Sent via Galaxy wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 9:51 am
Burner Prime wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 4:07 am
Guest wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 12:59 am
Walk into a church and call people 'fake Christians' and you expect them to not react? Spew what BP spews and if it bothers you, you're a 'snow flake' who has been triggered? BP is nor making the world a better place to live.
So, if I call your mother a whore and you react, you're triggered?
You are as hypocritical as the SJWs.
You want one-sided battles without fear of reaction. You're the snowflake.
When the SHTF, people like BP will be looting and killing, and even worse. You'll learn lessons the hard way, CB.
Simple solution for you "Guest": don't read my posts.
A lot of what you accuse others of smells a lot like projection. I suspect you have a lot of problems outside this forum, that's why I didn't respond to you earlier.
Instead of lashing out here, go debate or get answers from an Orthodox Priest or dissident Catholic Priest. They will have the knowledge you seek but are rebelling against.
Get over yourself. If you are going to look to the Catholic church to save you, you have no business giving advice to anyone. The Pope doesn't care about you. I've got some bad news, Burner : No one is going to save you. You have to save yourself.
It is our Catholic FAITH we look to for salvation, not merely the earthly institution of the Church, or the (imperfect) men who run it. Fake Christian is an uncharitable description of Protestants, and Burner owes an apology for using such a term.
However, logically speaking, if you are a Christian there can only be one Way that contains within it the entire fullness of the faith. The question is - which is it? Aside from the Catholic Church, there are now about 40,000 Protestant denominations. They can’t all be true and correct. Some accept homosexuality, some find it an abomination; abortion is OK to some, but murder to others. Can anyone here make an argument for which one IS the one besides the Catholic Church? Convince me and I’ll convert tomorrow.
It makes no sense that Jesus would allow himself to be crucified so that all his followers could continue to do and say whatever they wanted, and still call themselves "Christian”. Hence, there must be one set of doctrinal teachings that most closely fit with his original teachings. I believe those are present in the Catholic Church.
I’m amazed at the many conversations I’ve had with Protestant friends who act as if Christian history started at the Reformation, and that nothing before that mattered. The Church has writings that go all the way back to the beginning (St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Justin Martyr, etc.) Somehow, 1500 years of settled Christian teaching and practice were wrong? If so, even the Apostles must be burning in Hell, for they were responsible for spreading the heresy.
Even more amusing is my Protestant homeschooling friends who make their children study Aquinas, Augustine, and other Doctors of the Church, without the least bit of irony about the fact that they were Catholic.
When Catholics talk about “surviving” it’s not just about physical preparation. We are, after all, in this world but not of it. Our most important preparations are for the world to come.
The same should be true for all Christians. My experience is that most who leave the Church “feel” their way out. Most who return “think’ their way back. While you’re stocking up on guns, ammo, and food, also take stock of your spiritual fitness.