Posted on 08/07/2010 3:38:50 PM PDT by Salvation
You wrote:
“It is mystifying!”
The truth often is to some.
Oh, I very much agree with the Church’s condemnation of abortion.
Pope Benedict’s grand project of reunifying and revitalizing Christianity seems increasingly plausible. This elderly, conservative German theological may prove to be as consequential a Pope as John Paul II.
The biggest mistake of the Human mind is not what you think is right but what you know for certain is wrong. Who is “we” ? are you Legion?
You wrote:
“Do Catholics believe evangelical Christians have the same ticket to heaven?”
Catholics believe non-Catholics can be saved. What is arrogance and meanspiritiedness is to assume people are unsaved just because they went from a newfangled sect created less than 500 years ago to the Church Christ extablished almost 2,000 years ago.
You wrote:
“The biggest mistake of the Human mind is not what you think is right but what you know for certain is wrong. Who is “we” ? are you Legion?”
No, I am Catholic. Ane we probably know the Bible better than you do.
Well 54% of those Catholic voters voted for Obama, it has always been the norm for Catholics to vote liberal, the exceptions have been rare.
If we can get Catholics to vote like Protestants then we could stop abortion.
Probably not. But if you do, why don’t you follow what it told you? Not only what to do but the things you are doing that it told you not to do.
Since Catholics vote proabortion and are more proabortion than even the giant pool of simply "Protestant", then we have to hope that the Evangelicals that are supposedly becoming Catholic do not vote as Catholics but as the ultra pro-life, ultra conservative Evangelical group that they are supposedly leaving.
You wrote:
“Well 54% of those Catholic voters voted for Obama, it has always been the norm for Catholics to vote liberal, the exceptions have been rare.”
Actually no. Liberalism as a political force in America is truly less than 80 years old. Catholics have been voting longer than that.
You wrote:
“Probably not.”
Nope. We probably do.
“But if you do, why don’t you follow what it told you?”
I do. That’s why I am not Protestant.
“Not only what to do but the things you are doing that it told you not to do.”
I am not doing anything that it told me not to do. Your presumption is amazing - and typical of the anti-Catholic.
“If we can get Catholics to vote like Protestants then we could stop abortion.”
You mean Protestants like the Clintons?
You wrote:
“Yes, but evangelicals believe Catholics can also be saved - by switching to the evangelical practice of the faith.”
And there we go with the arrogance and presumption.
“Do Catholics believe that evangelicals (who are surely as earnest in their faith in Christ’s salvation as any other denomination) will go to heaven without switching to Catholicism?”
This is possible.
“Or are both sides pretty much the same in how they regard each other?”
They are not.
A saved man would never choose a faith that believes the cross is insufficient.
We know which followers God has saved..the scriptures tell us ...
This false teaching is what ultimately led to the Reformation, which sought only to return the church to the teachings of the Gospel and not the musings of any number of corrupt priests and "Popes." For this, Luther was excommunicated and had a price put on his head.
Many Catholics are grotesquely ignorant about the history of their own church. Their reulting bigotries and stupidities do not go down well among the educated Christian community.
Catholics have been supporting the left since Catholic immigration first started in the 1830s, but even in the last 80 years the Catholics have voted against the Republicans in all but 5 elections of the 20 elections since 1932. Protestants voted against the Democrats in all but 3 of those 20 races (1932,1936,1964), Even FDR had to count on the overwhelmingly liberal Catholic vote in 1940 and 1944 because Protestants were voting Republican.
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