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U.S. among most Bible-literate nations: poll
Reuters ^ | April 28, 2008 | Philip Pullella

Posted on 04/30/2008 5:58:37 AM PDT by NYer

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To: MrB
Here's a scary stat for you: 75-88 percent of kids who grew up in a Christian household lose their faith by their sophomore year in college.

Conversely, 94% of homeschooled kids keep their faith all the way through college.

... Yep ... 4 kids, Christian Schools ... We tried public schools, we're done with that non-sense ...

However, the whole family is very involved in a Bible-believing church, which seems to be more important than schooling ... at least to me.

41 posted on 04/30/2008 9:34:57 AM PDT by TexGuy (If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

I am a convert to Catholicism from the Baptist faith. I’ve seen the other side. Please don’t tell me I don’t know how to deal with differing viewpoints; I’ve experienced many of them and found a good number of them to be faulty. I’ve found the truth and the fullness of faith in the Catholic church. If you have a problem with that, well, then, I’m sorry.

It never ceases to amaze me how non-Catholics seem to think they know the faith better than Catholics, and seem to think that linking to a non-Catholic site to refute a point is going to win us over. We’re called to task when WE provide websites that are Catholic and told that these somehow are insufficient. We expect the same level of fairness from you. I don’t need to read a website that tells me I’m going to hell because I’m Catholic.

Remember that what unites us is greater than what divides us. God bless you.


42 posted on 04/30/2008 10:17:20 AM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: Kolokotronis; NYer; All
Sandro Magister's take on the poll:

Reading the Bible. Who, When, Where, How, Why

43 posted on 04/30/2008 10:48:47 AM PDT by ELS (Vivat Benedictus XVI!)
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

Good Post!! I was baptized Southern Baptist. I occasionally now attend Methodist, read the Bible daily as well as thank God for countless blessings. We are all yet Christians. How similar were the original 7 churches? I guarantee there were differences, but all had Jesus Christ at the center.


44 posted on 04/30/2008 10:58:51 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot ((Hallmarks of Liberalism: Ingratitude and Envy))
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To: MrB

because they are not in the parts you read.

Lurking’


45 posted on 04/30/2008 1:30:52 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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To: TexGuy

hey Tex

cute come back

but since NONE of the faithful had bibles prior to the 1500s
what do you think you son would be singing, without a bible??

seriously, how could you have your sola sciptura without the Scriptura?

what did all you protestants, splinter groups, sects and schismatics do before 1500???

Lurking’


46 posted on 04/30/2008 1:37:12 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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To: LurkingSince'98

ThasswhutI’msayin’

point me to the chapter & verse so that I CAN read them.


47 posted on 04/30/2008 1:37:16 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Neoliberalnot

Amen to that!

Lurking’


48 posted on 04/30/2008 1:39:29 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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To: MrB
you don't read the Apocrypha.

Lurking’

49 posted on 04/30/2008 1:40:51 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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To: LurkingSince'98

ah, an “extra-biblical” work


50 posted on 04/30/2008 1:53:01 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: MrB

Obviously, you are not Roman Catholic.

I rest my case.

Lurking’


51 posted on 04/30/2008 1:55:51 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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To: MrB
oh by the way,

whatever sect, schismatic or splinter group you belong to - you are certainly way too young to remember - but if you went back and got your grandpa’s Bible you would find the “extra biblical” as you put it Apocrypha.

You will be surprised to know that until the 1930s most “protestant” bibles included the deuterocanonical parts of the bible you call “extra-biblical”.

I guess it's only “extra-biblical” for you - not your forefathers.

Lurking’

52 posted on 04/30/2008 2:03:14 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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To: LurkingSince'98
especially the parts about Purgatory

Hahaha.

53 posted on 04/30/2008 9:08:14 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep
this applies to you too-- whatever sect, schismatic or splinter group you belong to - you are certainly way too young to remember - but if you went back and got your grandpa’s Bible you would find the Apocrypha. You will be surprised to know that until the 1930s most “protestant” bibles included the deuterocanonical parts of the bible caled the Apocrypha. I guess it was ok for your forefathers but not for you. Lurking’
54 posted on 04/30/2008 9:33:40 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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To: nwrep
this applies to you too-- whatever sect, schismatic or splinter group you belong to - you are certainly way too young to remember - but if you went back and got your grandpa’s Bible you would find the Apocrypha. You will be surprised to know that until the 1930s most “protestant” bibles included the deuterocanonical parts of the bible caled the Apocrypha. I guess it was ok for your forefathers but not for you. Lurking’
55 posted on 04/30/2008 9:33:41 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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To: NYer

I think that the secularism and anti-Christian viewpoints in academia as well as in our entertainment makes us much better Catholic/Christians, at least those of us that survive with our faith intact. We study, pray and learn because of it.

An item like this should have us reinforcing our Christian beliefs, rather than attacking each other for our faith traditions.

Does God love this person more than that person because of their style of devotion?


56 posted on 04/30/2008 10:01:31 PM PDT by mckenzie7 (Lib NO MORE!)
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To: Southerngl

No problem. That’s why I ended my post with a smiley face. I live in the South and there are often people here who don’t have a lot of experience with Catholics....and I understand this. ;-)


57 posted on 05/01/2008 4:32:35 AM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: NYer

Doesn’t surprise me that Poland was up there, even before reading I knew Poland would be close with America. The Polish know the true evil of Communism and Atheism and the true love of God. I have always said if I couldn’t live in America I would choose Poland. (Most people laugh at me or give me blank stares.)


58 posted on 06/19/2008 11:44:56 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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