switching denominations?

martinedwards

Don't want to hijack the why I'm a Catholic thread.......

I'm mguessing that MOST prods grew up in Prod families, most RCs grew up in RC families.

I grew up Presbyterian, but am now a full member of both Church of Ireland & Methodist churches.

still a prod though........

anyone made the BIG switch from one side to the other of the Prod/RC divide, which is a FAR bigger gap to cross than the very light line in the sand between the million Protestant denominations?

reasons?

Onesimus

Its early in the morning and I am still trying to wake up. Are you looking for conversion stories from People who were protestant and became Catholic?

philologos

Onesimus wrote: »

Its early in the morning and I am still trying to wake up. Are you looking for conversion stories from People who were protestant and became Catholic?

Or the other way around.

The Sky

I made the big switch from being an atheist to becoming Catholic just under a year ago, anyway I feel some people in Ireland do not want to be called Protestant even though their beliefs would be Protestant and not Catholic yet still refer to themselves as Catholic due to this culture that seems to imply that being Protestant is English and evil which is pointless as Protestants fought for Irish freedom but these people don't really have an interest in religion or God and it has just became a culturally belief rather than a actual belief and love for God.

Galwayguy35

The Sky wrote: »

I made the big switch from being an atheist to becoming Catholic just under a year ago, anyway I feel some people in Ireland do not want to be called Protestant even though their beliefs would be Protestant and not Catholic yet still refer to themselves as Catholic due to this culture that seems to imply that being Protestant is English and evil which is pointless as Protestants fought for Irish freedom but these people don't really have an interest in religion or God and it has just became a culturally belief rather than a actual belief and love for God.

Yes I think you are right, many people who call themselves Catholic would be better off just being honest with themselves and admitting they are Agnostic.

martinedwards

Same up north.

"I'm protesteant"

"really, which church do you attend?"

"Huh? whattaya mean?"

I'm a teacher so I have had this converstation literally dozens of times.

PDN

martinedwards wrote: »

Same up north.

"I'm protesteant"

"really, which church do you attend?"

"Huh? whattaya mean?"

I'm a teacher so I have had this converstation literally dozens of times.

In the North it seems like 'Protestant' and 'Catholic' refer to tribal identity rather than anything to do with church. Even if you're an atheist, you're either a Protestant atheist or a Catholic atheist.

emuhead

OP, I think that you would get more responses if you used the term 'other Christian denomination.' There is still a lot of historical and cultural baggage attached by some people by converting to / from Catholicism in Ireland.

Benny_Cake

martinedwards wrote: »

Don't want to hijack the why I'm a Catholic thread.......

I'm mguessing that MOST prods grew up in Prod families, most RCs grew up in RC families.

I grew up Presbyterian, but am now a full member of both Church of Ireland & Methodist churches.

still a prod though........

anyone made the BIG switch from one side to the other of the Prod/RC divide, which is a FAR bigger gap to cross than the very light line in the sand between the million Protestant denominations?

reasons?

I haven't, but I've thought about it. Largely due to some of the positions that the Catholic church has taken on social issues, as well as the rather top-down nature of the structure of the church which allowed so much of the scandals etc to go on for so long unfortunately. Actually the Church of Ireland has a lot that appeals to me, open discussion on the social matters of our times, lay involvement in church governance, but with a rich liturgy and respect for the Eucharist. As to why I haven't, you've put your finger o it in a way, it's a heck of a leap to make in Ireland still (that's not to say that it's something that I won't do though). As well as that, I feel that the church has been a positive in my life in may ways, I've met and known some great priests and religious people, including relatives, and that does have an impact too.

Trying different churches for size seems to be more the done thing in America, I read this blog by a guy who went to 52 different churches on 52 Sundays over a year!

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stopped being rc 28 years ago. now non denominational Christian.

martinedwards

Benny_Cake wrote: »

Trying different churches for size seems to be more the done thing in America, I read this blog by a guy who went to 52 different churches on 52 Sundays over a year!

that's perhaps just a LITTLE excessive!!

a few years back our church did a "go to" series.

3rd Sunday night of the month we'd go visiting (after telling the victims we were coming of course)

about 20 or so went to pretty much every denomination we could find over a period of about 2 years.

Reformed Presbyterians with thier unaccompanied singing and Greek Orthodox with thier liturgy were the two real culture shocks, though all of the others had things that we could cherry pick and bring back to our own worship structure.

we had several of the churches to us on return visits, with the Greek Orthodox priest taking a service in our church. such A POWERFUL PREACHER!!!

BrianCalgary

I grew up Anglican.
I then became a Catholic.
We left the Catholic church and went to the Christian and Missionary Alliance church.
We have been to North American Baptist as well as Baprtists of Western Canada and Pentecostal.

We now go to the Catholic church again.

We never left in anger or for theological reasons we have always felt that 'this is the place where God wants us to be now'.