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NL:”I invite you to provide your definition of “almost all” for me. I have gone back through your entire posting history since the first of the year. I have seen hundreds of posts that about the Catholic Church (RCs, RCC, “they, etc.) While I have seen hundreds of posts that I find to be dismissive, disdainful, rude, insulting, and completely fallacious about Catholics, the Church and its doctrines, the one thing I did not see was any citation of the Catechism or references to it. “

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The source I overwhelmingly use to support myself is Scripture (which FWIW, the RCC itself claims to have written) and I post those in blue and/or red for ease of identifying. I have used the Catholic Bible on occasion and any site I use for Catholic doctrine has overwhelmingly been vatican.va. There have been a few other sources that I’ve used which I’ve seen Catholics themselves reference.

I do not and never have posted from sites listed on the RM’s homepage as banned.

Here’s one post where I quoted the CATHOLIC Bible.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2871838/posts?page=92#92

Here’s a post from a Catholic site...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2841954/posts?page=191#191

Here I posted canons from the Council of Trent at hanover.edu.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2841259/posts?page=237#237
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2828283/posts?page=269#269
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2825733/posts?page=475#475

Here is a post to a FR thread posted by a FRoman Catholic.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2834651/posts?page=1066#1066

Here are posts citing several different Catholic sources...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2833447/posts?page=226#226
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2833447/posts?page=74#74

If you did not see any citations or references to the CCC perhaps you need to look harder. The above links support my claim.

I think those of us who post frequently on the Religion Forum know good and well that no matter where our sources come from, if they go against the perceived "infallibility" of the Catholic Church it will be dismissed as semantics, hate, anti-Catholic, dismissive, disdainful, rude, insulting, and completely fallacious about Catholics, the Church and its doctrines. What I have learned over these years is that some adherents are incapable of believing anything negative regardless of how well sourced a comment may be.

I thank God that He opened my spiritual eyes and allowed me to escape from the false and accursed gospel and into the light of the truth. All we can do is to continue to speak the truth in love and give the glory to God when the Holy Spirit turns a heart of stone into a heart of flesh. One plants, another waters, but God gives the increase. Amen!