Hello everyone, I have a question...
I was at my grandparent's house yesterday, with my sister and my uncle, aunt and one cousin. We had a good dinner together, and all my dad's family is Catholic. Since myself and my sister are not, we always seem to get a religious question thrown our way, and it always seems to motivate more and more religious questions. Sometimes it's fun, interesting and sometimes annoying.
Anyways, at one point in the conversation, my uncle asserts that my sister and I were both "baptized" Catholic (we were christened as infants), and that as much as we might want to undo things, that, we can never "undo" our "heritage." I reminded him that Catholicism is not a "heritage" or "nationality", and that if my sister and I are "Catholics" then we are really funny ones, who believe in One God,
Acts 2:38 salvation, holiness, and we deny the papacy, Mary-worship doctrines, ect, ect... Then they went on to say, "Well your names are still on the roles..." And I responded back with, "Then perhaps I ought to get excommunicated..."
The place went quiet...
My grandmother says, "Oh, umm... no, no... you don't want to do that."
My aunt says, "It's like double-insurance, just leave it alone..."
My grandfather mentions that if I just keep my name on the roles, even if I stay the way I am the Catholic Church will still be willing to do my funeral and bury me in a Catholic cemetery...
Although these answers were very "convincing"... NOT... I do wonder if this statement of excommunicating, might show my family that the Catholic Church is, indeed, nothing, and that I have nothing to fear by having my name taken off the roles, and even being, purposely removed from the Catholic Church. I have been apostolic since 2004, and even before that, I have gone to Protestant churches since I was 10, so I'm fairly well-removed from the Catholic Church, and I have no desire to return, and plus, if I did want to after being excommunicated, I'm sure they'd take me back, eh?
What do you all think?
-Bro. Alex
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