{"id":3362,"date":"2011-09-24T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2015-03-19T14:53:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T21:53:04","slug":"talking-about-non-catholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/24\/talking-about-non-catholics\/","title":{"rendered":"You know what really grinds my gears?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4585 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/grind_my_gears-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/grind_my_gears-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/grind_my_gears.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>You know what really grinds my gears? :-\/<\/p>\n<p>The other day I overheard a conversation during which some of my Catholic friends were speaking particularly brutally about non-Catholics and the non-Catholic churches. There was little gentleness, respect or love. There were a few cheap shots and some statements that were just plain wrong.\u00a0Ironically, what I heard was\u00a0reminiscent\u00a0of some of the anti-Catholic tirades I&#8217;ve heard in the past&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I spent several years in Protestant circles and was greatly blessed there. During that time my love for Scripture was nurtured and I was surrounded by many, many inspiring people who lived out lives of deep prayer and courageous virtue. For this I will forever be\u00a0grateful.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, I found certain issues within Protestantism to be troublesome and some fundamental questions which Protestantism itself is unable to answer. This is why I&#8217;m Catholic. Even on this blog, I occasionally post entries in which I critique some of my former Protestant positions. However, I do hope that I always do this with\u00a0<a title=\"The Ecumenical Apologist\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/12\/the-ecumenical-apologist\/\">respect, gentleness and love<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I still have a great affection for our separated brothers and sisters in Christ.\u00a0Virtually every conversion story that I&#8217;ve heard of those who left Protestantism for the Catholic Church\u00a0have expressed similar sentiments.\u00a0Although they ultimately came into conflict with Protestant doctrines, they speak very warmly of their former denominations and express <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devinrose.heroicvirtuecreations.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/28\/tenacious-faith-my-debt-to-evangelical-protestantism\/\">gratitude<\/a> for the Christian witness they received there.<\/p>\n<p>So, when speaking about non-Catholics and non-Catholic churches, please do so with charity.\u00a0Otherwise, I may have to shout at you for a while&#8230;with respect, gentleness and love, of course \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what really grinds my gears? :-\/ The other day I overheard a conversation during which some of my Catholic friends were speaking particularly brutally about non-Catholics and the non-Catholic churches. There was little gentleness, respect or love. There were a few cheap shots and some statements that were just plain wrong.\u00a0Ironically, what I heard was\u00a0reminiscent\u00a0of some of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3262,276,349,2969,348],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-apologetics","tag-catholic","tag-charity","tag-featured","tag-protestant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56377,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions\/56377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}