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Well, to be frank, you believe that your body is your own to do with as you see fit. You believe in bodily autonomy, and that the Church has no right to constrain you in this regard.

This isn’t really surprising. “The church has no right to tell ME what to do”. Fair enough, but I’m pretty certain I’m correct here.

Romans 14:7-12 7 For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. 9 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

10 Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; 11 for it is written,

“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”

12 So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.

I answer to God, not you, not your church.

I will not answer any question from anyone that is designed to be used against me in any form to pass judgment on my spirituality or whether or not I am a Christian according to the interrogator.

And that's all I ever see the questioning that Catholics have been hounding me with on various subjects to be doing. Finding out where where I stand on certain issues so's they can determine based on their own criteria whether I'm a *real* Christian or not.

That is not their call and I refuse to participate in it. Their opinion on my being a Christian or not is meaningless to me.

Well, to be frank, you believe that your body is your own to do with as you see fit.

That is mind reading.....

And you are wrong.

You believe in bodily autonomy, and that the Church has no right to constrain you in this regard.

The church has no authority over anyone but those who choose to place themselves under it. I am free in Christ and will not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

This isn’t really surprising. “The church has no right to tell ME what to do”. Fair enough, but I’m pretty certain I’m correct here.

The *church* hasn't been given the *right* to tell ANYONE what to do. It may lay claim to it, but it wasn't given to them.