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You may know your Protestant religion well. but you are a very confused individual when it comes to the Catholic Church. Yes, the Catholic Church teaches that the Catholic Church is the “one, true, holy and apostolic Church”, but that is not necessarily what is taught by every individual who walks the halls of the Vatican in Rome. In fact, you actually should be embracing many of them because they’re really trying to sound like you. The Second Vatican Council did as much as it possible could to confuse that issue with adopting their false “ecumenism”, and to lead people to believe that they would be saved by following a religion other than that of the Roman Catholic Church. You may be saved by living a good life “in spite of” your religion, but not “because of” it.

So if that’s your problem with Catholicism, you should be jumping for joy with the Modernist Catholic bishops and popes who promote this false ecumenism and do their best to suggest that those many other false religions are “almost” as good as the Catholic Church. Sadly, some Catholic clerics and religious even go so far as to suggest that one religion is as good as another. Mother Teresa, the soon to be saint of the Catholic Church, has said as much. Sorry, but that is not the true teaching of the Church and traditional Catholics follow the true teaching.

For your information, the Roman Catholic Church is the one and only true Church founded by Jesus Christ, and that every other religion (N.B. every other religion) is false. That includes the Evangelicals, the Baptists, the Muslims and so forth. It is the duty of every faithful Catholic to teach the truth to those who are not Catholic, and to encourage them to join this one true religion. Whether they do or not is their choice. And whether you want to believe that or not (which you clearly do not), is your choice. But it is the teaching of the true Catholic faith.

As for the issue you raise about Rome not being very “likable”, please understand that the goal of the Catholic Church is not to be more “likable”, in spite of the fact that many of the Modernist Catholics today often tend to think that same way. Understand that being a “likable” religion is a Protestant thought, not one of the true Catholic Church. The only issue is the “truth” of what is being professed and what is being followed. You may call that “arrogance”, and at some level it may well be seen as just that; but if you believe that professing the truth taught by the doctrines of the one true Church founded by Jesus Christ is to be “arrogant”, then you are entitled to your opinion. But for a Catholic to deny those doctrines is sinful.

You may know your Protestant religion well. but you are a very confused individual when it comes to the Catholic Church.

Thanks...for nothing.

First, not a member of a traditional Protestant church anymore. Second, have NEVER claimed great knowledge of the Roman Catholic church in which I'm less and less curious as I read such FR posts as yours.

I stopped reading at your first insulting statement of your ignorance and do not wish to hear more from you regarding the supremacy of the RCC over the Church the Lord Jesus Christ founded on Himself with Christ alone as the Head.

Your initial burst of posting arrogance produced no fruit at all.