Would you rather be Catholic or Protestant?

[Anonymous]

Catholic!

Protestant!

[patois]

I'm not big of ritual and religiosity to begin with even if it is basically imprinted on me as a inherent duty I guess you could say, but the ancient churches are closet to the truth and origin of the religion. So if you want truth, you'd go to the Roman Catholic, Orthodox Catholic Church (i. e. Eastern Orthodox Church), or Assyrian Church of the East. In Christianity, it's said that Jesus meets you where you're at. The more devote you get and the more you come to understand, the more you will seek the truth. So in time, if you were a Protestant, you will likely become a Catholic if you study scripture.

[patois]

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[patois]

If you are thinking, what the heck am I talking about, well as it's written in the Amplified Bible...

Hebrews 8:10
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
After those days, says the Lord:
I will imprint My laws upon their minds [even upon their innermost thoughts and understanding],
And engrave them upon their hearts [effecting their regeneration].
And I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.

I'm not church goer. I wasn't brought up in a religious home. For the most part I ignore religion... But according to the religion, I really don't have a choice. If I'm called I'm called and basically that's how it works.

[strateguy632]

if you study scripture? the Reformation studied n left catholic.
something like jesus never said popes appoint cardinals who appoint popes.
leaders episcop must have one wife. so a preust can't be a preist.

[strateguy632]

your quote didn't say " called "
to follow pope.
n that verse is in jeremiah.

[patois]

@strateguy632 I'm not trying to convince anyone with Bible quotes, I'm trying to explain my own comments about myself concerning imprinted duty... Without context, what I said doesn't make much sense... I'm of the House of Israel. That said, I don't make questions about religion and I'm not out their proselytizing any particular brand, but I do answer honestly the best I know how when I see people twisting religion so that people are not mislead. That out of the way, like I said if you study scripture, you will eventually begin asking questions about church history. It's a natural logic progression to investigate the source of your religion. When you read church fathers and what early disciples were saying about the worship of Christ (not of men in the church as you want to focus on) you will find some strong conflicts with Protestant beliefs that will likely bother you. Like I said, you will find truths in the ancient church if you are seeking them. I'm not going to try to argue over it. If you want someone to lay it out for you, go to apologist that will teach you.

[NamerOfStars]

I like being able to drink, dance, gamble, swear, and paint pictures of Jesus if I feel like it, which excludes most branches of Protestantism (and most of Orthodoxy, for that matter).

More pressingly, I like having my genitals intact and unmutilated, and since I'm not a girl, that sadly excludes EVERYTHING that isn't Catholicism, Christian or otherwise.

[Berethor]

Protestant, current pope is too nice to gays, it's heresy, the bible is clearly oppose to gays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis_and_LGBT_topics

[BCRanger10]

What if the next pope were to repudiate Francis on these matters? Or some other pope down the line?

I would also recommend you read an article I wrote on this a while ago. Did you see this one?

A Catholic's Response to the Recent Decree on the Blessing of Same-Sex Relationships ↗

[Berethor]

I am not dealing with what if, the fact that a pope can do such thing is very bad.

[strateguy632]

they say the first pope was peter, who had a mother in law so... claiming to follow a celibate pope is not really Christian.

[exitseven]

I really do not claim a religion. I was not raised in a religious home. I consider myself a Christian but that is as far as it goes

[Dargil]

I have feet in both disciplines. There re good and bad in both.

[strateguy632]

but if you only do bible isn't that pure?

[Dargil]

@strateguy632 meaning exactly what?

[DarkLegacy]

I come from both but as i am British and English born, and i support the monarchy as should anyone in the UK, i will say Protestant.

[Alex-Snow]

A religion does not define who I am or what I believe in so neither really

[BCRanger10]

I am very happy as a Catholic.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Neither, I’m done with the church as a whole

[Staximus]

I'd rather not be in either of those cults

[loveslongnails]

C) None of the above

[jahaims]

I'd rather be dead than in a cult

[strateguy632]

that is irrelevant here because neither is "under authoritarian ruler". here is a screenshot of dictionary. and
this website forbade irrelevant.

[BarryLiverstone]

I am pro-God