What is religious preoccupation?

[Jacob]

What do you do if you are accused of being religiously preoccupied? Self-introspection and turn the other cheek?

 

[Idolater]

What do you do if you are accused of being religiously preoccupied? Self-introspection and turn the other cheek?

Nobody ever accuses Catholics of that. There's no limit to how preoccupied you can be in Catholicism, and it's all legit. Just fyi.

 

[Jacob]

Nobody ever accuses Catholics of that. There's no limit to how preoccupied you can be in Catholicism, and it's all legit. Just fyi.

Interesting. Are you saying that it is because I am not a Catholic? I interact with more than Jews and Christians, but maybe this was the state or government interacting with me.

 

[Idolater]

Interesting. Are you saying that it is because I am not a Catholic?

Yes, it was just fyi. Catholics who desire religious preoccupation have many different options from which they can choose to pursue. Religious orders. Or, for single men, you could also of course pursue ordination as a priest. If you're married or single, you could pursue the diaconate, become a deacon.

I interact with more than Jews and Christians, but maybe this was the state or government interacting with me.

OK. Do you know which?

 

[Jacob]

Yes, it was just fyi. Catholics who desire religious preoccupation have many different options from which they can choose to pursue. Religious orders. Or, for single men, you could also of course pursue ordination as a priest. If you're married or single, you could pursue the diaconate, become a deacon.
OK. Do you know which?

I was detained. I do not understand it all. Someone detained me. I do not know who it was.

I am okay now. This was a while ago. I am still trying to understand it all.

Interesting about religious preoccupation being encouraged or provided for by the Catholic Church. I would not want to be a pagan priest, or a deacon contrary to scripture. I do see myself as a servant.

 

[Jacob]

Anyone?

 

[Idolater]

I was detained. I do not understand it all. Someone detained me. I do not know who it was.

I am okay now. This was a while ago. I am still trying to understand it all.

How do you not know who detained you? Were you conscious? Were they disguising their identities, like with masks?

Interesting about religious preoccupation being encouraged or provided for by the Catholic Church.

I think that rather, what in other Christian or other religious traditions, is identified as religious preoccupation, is in Catholicism called being a member of a religious order. Some familiar ones you may have heard of, like the Jesuits, Dominicans, Franciscans, and Carmelites. There are many outlets in Catholicism for whatever it is that compels religious preoccupation in other traditions.

I would not want to be a pagan priest, or a deacon contrary to scripture.

Nobody's suggesting that you do those things.

I do see myself as a servant.

OK.

 

[Jacob]

How do you not know who detained you? Were you conscious? Were they disguising their identities, like with masks?
I think that rather, what in other Christian or other religious traditions, is identified as religious preoccupation, is in Catholicism called being a member of a religious order. Some familiar ones you may have heard of, like the Jesuits, Dominicans, Franciscans, and Carmelites. There are many outlets in Catholicism for whatever it is that compels religious preoccupation in other traditions.
Nobody's suggesting that you do those things.
OK.

I mean that I do not know if it was the state or the government. The person I saw but she did not keep her word on meeting with me later.

 

[MennoSota]

Religious Preoccupation: The early arrival of too many Christians at Chick-fil-A. [emoji16]

 

[Jacob]

Religious Preoccupation: The early arrival of too many Christians at Chick-fil-A. [emoji16]

I do not know what that is.

 

[Crucifer]

Nobody ever accuses Catholics of that. There's no limit to how preoccupied you can be in Catholicism, and it's all legit. Just fyi.

>Idolator
>Catholic
>From Mass
>Ancestors probably killed a bunch of people
>Eats Irish food
>Can't help but question Catholicism in having natural rebellious qualities

 

[Idolater]

>Idolator
>Catholic
>From Mass
>Ancestors probably killed a bunch of people
>Eats Irish food
>Can't help but question Catholicism in having natural rebellious qualities

What's this? :idunno:

 

[Crucifer]

What's this? :idunno:

A major guess,
How accurate was I?

 

[Idolater]

A major guess,
How accurate was I?

Let's see.

>Idolator

My cryptonym, check.

>Catholic

Nope. I'm Catholic in my theology. I have not been received into the Church.

>From Mass

It says so right under 'Idolater,' check.

>Ancestors probably killed a bunch of people

Makes me a human, check.

>Eats Irish food

Who doesn't like taters? Check.

>Can't help but question Catholicism in having natural rebellious qualities

Looks like two thoughts. One, can't help but question Catholicism. Naturally. It's just that recently, there've been zero challenges that weren't deftly deflected and even turned right around on me, forcing me to become even more convinced in Catholicism as the authentic Christian tradition, the one built by Christ, and taught by the Apostles first, and then by bishops that the Apostles themselves created. So check on that one.

And then 'having natural rebellious qualities.' I can't truthfully confess that I'm not a rebel at heart, in my flesh anyway. But even my flesh accedes to Holy Catholicism. While not Catholic, I am, as I believe are all non-Catholics, 'Catholic on the way to full communion.' So check? Check.

By my count that's six out of seven, a .857 batting average.