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Summary: Hilarious! You mean people fall for this book?
Review: A friend who converted from Roman Catholicsm gave me this book hoping to help "save" me from the church I left.
I was visiting his house and read the first chapter while there. I never laughed so hard in my life. I have since been re-reading each chapter and sending him rebuttals.
The author seems to wish to subsitiute the infallibility of the Pope with the infalibility of his own interpetation of scripture, and from the text many weak Catholics are falling for it. He talks of Satan's plan to use the Church yet his misses Satan's actual plan, I quote from my rebuttal to Chapt 4:
"The basic plan is simple: First divide the church, (the initial reformation) then divide the dividers. This is why there are thousands of different denominations. They are copies of copies of copies each one losing a bit of the truth along the way. Think of it this way: Luther said in the initial break that there are only two sacraments (Baptism & Communion), Your denomination only recognizes Baptism although it may not call it a sacrament. The Jehovah's Witnesses don't recognize the divinity of Christ and so it goes. This is how some protestant churches have reached the point where married gay clergy is a point of discussion instead of a settled known sin."
C.S. Lewis warned of this:
"You will say that these are very small sins...remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter how small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing." (screwtape letters chapt 12)
Maybe Mr. McCarthy doesn't understand what he is doing when he attacks the Church but he sure isn't going to convert any but the very ignorant or very guilt ridden looking to blame the church for their sins. (again the easy way out) with this thing.
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Summary: very insulting
Review: I found this book to be very insulting to Catholics, the book is about Catholics leaving the church I was shocked to find this book having Mary on the front what a lousy book
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Summary: One sided loon into Catholocisim
Review: If you think, as a Bible Christian or a Catholic, that you are getting a fair and objective view of the Catholic church and the Catholic faith, you are mistaken. I don't know a single Catholic that belives the things Mr. McCarthy spewes from these pages. It is a one-sided and unfair look into a faith that Mr. McCarthy knows nothing about. Don't be lazy and take this book at face value! Do your own research and look at both sides before you decide!
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Summary: One-Sided Conversations with Catholics
Review: In James McCarthy's book, "The Gospel According to Rome", he presented the Catholic position in a very straightforward manner, then challenged it with his interpretation of specific Bible verses. Unfortunately, in "Conversations with Catholics" it seems like all bets are off, and if you don't believe what he believes, then you must not be a Christian. The best illustration of this for me was when he met Sr. Teresa on a bus trip across Ireland. He truly enjoys conversing with her to the point that he comes to believe that "maybe she's a believer, a sister in Christ" yet when she tells of making a pilgrimage to Rome to gain a plenary indulgence, McCarthy immediately dismisses her in his mind and feels that she "had no qulams about adapting the explanation of her Faith for my evangelical ears". What conceit on McCarthy's part! Especially when the woman was truly sharing her love of the Lord! This book's only purpose, in my opinion, is to try try to persuade everyone to the author's viewpoint, and to condemn everyone else that would dare differ. Maybe we all should wake up and accept the love of our Lord in each of us. And maybe one day, with the grace of God, McCarthy will focus his energies on those who truly do not know the Lord, rather than trying to bring Catholic Christians around to his way of thinking.
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Summary: Worth Reading!
Review: Mr. McCarthy, a former Catholic, provides a Biblically based, engaging and informative book about Catholics. Unlike The Gospel According to Rome, this book is conversational in nature and focuses on Catholics rather than Catholicism. Catholicism is defined. The RCC stated their beliefs in the Catechism of the RCC, 1994. On the other hand, Catholics don't necessarily know the Catechism or believe it. Mr. McCarthy does an excellent job of explaining this phenomenon, addressing key doctrinal issues and building the reader's understanding of Catholicism. A GOOD READ!
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Summary: Don't believe them
Review: The book is structured in such a way that each chapter is an entity in itself. But each chapter has a different focus on a unique doctrinal belief or practice of the Roman Church. The author uses a testimony of the experiences of individuals and the problems they had with the Roman Church. The major Roman doctrine or practice is then briefly highlighted and critiqued with the applicable Scriptural viewpoint. A good easy to read presentation of some of the unique Roman Church doctrines and practices that will give one a general understanding of both basic Christian doctrine and the traditions of the Roman Church from which these unique beliefs evolved.
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