(Two;36609)
This coming from someone who has more than likely never set foot in a Catholic church. You know I am reading this kind of crap all over other places as well and it sickens the hell out of me to think that people can be so arrogant to think that one religion is so much better than the other. Tell me where it says in the Bible thou shall not be Catholic, Jew, Lutheran, Baptists or whatever. You can't because they don't exist. There is totally no call for someone to bash the Catholic faith ye of little knowledge. I have always been told you got nothing good to say then say nothing.The accusations and remarks about the Catholic faith are totally unfounded and ridiculous. Sorry did not mean to rant but this crap is absurd...........
Just so you know Two; I was borne, raised, and baptized in and of The Roman Catholic Rite. I was confirmed in the Roman Catholic faith (at Holy Rosary) at the appropriate age, received my first communion there as well. Many of my cousins were alter boys. I never was, but thought this was only because I wasn’t asked to be. Attendance for Mass was every Sunday. Being ill or having to catch a ride made little difference. I went to Catechism class once a week - every week for many years. My family and I went to church on and observed almost every one of the holy days and days of obligation. Midnight mass without exception, Palm Sunday etc, etc (without exception.) Gave up sacrifices every lint. We (my family and I), or even just me and a couple of my brothers or father would go to confession on Saturday sometimes in addition to Sunday.I really don’t think its fare to assume I have nothing to say on the faith, or that I am lacking in understanding. I might even know more than you. From birth to about 21 years of age I lived and breathed in the Roman Catholic Church. One of my best friends at the time actually competed in statewide competitions held by the church. I would sometimes accompany him or his younger brothers as they contended for our common faith. You want to know the current book I am in? Its called: Why Do Catholics Do That? A Guide to Teachings and Practices of the Catholic Church. By Kevin Orlin Johnson, PH.D. Originally entitled Expressions of the Catholic Faith.When I was about 19 I felt a strong calling from God. I wanted to become a priest and was beginning to make the appropriate preparations. I was so fervent and knew so much about the faith and contended so well; I actually had one of my younger brother’s friends, only a few years younger than I, seriously ask me to be his god-father. I was an on fire Catholic. What I really was, was on fire for God, and I happened to be a practicing Catholic at the time. So I used everything I knew to contend for that faith. I can probably contend as well as you can even today - the difference being that I now contend for God and not for a religion.The problem arises that sometime down the line, if you are really following after God, He is going to test you. If that day comes and comes again; you’ll eventually find that there is so much more to God than doctrines of men and their traditions. I am assured in you that given you are a human you most likely already understand this. However, when you really seek after God’s heart He will show you those things which are pleasing to Him over those things which are not. Observing of days, forbidding to marry, statues, prayers beads, etc, these may seem good and all well intentioned, but they are not things those whom spiritual discernment abides with posses or put to use.Any answer you can give me, I’ve already heard, and probably already told to many others. This is why intentions have nothing to do with it. You can defend the wrong faith or even the wrong things. You can even unknowingly call evil good and good evil. If you read through 1 Timothy there is a verse there directly aimed at the practices of the Catholic Church and concerning the end times and the falling away, the doctrine of demons, etc. Peter had a wife. Time and time again Paul says that a Bishop should be the husband of one wife. Peter had a vision from God that he could eat all things, that all was clean.
1 Timothy 4:1-31 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.This is precisely the Catholic religion; they forbid to marry and they abstain from meats and observe holy days, another thing in contradiction to God's word.