[Always Right]

However, his basis for theological conversion seems to be one of his own failings - not the fallibility of his former faith.

And of course there are more defections from the Catholic Church to Protestant Churches, so I am not sure what this series if postings is suppose to show.

[andysandmikesmom]

I have known equal numbers of Catholics, who left the Catholic faith to become Protestants, and Protestants who have left their faith to become Catholics...so my real life experience does not agree at all with your statement....

So I would like to see some facts and evidence to back up your assertion that many more Catholics defect to Protestant churches, than there are Protestants who defect to Catholic churches....

Not that actual numbers mean anything...what does mean something, is who has got their interpretations from the Bible correctly...

However, thanks in advance for any evidence or facts that you can present to prove your point....I like to see such assertions, backed up with facts and evidence, rather than with anecdotal stories, which is frankly, all I have to go on, anecdotal stores from my own life....if I relied on my own anecdotal stories from my own life, I would have to say that defections from Catholic to Protestant, and Protestant to Catholic, are about even, but you seem to state as fact, something quite different...

Also one must take into account that the reasons that one goes from one religion to another, are often many and varied, and are not always based on a newer or different understanding of Scriptures...sometimes the reason for the defection, is actually something quite different...at least, that has been my real life experience, based of course, only on anecdotal stories...

[annalex]

what this series if postings is suppose to show.

I want to show the reasons people come home to the Catholic Church and various paths of conversion. I do not dispute that conversions in the opposite direction also happen; in fact, I would be happy to contrast the two patterns because from what I've seen, they are very different.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I'm not pushing an anti-Catholic theme, and, for my money, there are plenty of Protestant churches that would be far and away worse choices. Heck, even the Southern Baptists had to fight a pitched battle for a long time to oust the apostates among them and purge the ecumenical types. If you'll recall, former President Jim-mah Carter left the SB church, too, after their reformation and wrote a public letter denouncing their lack of inclusivity, etc., etc., etc.

No, what I'm getting at is this guy's self-admitted and blatantly non-Scriptural approach to “ministry” and, by extension, the general prescription for family life and order that precedes “ministry.” For these reasons I do not find it surprising that he found fault in his faith and went looking elsewhere for “meaning.”