Quora Answer: Can a Catholic Date a Christian?
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is my answer to a Quora question: “ I am a Catholic teen girl. My boyfriend is Christian, and his mother says he cannot date me unless I am Christian. What do I do? ” If you are Catholic, then you are Christian. And as for these people who are “Christians”, they are simply Protestants, Christian groups that arose during the Reformation, 1,500 years after the Catholics and the Orthodox Churches. This begs the obvious question: what makes people who follow beliefs that arose 1,500 years after the Church of Rome think they are closer to the original teachings? I was never impressed with Martin Luther, John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, or John Knox. I found the so-called democratisation of Scripture to be an exercise in anti-intellectualism, and a dilution of the academic traditions of Christian theology, particularly theodicy and Christology. We have lay people, with no groun...