Based on WHAT? Based on what I believe isn't in alignment with what you believe? That's the great thing about America - you are free to believe what you want, I am free to believe what I want, and in the end it is STILL Okay to agree not to disagree. have a nice day...and God bless.
Free to believe what you want? You wouldn't get that impression from reading this thread. If I were to take a position equivalent to what the anti Catholics on this thread have expressed it would sound something like this: All you heretics are living outside God's grace. You are inevitably doomed to burn in Hell for eternity to pay for your sins of willful ignorance. Praying for your soul would be the Christ like thing to do, but even with the love of Our Lord I just can't seem to get inspired enough to do that for you. Perhaps your sins are too great.
'Anti-Catholic'? Why can't people just disagree with / not believe what Catholics believe without being 'anti-Catholic'? I do not fully believe what the Catholics do, but I am not 'anti-Catholic'. They are free to believe whatever they want. I will stand up and defend that right but do not have to agree with them to do so. You're right - we are not supposed to be judgmental, arrogantly or not. That is God's job. I have no malice in my heart for Catholics or any other fait. I hope and trust they will introduce many people to God, which is awesome.
If you pray for my soul, I greatly appreciate it, and if you don't so be it. But it is not, I believe, within yours or any person on this earth's authority to 'forgive' me of my sin. That is all I was saying in my initial post. That is up to God, and luckily for me he is a loving, forgiving God.