If there are confused souls out there who do not believe in Our Lord, other beliefs notwithstanding,
Then I pity them because they are lost souls.
There's another way of looking at that.
On the question of how many Americans are aware that
God's revelation includes that Jesus is the Son of God:
Based on your proposition, Capt McQuigg, with which BTW I wholeheartedly agree, at the Last Judgment Jesus Christ will separate the sheep from the goats, according to Sacred Scripture (it is consequently a dogma of the Faith), and therefore, it would not be unfair in such a survey to
divide the population into 2 (two) groups ('categories'): those who
are aware and those who are
not aware of this teaching (God's revelation... of God).
Note well, this is not an act of "judgmentalism" because it does not separate the participants in the same way that Our Lord will do so when He ultimately JUDGES them, so we are not "playing God." All it does is arrange the data based on the answers provided by the participants, when they are asked if they
are aware, or if they
are not aware of the '
teaching'.
Then assess all participants based on the following criteria (all of which would have to be follow-up questions on the poll):
~ How many in each group think that being aware of this is the
same thing as believing it?
~ How many in each group think that being aware of this is
unrelated to believing it?
~ How many in each group think the poll ought to be considered an act of
terrorism?
~ How many in each group think that the poll is an attack on their personal
freedom?
~ How many in each group plan to contact their local bishop to
complain about the poll?
~ How many in each group would seek starting a
lawsuit with the SPLC over this?
~ How many in each group would think that this doctrine is
just "an opinion?"
~ How many in each group would say that this is
not a doctrine at all?
~ How many in each group would bemoan the
absence of a third category?
~ How many in each group feel a strange urge to cut off someone's head when they read the principal question?
~ How many have any feelings of aggression after reading the follow-up questions?
~ How many in each group are baptized Catholics in good standing?
~ How many in each group are Catholic priests, bishops or cardinals?
~ How many in each group are soon to be Confirmed or have been Confirmed?
I would especially like to know how the data compares between Confirmandi in the NovusOrdo parishes and in the Canonized Latin Mass parishes.
There are no doubt a lot more follow-up questions that could be asked. In my own experience, I have encountered people in each of these areas, so I know there would be a variety of answers. It seems to me that just 100 years ago there may not have been such 'diversity' but now that the liberals fairly worship 'diversity' like it's some kind of object of meet adoration has had the effect of further 'scattering the flock' even if the 'Shepherd is struck' anyway.
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