^ MAGE
You are missing the point, I've mentioned this in other threads. In a worldly sense, you are correct, but Christianity's focus is not on this world, so the choice is a false one. Also, it is refreshing that you are honest, if you don't do Christian things or even strive to do them --- but you shouldn't mix all these concepts up.
The problem with Roman Catholicism is that it has always been about "The Institution", the top-down creation of political type states, subconsciously if not overtly held by the Pope of Rome (he is currently a head of state). So it should be criticized for this type of innovative, anti-christian ecclesiology. Its followers love its simplicity and appeal to authority, but they soon will realize that it has been so thoroughly corrupted and changed that it can't possibly be, and never was, the true faith. Just look at how many social justice types it has produced just in America in the last 50 years. Now it has a "social justice" pope, a real former marxist/leninist from his youth.
Sadly, my feeling is that the intentionally uneducated "catholics" of the future will just lose their "faith" entirely as opposed to seeking out what true christianity is. Ironically, they were always close to it, they just failed to see how corrupt and political they became especially when they broke away in the early 2nd millenium. And now most all of them will be lost, precisely because they have had such a political connection to "this world" for so long ...
You are missing the point, I've mentioned this in other threads. In a worldly sense, you are correct, but Christianity's focus is not on this world, so the choice is a false one. Also, it is refreshing that you are honest, if you don't do Christian things or even strive to do them --- but you shouldn't mix all these concepts up.
The problem with Roman Catholicism is that it has always been about "The Institution", the top-down creation of political type states, subconsciously if not overtly held by the Pope of Rome (he is currently a head of state). So it should be criticized for this type of innovative, anti-christian ecclesiology. Its followers love its simplicity and appeal to authority, but they soon will realize that it has been so thoroughly corrupted and changed that it can't possibly be, and never was, the true faith. Just look at how many social justice types it has produced just in America in the last 50 years. Now it has a "social justice" pope, a real former marxist/leninist from his youth.
Sadly, my feeling is that the intentionally uneducated "catholics" of the future will just lose their "faith" entirely as opposed to seeking out what true christianity is. Ironically, they were always close to it, they just failed to see how corrupt and political they became especially when they broke away in the early 2nd millenium. And now most all of them will be lost, precisely because they have had such a political connection to "this world" for so long ...