An urgent reason to be Catholic. When the souls under the altar in Heaven reach some number, God will have vengeance. What is that tipping point? How many souls, each maybe the size of a sparkler spark, are crying to Him to “avenge our blood”?
Revelation 6: 9-11 “When he broke open the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the witness they bore to the word of God. They cried out in a loud voice, ‘How long will it be, holy and true master, before you sit in judgment and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?’ Each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to be patient a little while longer until the number was filled of their fellow servants and brothers who were going to be killed as they had been.”
There are many kinds of martyrs. Every human soul is “made in the image of God”. Every human soul bears witness to “the word of God” that brought them into being at the moment of their conception.
A billion aborted babies have been slaughtered. Each was martyred because of “the witness they bore to the word of God” just by being. They are among the martyred souls seeking vengeance.
There are other souls beneath the altar. Even tinier babies have been killed by abortion-inducing chemicals and devices used as “birth control”. Another billion souls? Two? Those babies are also in “the image of God”. They also “had been slaughtered because of the witness they bore to the word of God”.
The Catholic Church teaches that artificial birth control is wrong. 43,000 non-Catholic denominations think artificial birth control is “acceptable” or, even “desirable”.
Each of us will stand before God at Judgment. Those billions of martyred souls will be our jury. Can those who chose to support the “We can kill unborn babies and still get into Heaven.” denominations get anything but a verdict for the eternal vengeance those jurors seek?
Those able to understand have an urgent reason to be Catholic. None of us knows how much time we have before we stand before that jury.
