"One weird phenomenon I've noticed on Catholic boards..."

From Catholic and Enjoying It!

Mark Shea shares a very good observation today:

.... Now I see Catholic converts arguing with critics of their faith, of course. What I don't see is this odd need to linger around the old neighborhood throwing stones through the allegedly shattered windows of an allegedly discredited Church. Indeed, what typically marks Catholic conversion stories such as Thomas Howard's, Scott Hahn's, Steve Ray's or virtually any of the wave of recent conversion accounts is gratitude for their Protestant roots. Virtually all of them have nothing but good things to say about their Protestant backgrounds even while they are contentedly Catholic. But there is a curious assymetry between these guys and people who leave the Catholic Church and then start writing polemics against it or lingering on boards to do battle with it. For these folks, there seems to be nothing good about the Catholic Church. There also seems to be a peculiar need to proclaim one's "liberation" from it, while simultaneously remaining in a weird form of unconscious bondage to it. It sticks in their craw. I want to ask such people why they are lingering about the Church throwing rocks and not actually embarking on their new and glorious life in Christ that they keep telling me they have while they are spray painting "The Pope sucks!" on every BBS they can find....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 09/23/02 01:41:06 PM
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