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JustaServant
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| First Name: | James | | Gender: | Male | | Faith History: | Catholic |
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Posted: Fri Feb 29th, 2008 07:31 pm |
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Phobia is an excessive and irrational fear that is usually based on some trauma in the past. Because of that trauma, anytime the person meets anything or anybody that is remotely associated with that trauma, there is an immediate knee-jerk response. The thing or person is out of proportion to the reality that it is. They are terrified of it and flee from it just at the mention of the name.
Many Protestants have ’Rome phobia’. Anything that remotely smells of Catholic, no matter how minute, they go berserk. The reactions of people who, at first talk of Christ and being a Christian, suddenly transform into something ugly and horrible. Love becomes hate, peace becomes war, families are torn apart in revolt (renamed ‘Reformation’), joy becomes misery, mercy is replace by venom.
ANY enemy of Catholics becomes their friend. A root of bitterness is born that becomes a stench in the nostrils of God.
Watching people react to anything Catholic, the word Christian is the last word you would use to describe it.
Many times it is passed down from generation to generation. They have no clue as to WHY they hate Catholics….they just do. Their identity is found in what they are against, not what they are for.
The history of the Catholic Church is re-written to show what a monster she is. Even her future is determined by ‘Bible prophecy’ which destines the monster to Hell. So there is no way out for the Catholic Church. Born a monster, die a monster. We teach our children to fear this ugly monster who will devour us on a whim. When asked about her they say, ‘she’s a horrible monster disfigured at birth and is destined for Hell and damnation.
When anyone DARES to face that phobia, remove the mask that has been put over her, he discovers that the Catholic Church is not the evil institution responsible for every evil imaginable. But she is instead the most beautiful Lady Christ purchased, fear is replaced by love. She captures the heart and you fall in love with her.
Perfect love casts out fear.
http://thetrailhome.blogspot.com/
Last edited on Fri Feb 29th, 2008 07:32 pm by JustaServant
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Credo Catholic
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Posted: Sat Mar 1st, 2008 02:21 am |
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| I agree with you James. The response a lot of people have to the word "catholic" is an emotional knee-jerk against a fictional religion. What they have pictured in their minds does not resemble the true Catholic church, but they are too busy slinging arrows to see that.
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tedjenczewski
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Posted: Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 02:53 am |
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| I read your "blogspot", for the second time I believe, and am encouraged by your testimony. In my experience Protestants do not know what the Catholic Church actually teaches, and believe what they have been taught about the Catholic Church by other Protestants. They generally do not recognize the huge theology differences among themselves. The only thing that unites them appears to be a mutual hatred for anything Catholic. I try to get Protestant friends to read the early fathers, particularly Clement, Ignatous, Justin and Ireneous. If they do, their view of Catholicism is never quite the same again.
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Steven Barrett
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Posted: Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 05:42 am |
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Don't worry about the phobias of life-long Protestants. It's the fish-stories of fallen Catholics that'll get you every time. But learn to be patient with them too. Some of them have had horrible experiences. On the other hands, some fallen Catholics simply missed hearing the Gospel. But don't let them tell you they didn't get to hear it. Attend any Mass: you attend a whole long version of the Gospel, and not just the assigned Sunday's reading out of the lectionary. Now, if some people have phobias with that, well, isn't that their problem, and not yours?
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january tuesday
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Posted: Fri Apr 4th, 2008 10:34 pm |
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"It’s never an easy thing admitting one has believed a lie. The anger comes not so much from the lie, but that one has been gullible enough to buy into it. I suppose it is anger directed more toward oneself. But being lied to creates a vigilance that determines that I will not be fooled a second time. Many times the people passing on the lie do not know or mean to do so, they are just too lazy to check out the truth of it. So, I suppose some of it is anger at one’s self for lazy research."
I really resonate with this. I couldn't was shocked at how many lies I had believed about Catholicism growing up.
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