Eretria90
Yes I am One Awesome Eagle
I'm glad you put, "it seems" because that implies it's your perception that I felt that way; you're quite wrong. That was not my intent at all.
My intent was really to try to convince me why I should stay Catholic? 35 years of my life I was Catholic and part of me wants to be able to stay but my intellect and faith are moving toward the East for sure.
I had a good long-time friend of mine say some things to me that were not so kind, implying a lot about me in the open forum, and I had to defend myself. I still have those "concerns about Catholicism" as you put it.
My question remains: why stay Catholic and not Orthodox? If you want to chime in, I'm all ears. But I won't lie that I'm still more convinced by the East.
That is certainly what this thread has degraded into: an East vs. West issue. Also, it appears you have an agenda against the Novus Ordo. While I am sorry that you feel liturgical abuse has occurred, trashing the NO mass certainly isn't going to help you any more. I am quite tired of having seen such NO hatred on OBOB throughout its history: it's no wonder I do not post here. Whether it's from fellow Catholics or people who come in claiming they know everything about the Catholic Church, I have seen too much of it whether it's on OBOB, CAF, or Fisheaters.
Please do not take my post as an attack against you; rather, I am thinking outloud because this is a repeated process I keep seeing no matter where I go on the internet. I answered your question I believe in pg. 4 of the thread. I can't really give you a good answer because I reconverted "out of the blue" so to speak. God told me to start going back to Church, with the help of a Catholic saint. There was no "thinking" involved as to whether which Church is "correct" or not. There was an "I will obey God no matter what He tells me." That's a good enough reason for me to believe why I should be Catholic and not Orthodox.
If God calls you to be Orthodox, so be it. But don't become Orthodox just because you're fed up with the NO mass. Why become a stringent anti-Catholic and a westophobic when these are the exact same people you may have been trying to get away from? If you think the Orthodox Church doesn't have its own problems, you're living in fantasyland. Problems exist in every church, every denomination. The Baptist church that my grandparents went to had a pastor that stole all the money the congregants had donated and ran off with it without a trace. Am I going to assume all Baptists are this way? That same mindset you seem to be applying because you had some bad experiences at certain parishes.
I have no problem with Orthodox Christianity itself; I love Orthodox Churches, Saints, Icons, etc. but I do not like the certain attitudes that I see recurring among internet Orthodox Christians. What I have seen is "westophobia" and a "high and mighty" attitude that just can't cut it in Christianity. And yes, I get the same vibe from Traditionalist Catholics and Evangelical Protestants as well.
I'm sorry folks, but it's time to move on from this 1,000 year grudge. I'm quite tired of hearing the East blaming the West and vice-versa. Get over it, please. We can point fingers all we want, but the truth is, we were both One, True, Holy Apostolic Church at one point in our history and it's both our faults such a split occurred. We should stop blaming people for something that occurred hundreds of years ago in which people of today had absolutely no control over. That includes our leaders and our Popes. Atheists see this as a good way to constantly attack Christianity and do we really want to sink down to the low level of ignorant atheists I have debated on internet forums? I think not.
So, my post will end with this thought for you: It is not about us forcing the Church to adapt to our own wants and needs, it's about us adapting to the needs of the Church. This isn't "pick and choose" like Protestantism, where we create our own "liturgy," beliefs, our own Bible, etc. You want the liturgy to adapt to you. It's not going to happen.
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