Since you are a self-professed former Catholic who purports to know all thing Catholic you should know better, but I guess that's what makes a lie a lie.
Seriously, there is no point in any Catholic being on this thread. People who want to hate the Church will manufacture any excuse to do so. I find no visible signs of intelligence here, so, see you around.
Natural Law:
It is funny how many of these Former Catholics, who profess to be so happy, all seem to be so angry. Why is that? It has been my experience that there was something they did in their early life and some Protestant group comes along with “cheap grace theology” and that leads them to bash the Catholic Church. No more need to examine ones conscience because I have a “get out of jail card from monopoly” to go straight to heaven.
The Protestants who become Catholic don’t bash their former tradition they just see it as a place where the Christian faith was first learned and lived but see their move to Catholic Full Communion as the historic expression of CHristianity and thus they are now in communion with all believers down thru the centuries.
Norman Geisler, I think is how you spell it, was quoted on some Catholic Blog that I read when he was asked about all of the Theologians and Pastors, etc from Prosetantism becoming Catholic:
His Answer was something to the effect that: Yes, the Catholics are doing a good job with attracting the intellectual eggheads as it is a much richer, historical and intellectual tradition.
On the other hand, we are getting larger numbers and while those larger numbers tend to come from the “bottom of the barrel of Catholicism”, that bodes well for us.
I found that interesting. It basically says that Evangelical Protestantism is a dummed down theology that is attractive to the “bottom of the barrel types”, i.e. in this case, bottom of the Barrel Catholics.
Geisler’s statements kind of support what most Catholics know, that poor catechesis starting in the late 60’s and 70’s and poor formation led to many Catholics ignorant of the basic tenants of the Faith and without the intellectual and philosophical formation to see evangelical theology for what it is, cheap grace and Christianity lite or 101 and unforunately, some of those “bottom of the barrel Catholics”, as Geisler refered to them, embraced it.
Longer term, The Catholic Church will be the much better for it because it will have the ability to withstand the forces of secularism and rationalism and actually challenge it. Protantism, with its divided groups will not be able to and continue to fragment as it has since the 16th century when you had basically 3 Protestant Groups, the Anglicans, the Reformed-Calvinist and the Lutherans. There is way more than just those 3 now and the Prots here can spin, pound their hands on the table, shout, etc, etc, it doesn’t change the fact.