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I believe the main reason Christianity and America are in serious trouble has less to do with non-believers, secular liberals and virulent enemies of Christ than it does with those who claim to be Christian. The lukewarm, if you will? First of all, the majority who say they are Christian do not even attend mass or church services hardly ever. I highly doubt their prayer life is pleasing to God, either. They are fooling themselves, and I would rather cast myself with some poor Hindu woman who never left her village or heard the name Jesus than that lot who do nothing except check “christian” on some survey or questionnaire.
Then there are all those practicing Catholics and Protestants who regularly go to church, and pray, and consider themselves in “good standing” with Our Lord. A large percentage of us, again, are not pleasing. Why? Because we know too much and do so little. Still self-centered, materialistic, still critical and judgmental of others, still gossip, still lust around, still very uncharitable in so many ways. “Danger, Danger!” Like the Lord says, “because thou art lukewarm I will vomit thee out of my mouth.” It is time the protestants learn how real and awful purgatory is. The Virgin Mary told a visionary from Ecuador “what angers Our Lord the most is man’s shameless immorality and foul ingratitude.”