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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am cradle Catholic my wife is a convert from Protestantism.  (Nothing to do with politics and she's more liberal than me.)

I like converts because one thing most Protestant denominations do well is keep it simple and keep it about Jesus.  Sometimes Catholics get distracted with all the smells and bells and the canon law and the history and the debates and forget the MOST important thing is connecting with and conforming our soul to the Source.  The easiest way to do that is to understand that the Source came down and took human form to show us the path to eternal life and follow the example He set for us.  If someone starts there, you can build outward to infinity.  But if you forget the basics, everything falls apart.

I could make various other criticisms of Protestantism but they tend to get that simple part right in their teaching more often than Catholics.  [/quote]

This is a really good example of something cradle Catholic would never say or would be met with a deer in headlights.

Really a cradle catholic only cares about doing unto others, what would Jesus do, feed the poor, be kind. We’re not all about the source whatever the hell that is.

I agree Catholicism (not cradle Catholics) loves the rules and all the other crazy stuff. We aren’t the Council of bishops. We are Cradle Catholics we know all the rules, but don’t get all tied up in them because we know all the loopholes, and we all know all the contradictions.

Also, besides love being the greatest of them all we understand primacy of conscience.

I mean, seriously if you started talking to cradle Catholics about the source and the soul and blah blah blah yeah you would lose them immediately.

Now, if you come to them and say hey, we’re gonna be feeding the poor, clothing the homeless or building a house for someone they’d be all in.[/quote]

I used the Source as a non-Christian term that might help a non-Christian understand what I am talking about.  People use terms like that in new age spirituality, it's not really a Protestant term.  However, it is accurate.  (Not everything about new age spirituality is wrong, btw, just like not everything about Islam is wrong either.)

I do agree with you on the substance of your message.  Many Catholics have very thin faith that's comprised of works and understanding history and not based on a deep spiritual connection with God.  Because Protestants don't emphasize works or history, they do a better job of making sure people in their congregation actually have a deep spiritual life.  In that way, they are superior to Catholics.

I am happy being Catholic.  Protestant theology is all mangled because it's disconnected from history, and they constantly splinter into sects that disagree and then end up generations later with people that don't even understand what the disagreement is about.  But on a personal level I find individual Protestants to usually be stronger in their faith than individual Catholics.  And that's a shame.  [/quote]

lol, what?

You continue feeling complete in your spiritual connections and all. God bless!

I’m gonna go do a good act for someone else and then not tell anybody about it in honor of my “thin faith”, ✝️😂 then I’m gonna say Seven Hail Marys in four our father’s feeling guilty that I didn’t help more people.

You know this whole thing isn’t about which is better. [/quote]

Serving at a soup kitchen and saying penance is great, but "it is by grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works."

The Catholic Church signed the ecumenical declaration that affirmed that teaching.

Faith in Christ is the source and summit of the Christian faith.  My point is that some Catholics (I don't know about you, just some Catholics) are so focused on the soup kitchen and the Hail Marys that they forget about the single most important thing.  We could learn from our Protestant brothers and sisters in that regard.  [/quote]

Nope. That’s an other denominationChristian teaching Catholic’s teach you only get into heaven by being good.

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