I’ve met a lot of converts from Roman Catholicism to protestantism, but I find that evangelicals would rather highlight converts from atheism. The Journey Home’s focus on people converting from protestantism shows, to me, that too many Catholics are more interested in scoring points against protestants, than in winning souls from atheism for Christ. That seems to be the work of evangelical protestants.
Not saying there are not many fallen away Catholics that are now protestants. But tell me how many former Catholic theologians, well-grounded in the Christian faith, decided Catholism was in error so they jumped to protestantism. I guess there might be one out there but I’ve never heard of any. Now there are plenty of former Catholics that were never strong Catholics to start with that become protestant. Hardly any were devout that attended Mass on a regular basis. That hardly ever happens. There’s literally hundreds of thousands of astute former protestants that knew the Bible from cover to cover that become Catholic. And none of them do it on the spur of the moment. It is always a well-rounded decision they came to after years of studying the Christian faith and praying a lot. Many former protestant pastors have converted, not too many former Catholic priests, unless he wanted to get married and couldn’t in the Catholic faith. That’s usually why a Catholic priest leaves the faith, and that’s not too many.
“The Journey Home’s focus on people converting from protestantism shows, to me, that too many Catholics are more interested in scoring points against protestants, than in winning souls from atheism for Christ.”
No. It’s just that the most common Catholic converts in the English speaking world are Protestants.
“That seems to be the work of evangelical protestants.”
Well, at least Protestants might be doing a very useful thing. Catholics have been introducing people to Christ for 2,000 years. Protestants can stand to do a little constructive work.
That's a good point.
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Your assessment is totally inaccurate. Go to the following page, and scroll down to "categories" & "denominations", and select the "Atheist/Agnostic" category, which has 49 episodes.
"Journey Home" episodes by denominations, and other faith practices
(In addition to those atheist episodes, and the many different kinds of Protestant episodes, there are also many other non-Protestant categories there as well -- check and see for yourself, and while there, why don't you watch a few episodes? They are very interesting.)
I agree. It seems like they are very insecure and try to convince others. We do not have to try that hard because we are very secure in our beliefs. I know a young man who did just that—went from bot believing in God to a committed Christian. I did not even ask what church he goes to. As long as it is a Bible believing one, who cares?
I just typed in “Catholics who left church to become Protestants”, and a ton of sites popped up. They are out there.