My mom prays for my soul and thinks I am leading my kids to hell. She is still waiting for the rapture but for my sake she hopes it is delayed so i can come to the true belief.
I don't mean to pry, but can I ask you why? What is it that Catholics do or aren't doing that gets her to think our souls are damned? lol
IMO, I think a lot of Protestants believe Catholics live by the "I can sin anytime I want and will be forgiven once I go to confession" like it's a get out of jail free card.
Works based salvation and Mary along with all the Saints and idols yada yada yada. But if you answer all those, then they have a whole a whole host of inconsequential differences.
Works based salvation and Mary along with all the Saints and idols yada yada yada. But if you answer all those, then they have a whole host of inconsequential differences.
Atheist or agnostic?
Atheist
Well crap, there goes my plan.
This. I prefer to practice my faith differently, otherwise I’d be catholic, but the amount of fellow prots I’ve encountered that view Catholics as anything other than brothers and sisters in Christ first and foremost is incredibly small,…
Lazy argument IMO (From them, not you).
My sophomore year, the fastest kid on the football team was a transfer who had been expelled from Perry. Chuck was the vice principal at the time.
What has Niele said about Catholicism?
Glad I'm not alone on here! Though I usually say that I'm both, or that my response depends upon the question (i.e., agnosticism is an epistemological position, whereas atheism is a theological position).
As I've shared on this board before (religion thread), religion, beliefs, God, afterlife, etc are very hard things for me to process.
Nothing negative. She's been pretty open in the past about going to ND and coaching there because of her faith. She has spoken at Catholic organization events in the past as well, which is generally not something that non-Catholics are granted. She prays at the grotto with some regularity. She is godmother to one of Kevin McGuff's children.
Kinda wild how both of them went to Catholic high schools, Catholic colleges and then spent most of their professional lives working at Catholic universities. They must really hate Catholicism.
I think I would consider myself agnostic, so I know very little on the topic... but isn't it reversed in that the protestant thought is that your sins can be washed away just by simply saying you believe in Christ. Where Catholics at least make you "works" for it? Sorry for the pun, delete if insensitive.
Different Protestant sects have different views on what "sola fide" actually means. But anyone who thinks you can use confession as a get out of jail free card doesn't understand the requirements of the sacrament, which I believe was #1's point.
I am also an active Catholic and it does bother me, precisely because I believe the truth of Christianity matters and I because believe it’s wrong to call Christ’s church false.
Did you not notice the 134-foot Jesus on ND's campus? What has you thinking Catholics aren't Christian?
