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		"Anti-Catholicism Often Facilitates Conversions to Catholicism" John Augustine at Musings of an Amphibious Goat: .... As I grew closer and closer to accepting Catholicism, I read more and more anti-Catholic literature: from Jack Chick's books, comic books, and tracts to Lorraine Boettner's Roman Catholicism and anything else I could get my hands on. I continued to read Calvinist theology books (I had been deep into Calvinism when I began to discover Catholicism was more biblical). I asked my Baptist theology professors to voice their most serious objections to Catholicism. And the more anti-Catholic literature I read, the more I thought, "If these are the best reasons to stay away, I'm definitely going to become Catholic." Even after I became Catholic I continued to read as much anti-Catholic literature as I could. It's kinda like Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian (one of my favorite books). For those with an ironic spirit, it makes for great devotional literature! Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 09/05/02 07:57:04 PM Categorized as Classic.

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