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To: metmom
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!

296 posted on 05/17/2012 5:21:47 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums; metmom
"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."

How can you complain about being dismissed as "hateful, anti-Catholic, dismissive, disdainful, rude, insulting, and completely fallacious" and then in the same post make a statement like that? If you expect Catholics to cheerfully accept the kind of ridicule and abuse that is poured out on them on a daily basis you don't understand human psychology any better than you understand Catholic theology.

The Church does not teach that Salvation cannot be achieved by non-Catholics, but only through those things provided by the Church. The Church does not, cannot and never has claimed the ability to condemn anyone to hell. The Church does not deny that evil deeds have been done by those claiming to be Catholic or acting in the name of the Church but the Church itself and its doctrines is not evil or accursed. The repeated accusations that it is evil and accursed are what damages your credibility and precipitates the kind of response you are complaining about. So, in the name of God whom we both claim to serve and worship, let's be honest about what the Catholic Church is and is not and what your church is and is not.

May God continue to Bless you.

297 posted on 05/17/2012 6:06:44 PM PDT by Natural Law (Mary was the face that God chose for Himself.)
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