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I've caught up on like... the last forty pages or so of this thread because of HEY GAL mentioning this thread in the Milhist one, so I figured it had to be good. And lo and behold, it was! Very interesting stuff, even though I'm personally not Christian. Speaking of, I actually live in one of the Catholic areas of the US (Louisiana) and occasionally discuss church stuff with my family, good ole Cajuns. But I was raised Protestant, went to a Fundamentalist Protestant school, that sorta thing. It turns out that my parents were born Papists but later just went to Evangelical Protestantism. When I asked why, apparently they had a laundry list of complaints, like "worshiping Mary" and such. That didn't even seem right at the time, when I knew relatively little about Catholicism/non-Protestant Christianity, of course. Since that conversation like half a year ago, I've learned a lotta stuff about Catholicism and Orthodoxy that's just sorta cemented the thought that I would probably convert to Catholicism if I was still inclined to Christianity. But y'all seem to talk to that sorta Protestant a lot, so next time that that topic comes up, do y'all have anything that I should read/anything I should say to learn more/dis-spell that line of thought?
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HEY GAL posted:more casualties of bad catholic education as children, i bet they were easy pickings for evangelization by protestants I think this is how it went, yeah. If they're anything like me, which I imagine they are, they just likely accepted what they heard at Mass without really questioning further. Then when they heard some Evangelical saying things about sola scriptora or Mary-worship or what have you, they realized they didn't understand what they were hearing and went "Yeah, this is dumb." I mean, that's kinda how I ended up leaving the church, and I only started to try and understand things later on when I got a notion of critical thinking from talking/debates with religious friends later on in life. Man, with this thread especially, I read more Scripture and stuff about church history than I did when I was involved with it! Going to an Evangelical Protestant school was odd. Thank y'all again for the fascinating read, though.
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