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Vinikias, apparently, you have met only obnoxious, vehemently anti-Catholic Protestants, or you, yourself, have approached them in a similar manner, forcing them to fight back. Do ALL non-Catholics act similarly, in your experience? If so, the problem is your lack of charity. If not, may I suggest you steer clear of Protestants because it sounds as if your attitude drives them further into heresy and hatred of the True Faith. Your words are not becoming a Catholic.
Yes, I have a few Protestant relatives, who are better described as functional agnostics. I work with Protestants, and was one myself, so I do believe I'm qualified to correct you. At present, three of my work colleagues are seriously investigating several truths of Catholicism that are generally rejected by Protestants. (Devotion to BVM, the Saints, the Catholic Church as source of the Bible) It IS ignorance, not so much invincible, as never considered because no Catholic cared enough to say anything. Please check out Fr. Joseph Pfeiffer's sermon given on August 25 in Danbury, Connecticut. It is still on YouTube or available on CathInfo as mp3.
Why do people here ASSUME i talk badly to non-Catholics? Or provoke them? Or that i am mean and uncharitable in person? Do you know me? Do you know this? How could you?
That's rash judgment right there, a SIN.
And, YES, 99% of all non-Catholics i have met, even novus ordos, are bad willed.
They all seem "nice" and your typical "good person", but start asking them about religion, even POLITELY, and shazam, they show their true colors.
They just cannot believe they are actually NOT good persons, or that they are wrong, or that they are actually on the road to Hell.
Sugar-coating and telling them half-truths are not the way to go, so Saints and Catholics of repute say.
How are you going to sugar-coat the fact that they are on the road to Hell? How will you tell that "nicely" to them? Are you placing human respect above the truth?
So far, only 3 non-Catholics have been "receptive", in that they "heard me out" and didn't reject the truth from the start, but still, they are still non-Catholics and don't really seem to think things are for real and that they are outside the Church.
They think it's a game.
I have given up hope telling them anything else because like i said, they don't seem to care and keep committing the same sins, so now it's up to prayer and for God to deliver them, if it is His will.