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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
You paged? 
The biggest reason I have remained Catholic over any other religion is that I am incredibly opposed to evangelism. It's not appropriate. The first time my boyfriend (son of a very conservative Protestant minister) came to a Mass with me the priest gave a sermon about how Catholics evangelize through their actions rather than their words. He was absolutely boggled by that because he grew up in a home where you were expected to tell everybody about Jesus all the time.
I would be really happy to answer specific questions that you have.
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Oh yes, and we had a little chat in another thread about that a while ago.
I'm Presbyterian. While we are supposed to spread the word of Christ, it is no different than how Catholics do it really. A lot of volunteering and check writing and good actions, but no corner standing and preaching. On top of that, we don't "preach" to the members about birth control, abortion, etc. I know there are stances on it, but I've never heard a minister say even a speck about it from the pulpit nor seen it in any material sent to me from the church. AND, we were just a few votes away (seriosuly, I think 2 or 3) at the last General Assembly from approving ordaining openly gay ministers. We're considered VERY liberal in our views. So it always strikes me as interesting that someone like you - who I consider to have very similar politcal/social beliefs as my own - would choose to stay a Catholic.
Not judging, yo, and not say you need to convert to Presbyterianism, just putting it out there!
But if you do want to convert, I can write you a rec. But you only really need one if you choose a church in the South, but it never hurts in the Midwest either!