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I won't give you any standard reasons, I will give you MY personal reasons.
1) Catholicism is the biggest religion, with one billion people all over the world. Wherever you go, there will be a church and community to welcome you.
2) Catholicism is the most normal religion. You don't have to wear a funny hat or special underwear. You don't have to take unusual days off. You don't have to go door to door and give people pamphlets. You don't have to believe the world is about to end.
3) Our holidays are the regular holidays you celebrate anyways, Christmas, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, St. Valentine's Day, even Halloween comes from us, because it's the night before All Saint's Day.
4) The only inconvenience is that you can't eat meat on Fridays during Lent. But all the restaurants have their fish specials during Lent to accommodate us.
5) If you raise your kids Catholic, they may stray from it, but it's unlikely they will join some crazy cult to fill that empty hole in their hearts. Catholicism fills that hole very nicely. And some day, your kids will probably go back to being Catholic, because they will want to raise their kids Catholic.
6) Catholics have the best schools. and many top universities are Catholic. Catholics don't pay as much to get in.
7) Going to Confession is the bomb. It really makes you feel good to get it all off your chest, and see that bored look on the priest's face when you realize he's not at all impressed by your sins.
8) Eucharist is also the bomb. If you really believed in it, really believed, you would want it every day.
9) We're not really all that strict on many things the Protestants are strict about. We're allowed to drink alcohol, smoke, dance, go to parties, play Dungeons & Dragons, listen to rock music, dress up for Halloween, etc.
10) Catholics don't have any strange rules that you're not allowed to get health care, go to the doctor, or get blood transfusions. In fact, there are thousands or maybe tens of thousands Catholic hospitals all over the world.
11) If you want to get involved, that's an option. But if you want to just show up on Sunday, throw a few bucks in the basket, and leave, you can do that too. There's no peer pressure to do more than you want to do.
12) If you're gay, no one really cares. Just don't show up with your same-sex marriage certificate and wave it in the priest's face, because then you're in the same league as the Catholic who got divorced and remarried.
13) If you've had an abortion, go to confession and begin your healing process. The Church has a wonderful program called Rachel's Vineyard.
14) All that stuff about the priests and altar boys is horrible, but I think it's been dealt with. I am not seeing more stories pop up, while before, it was popping up all the time. Safeguards are now in place.
That's all for now. We will probably see guno's contribution here, but he is a complete moron and should be ignored. If I was a Jew, I would be ashamed to have guno as a fellow Jew.
1) Catholicism is the biggest religion, with one billion people all over the world. Wherever you go, there will be a church and community to welcome you.
2) Catholicism is the most normal religion. You don't have to wear a funny hat or special underwear. You don't have to take unusual days off. You don't have to go door to door and give people pamphlets. You don't have to believe the world is about to end.
3) Our holidays are the regular holidays you celebrate anyways, Christmas, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, St. Valentine's Day, even Halloween comes from us, because it's the night before All Saint's Day.
4) The only inconvenience is that you can't eat meat on Fridays during Lent. But all the restaurants have their fish specials during Lent to accommodate us.
5) If you raise your kids Catholic, they may stray from it, but it's unlikely they will join some crazy cult to fill that empty hole in their hearts. Catholicism fills that hole very nicely. And some day, your kids will probably go back to being Catholic, because they will want to raise their kids Catholic.
6) Catholics have the best schools. and many top universities are Catholic. Catholics don't pay as much to get in.
7) Going to Confession is the bomb. It really makes you feel good to get it all off your chest, and see that bored look on the priest's face when you realize he's not at all impressed by your sins.
8) Eucharist is also the bomb. If you really believed in it, really believed, you would want it every day.
9) We're not really all that strict on many things the Protestants are strict about. We're allowed to drink alcohol, smoke, dance, go to parties, play Dungeons & Dragons, listen to rock music, dress up for Halloween, etc.
10) Catholics don't have any strange rules that you're not allowed to get health care, go to the doctor, or get blood transfusions. In fact, there are thousands or maybe tens of thousands Catholic hospitals all over the world.
11) If you want to get involved, that's an option. But if you want to just show up on Sunday, throw a few bucks in the basket, and leave, you can do that too. There's no peer pressure to do more than you want to do.
12) If you're gay, no one really cares. Just don't show up with your same-sex marriage certificate and wave it in the priest's face, because then you're in the same league as the Catholic who got divorced and remarried.
13) If you've had an abortion, go to confession and begin your healing process. The Church has a wonderful program called Rachel's Vineyard.
14) All that stuff about the priests and altar boys is horrible, but I think it's been dealt with. I am not seeing more stories pop up, while before, it was popping up all the time. Safeguards are now in place.
That's all for now. We will probably see guno's contribution here, but he is a complete moron and should be ignored. If I was a Jew, I would be ashamed to have guno as a fellow Jew.
