CM,
I have to say, that you would drive away ANYONE considering the Catholic Faith to be the true religion, because "Catholic" is the name you, unfortunately, apply to your faith.
But the fact is that I WANT NO PART OF YOUR RELIGION, whatever it is. Your faith involves staying home on Sunday, 3 sacraments, no union with Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, private determination of what is dogma, and consequent bitter denunciation of others who dispute those "dogmas", and whatever is left of your Catholic Faith is dried up and eviscerated of Charity. Can one even say that the Catholic Faith is possible without Charity? No, not really. So I suppose I'm saying you're not acting like a Catholic.
I am forced to conclude that based on your actions. You might have the baptismal character (as you say about me and everyone else here), but you aren't practicing the Catholic Faith. Your faith needs a new name -- Davidism, Davidite, or something like that.
Objectively speaking, there are hundreds of Catholics present on CathInfo and you seem to be quite keen on distancing yourself from them. There must be a good reason for that. You must not be Catholic yourself.
When I saw you distancing yourself from others' prayers in a recent prayer request, it spoke volumes to me.
http://www.cathinfo.com/index.php/Please-pray-for-this-little-girl (Independently of others in this thread)
What Catholic saint would say something like that? Everyone else was offering condolences, prayers, etc. and you feel the need to mention that you're not praying with us because we are heretics. That was cold and calculated.
Violating charity (e.g., calling a name during an argument) because the passion of anger has been stoked is understandable, humanly speaking. But you seem to do it absolutely on purpose, as a matter of principle and because of the dictates of your "faith".
Perhaps in some twisted way you feel that you're dedicated to the truth, and that the truth requires behavior like that. Let me tell you something: The Pharisees did EVERYTHING RIGHT materially speaking. They tithed all products, did all the fasts, the sabbath rest, etc. BUT OUR LORD WAS NOT PLEASED WITH THEM -- AT ALL. They couldn't see the forest for the trees. They forgot love, mercy, etc. (Not my charges, those are from Our Lord whom you claim to follow)
What does that old saying mean? They couldn't see the forest because they were focusing too much on the trees. They strained out a gnat and swallowed a camel. In your case, you're focused on heresy so much you forgot what it means to be Catholic.
A word to the... A word for you: Nobody would EVER "convert" to the faith you profess, especially with antics like I quoted above. Pharisaism just isn't that attractive.
You aren't as bitter/despondent/rude as you probably will become, if you adhere to your current "faith". In 20 years, you'll be more bitter than FKP, if you still have any residual faith at all.
You need to seriously enter into yourself, and double-check just to make sure that you're not just deluding yourself -- double-check and make sure you're not puffed up with pride. You don't want to make a mistake on this one, for your soul's sake.
The Catholic Faith cannot be reduced to a dozen people worldwide. You like to quote Our Lord's prophecy, but you miss the first part
But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?
Look around -- I don't see any Second Coming. If it's not the end of the world, there can't be an apostasy THAT severe. The world can't end too soon, because we haven't even had the reign of Antichrist yet, who the Catholic Faith teaches will be a single man. And how long has the apostasy been THAT severe, according to your views? decades?
I recommend you take a couple of months (at least) reading Lives of the Saints, while completely refraining from works of doctrine.
I learned at the Seminary that "doctrine without piety = good heresiarch", while "piety without doctrine = sentimental and liable to fall into error" You need both piety AND doctrine.
You're merely falling into the opposite extreme, a knee-jerk reaction to the "everybody's nice" religion of Vatican II.
Matthew