I am 20 years old, Catholic, and how is life? Great thanks, I dont know what you would like to me discuss, but life is positive, and always changing and usually for the good, I own my own company, i party alot, i read even more and i play chess more then all of the above put together. I live on my own, and i am outta university for the year to work on my company. Thats life, and how does being catholic influence it??? It does on only a faith level, im happy because i get to wake up, and im happy because today ill be able to accomplish more with my life, ill be able to learn, study, and play chess. I thank god for that, and thats how my catholic life goes!
Hope that helps,
Regards,
Dustin Rogers
Originally posted by Paul DiracThe Protestant 'knock' on Catholics? You mean this is supposed to be a bad thing?
Interesting question, and I will enjoy the answers you get. The Protestant knock on Catholics when I was a kid was that even their clerics smoke, drank, and told dirty jokes. 😕
Catholicism has two levels...faithful and fanatical. Fanatical in a sense of strictness, not suicide bombing stuff...
Faithful - People who believe in God, but do not tie him to everyday life. May or may not go to church.
Fanatical - People who go to church with a zeal. Mormon like capacity in telling everyone about God.
Originally posted by Paul DiracDid you live in one of those places where 'Christian' means 'Protestant', eg "I was raised a devout Roman Catholic, but I converted to Christianity when I was 18."?
Interesting question, and I will enjoy the answers you get. The Protestant knock on Catholics when I was a kid was that even their clerics smoke, drank, and told dirty jokes. 😕
Originally posted by Brother EdwinOkaaay... Let me just tell you something. The bible says a lot of things about other religions. Usually, bad stuff. But in todays world you shouldn't descriminate against others because of their faiths. Most of my friends have a religion other than mine. If they're you're friends, why would you hate them?
Would I have to hate my pagan friends?
Originally posted by Brother EdwinWhat inductions would I have to do?
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From a non-christian starting-point: first a declaration, then baptism then confirmation. These three can often occur fairly similtaneously for an adult. If already christian of another cloth, then just a declaration. And even that's optional: just turn up and that will do.
How often would I have to atend church?
It was once considered a sin not to attend mass on a Sunday, but that went the way of many of the medievel rules quite some time ago.
Would I have to go to Sunday school?
If you want to and if you can find one.
Would I have to hate my pagan friends?
Hate nobody. There are many christians who hate this, that and the other: it calls their acclaimed christianity into serious doubt.
Originally posted by AcolyteI sure did. I can only think of four Catholic families within a two-minute walk of our house. The Protestant Church I was in as a kid would say that to be a true Christian you have to be "born again," and there was sort of an unspoken suspicion that Catholics by and large were not into righteous living and were therefore part of the mass of humanity that the Bible said will be spewed out of God's mouth (?) for being "lukewarm" in their practice of Christianity.
Did you live in one of those places where 'Christian' means 'Protestant', eg "I was raised a devout Roman Catholic, but I converted to Christianity when I was 18."?