Show me one verse in Scripture that says every Christian has religious freedom and I will become Protestant again...
Are you saying that you chose to become Catholic? What was it that convinced to revert to something so plainly devoid of Christ's teachings? I did not leave Protestantism....I left Christendom because all their core doctrines are the same, originating from the same place......ancient Babylon.
Some background....
"In 313 C.E., persecution of Christians by the Roman world came to an end under Constantine, with the Edict of Milan, which granted freedom of religion to Christians and pagans alike. The legalization of “Christianity” in the Roman Empire turned the tide. However, about 340 C.E., a professed Christian writer called for the persecution of pagans. Finally, in 392 C.E., by means of the Edict of Constantinople, Emperor Theodosius I banned paganism within the empire, and religious freedom died a premature death. With Roman “Christianity” as the State religion, Church and State embarked on a campaign of persecution that lasted for centuries, reaching its zenith in the bloody Crusades of the 11th to the 13th centuries and in the cruelty of the Inquisitions, which began in the 12th century. Those daring to question the established orthodoxy, the monopoly of dogma, were branded as heretics and tracked down in the witch-hunt climate of the time."
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200272255/4/0
This is all in recorded history.
With that background in mind, go back to original Christianity and ask what Jesus did? He preached his message without force and compelled no one to become his disciple. To be baptized as a Christian was not something imposed by birth but something that was to be the choice of one hearing the Christian message and acting on it of their own free will.
That is religious freedom. I am not talking about being free to believe whatever you wish....but to follow the teachings of Christ in all things. I have never seen the Catholic church do that...ever.
Can you see how your theory and revision of history makes no sense???
Only from your perspective.....it makes perfect sense from mine.
Your interpretation of what I say is not entirely accurate, reading into my words what I did not say or infer.
Do you ever have doubts Jane?
No. With over 50 years of solid study using all the tools that are available to all of us online, these resources have helped me tremendously.
Like the ancient Beroeans, I carefully check everything I have been taught to make sure it is backed up by the only source of information I trust.....God's word, which contrary to popular Catholic opinion, is not the work of the church, but the work of God, who can use even his enemies to have his will accomplished. Look what Jesus said about the Religious Leaders of his day (Matthew 23).....yet these are the people who produced his Christ on earth.....Jesus did not have a good word to say about them.....he even called their father the devil. He abandoned them because they did exactly what the church did after Jesus' death. They gradually introduced man-made traditions that made the word of God "invalid". (Matthew 15:3-9)