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To: Resettozero
OK, I can see what you're saying. It seems like a reasonable inference, and thanks for taking the time and the thought.

However "Get back to where you belong" could also, and reasonably, be applied to anyone on God's green earth, since "where we belong" is within the will of God; God wills that all men be saved, and come to a knowledge of the Truth; and Christ established His church for a reason, namely to be the "pillar and foundation of the Truth."

So it stacks up to be practically a syllogism. If not quite apodictic, it's at least a reasonable inference that everybody ought to be a member of that Church which He founded, which is the Body of Christ.

I wouldn't expect all the members of the FReeper Brethren Fellowship to snap to attention and say "Oh, I get it, I'm supposed to be a Catholic" --- most people are not, actually, much moved by reasonable inferences --- but this might give you an insight on how a Catholic would see it.

41 posted on 07/23/2014 10:35:36 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you" John 6:53)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
...but this might give you an insight on how a Catholic would see it.

Thank you for your insight.

To me, the article amounted to a salespitch for a particular brand of religion (what is ordinarily referred to as the Roman Catholic Church) and divides the Faithful rather than unites.
50 posted on 07/23/2014 11:39:20 AM PDT by Resettozero
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