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Debate: Are Catholics Christians? (view source)
Revision as of 00:40, February 5, 2020
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As someone with a half dozen first cousins, all catholic, and two uncles, both devoutly catholic, and a devoutly catholic grandmother and grandfather who has attended several catholic funeral rites, marriages, and dozens of Catholic masses (I have never taken communion, just sit and respectfully watch), I think the honest answer--the horrifying truth--is being a Catholic does not in fact guarantee that one is a Christian. The majority of Catholics, I truly believe, are Christians, but ultimately a Christian relationship (a covenant) with God can only be known to the individual. --[[User:RickD|RickD]] 11:16, 3 December 2008 (EST)
As someone with a half dozen first cousins, all catholic, and two uncles, both devoutly catholic, and a devoutly catholic grandmother and grandfather who has attended several catholic funeral rites, marriages, and dozens of Catholic masses (I have never taken communion, just sit and respectfully watch), I think the honest answer--the horrifying truth--is being a Catholic does not in fact guarantee that one is a Christian. The majority of Catholics, I truly believe, are Christians, but ultimately a Christian relationship (a covenant) with God can only be known to the individual. --[[User:RickD|RickD]] 11:16, 3 December 2008 (EST)
Well, my response might be a bit biased since I myself am in fact a devout Catholic, but even if I were strictly a Protestant or not Catholic, I would have this much to say: The Catholic Church dated back to the times of the Roman Empire, and lasted as the single Catholic church until the Great Schism between the Catholic and Orthodox sects. The Protestant religions only came to be in the 1600s at most. If the Catholic Church isn't Christian, what does that make the Protestant religions and even the Orthodox Religions, which obviously couldn't have predated Catholicism? Logically, it has to be Christian in order for that to work, has to be Christian for Christianity as a whole to even exist in reality, and I'd make that argument even if I WEREN'T Catholic and, heck, I'd even make that argument if I had a genocidal hatred of the Catholic Church in fact. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 19:40, 4 February 2020 (EST)
== NO ==
== NO ==