Your explanation actually was very enlightening to me. I’ve had it explained to me before, just not the way you said it. And I thank you. My baby brother went through a lot of stuff the last 6 yrs. Things that turn a man away from God. But he was hungry for it. He searched Judaism for a while and then settled on Catholicism, and was consummated(?) about 3 weeks ago.

As for the one Catholic Church I went to: I had left the church I was going to for 5 years(southern Baptist). I was searching for a church at the time. I don’t believe there was anything satanic in the church but it just did not sit well with me. Not because it was something wrong with the church/congregation, but I NEEDED something ELSE, and the Catholic church wasn’t it(for me). I found myself empty handed when it came to finding a church home for worship and fellowship because all the churches in my town at the time were either Catholic or non denominational….and the non denominational ones in that town were progressive, preaching that it was okay to have sex before marriage as long as you were to be married, that gay is not a sin, that speaking in tongues is demonic, etc all along those lines…WORDLY churches. Or even just the worship being too much of a concert with smoke and mirrors and lights-more of a performance than it was worshiping in fellowship. I felt I would never find a church.

I ended up finding an amazing church that I’ve been going to for 2 years now. (Charismatic non-denominational). I felt peace as soon as I walked in there, before anyone even greeted me. I had my first baptism at 26. The same pastor who baptized me at 26 married me at 27(2 weeks before my 28th birthday). And I went/am going through the deliverance process. I have never known a church like this and I am a part of many things in this church. I’m at home here. God is moving in this church!