Re: Great love for jesus led me to Islam
I will assert again, Roman Catholics have a more standardized and centralized religion meaning that the incidences in that story would NEVER have happened in Catholicism. You still have not disproved that.
Churches have a format they must follow laid out by the Vatican. There is no deviation from certain things. A child doesn't recieve communion until he understand what Christ died for and why. That is standard, meaning in America it is taught the same as in Romania, the same as in Russia, the same as in Australia, the same as in Ireland.......... The worldwide churches of the Catholic faith condemn witchcraft as a sin. It has been a sin since the beginning. This is standard, taught everywhere.
I am talking about teachings, not about how people feel about their religion.
*One other thing, all Catholics are Christians, but not all Christians are Catholics. Protestants are definitely not Catholics. All have different philosophies. The Roman Catholic Church is the only standardized christian church in existence (standardized, meaning the same thing is taught in individual churches worldwide as mandated by the Vatican).
All these side issues are interesting and intriquing, however...................
Code_Red - I have given examples and I have also explained how this claim is utterly ridiculous, but for some reason this total line of BS is allowed to stay.
As I explained earlier, I would not be upset about a conversion to Islam or about a man's journey to a faith, any faith. A man's journey to forming a relationship with God is always a beautiful thing in any religion. My problem is that this particular story gives a false impression of the Catholic religion and it's practices and tolerances. The story is patently untrue in this regard (my sympathies to the man who posted this). Wouldn't you feel the same if someone likened Islam to a pagan worshiping culture (which is exactly what happened here)?
And yet, it is still here as a truth.