you go back far enough, everybody was Catholic. 😃
 
seanman611 said:
My mother’s side is largely Lutheran (from Scandinavia originally), with a handful of Catholics. My father’s side is largely Methodist, with some Lutherans going back to Austria/Germany. Some of my very distant relatives were actually Austrian Mennonite at one point.

Obviously, if you go back far enough, everybody was Catholic. 😃
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And pagan if you go even further back. . . .

Edwin
 
My ancestors were Catholic.
True, perhaps at one time in Ireland they were pagan.
 
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