lapsed Catholic here. How do I return to the faith after years of apathy towards religion?
Lapsed Catholic here. How do I return to the faith after years of apathy towards religion?
Cooper Gomez
Jaxon Myers
Search for the evidence for Christianity, and chat to people on here.
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Noah Nguyen
pray for faith brother
Ethan Gutierrez
Go to church fuckwit
Charles Campbell
>funnyjunk
what year is it, 2007?
Oliver Gomez
Confession would be a good way to start.
Leo King
I do (occasionally) but I never get anything out of it. its always 10 minutes of scripture then 45 minutes of church hymns. So boring
Gavin Martin
Fly to a Muslim-majority for a few days then you'll see the light
Tyler Wright
take religions 'with a grain of salt' and don't worry about your lapse
Nathaniel Carter
Just close your eyes and think very hard, and click your heels together three times, and magic space aliens will become real! It's worked for every religion since the dawn of time. Anything pretend can become real, all you have to do is believe!
Caleb Morales
Do you believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins?
Carter Nguyen
Try the Latin Mass
Brayden Flores
(you)
Thomas Hill
ISHYGDDT
Gavin Wood
Stay lapsed
Dominic Murphy
why?
Oliver Jones
Become a nonbelieving cultural Christian, which is the ultimate red pill. Do you really think all the brilliant philosophers and mathematicians in European history believed in a literal interpretation of the Bible? They pretended to believe because they saw the cultural benefits of Christianity are unrivaled. Just head over to tumblr if you want to see how white people behave without Christianity.
Brayden Taylor
Stop being Catholic.
You don't need a middle man to speak to God, nor should you follow your cuck of a pope
Xavier Brooks
>its always 10 minutes of scripture then 45 minutes of church hymns. So boring
then find another one.
if they dont preach the Jesus is the way, and that only through Him is salvation, then leave that church. find one that teaches salvation, not just muh feels and happy story time lets sing hallelujah.
Tyler Ramirez
become a protestant
go about your daily life without changing anything and still feel fine about yourself
Liam Morris
Church, Praying, Study of Theology, Speak to fellow Catholics about how they feel about faith and why they practice. Praying the rosary helped me get back into the faith.
Honestly OP, just be involved with faith and pray.
Jonathan Richardson
>go protestant
>satanic trips
no thanks
Asher Rodriguez
Value the institution.
The Jesuits have it right. You can worship the institution and lie to bring people in.
The most powerful Catholics are non-believers.
Joseph Rodriguez
>wanting to worship a beaner that actively encourages the destruction of europe
this is why I can't take beaners like you seriously op, you're literally subhuman filth
John Martinez
Catholics have a shit retention rate. If anything they drive potential believers from the faith due to their adherence to traditions and heirarchy. They're fucking modern day Pharisees and Sadducees
Ian Gray
Reject the Papists and become a Protestant. We have cookies and exegesis.
Nicholas Murphy
>implying lapsed Catholics give a single shit about the pope
Ayden Ross
no. You have Christian Rock and Kirk Cameron. Also, see
Nolan Flores
Many lapsed Catholics in Europe started going back to church because of Freestylin' Frank. It was called the "Francis effect"
Austin Bell
Catholic mass is the worst. Most people who go there every week just sit there and daydream while not listening at all. It's so fucking boring.
Grayson Wood
I don't believe you
this. Been going my whole life and I know squat about the Bible
Nolan Cook
Well yea, I sat through one (protestant here) and the first half of it was in fucking latin and the second half was a sermon about sports
Jason Roberts
>go about your daily life without changing anything and still feel fine about yourself
Heh. That's how I've always seen Catholics.
The cotton candy deistic feel good retards have Christian rock. And terrible exegesis. The Protestants worth anything have Paul Washer.
Noah Gonzalez
You may like contemporvant worship.
Jason Rodriguez
every protestant church in my area is either a lukewarm LGBT friendly cuckshed or a mega church run by some millionaire used car salesman of a preacher. I'd rather stick to what I know unless you can give me a better suggestion
Noah Price
>unless you can give me a better suggestion
rtfm
Justin Cooper
I am Arminian but it's difficult to find an Arminian church that isn't what you described. I'd shoot for a theology-heavy Reformed church, since they're more grounded imo. That or an old timey Pentecostal church, maybe Assemblies of God or Church of God. Try a small one. Idk about COG but the bigger the AG church, the more fag it is, imo. The Southern Baptist convention can get into the mega realm but they're not very cuckish.
William Stewart
aren't Armenians Orthodox? And isn't Orthodox mass even more boring than Catholic mass?
Parker Nelson
No, Armenia is a country. Arminius is a man.
In a nutshell, Arminianism = Free will and Calvinism (aka Reformed) = Predestination (God chooses who goes to Heaven and Hell). Both have convincing arguments, and though I don't agree with Calvinists, I do think that overall they are more theologically literate and have better meme game.
Eli Wright
And because of this higher level of literacy and devoutness, I would recommend a Reformed church to an outsider, simply because the odds of finding a solid church within that subset are greater. Nothing is worse than going to a service that winds up being a Jesus pep rally indistinct from a concert. And nothing does better to foster a sense of shallowness in a denomination/fellowship and in the church as a whole.