You do realize, Demi, don't you, that evangelical Christians do not consider Catholics to be Christian? Personally, I don't know. They seem pretty Christian to me. I do know that some in the Orthodox Church have expressed the opinion that it takes a hard heart to kill an animal, and even to eat it. I have an Orthodox Lenten cookbook which says just that.

Russ, if reading & studying a book many times is all it takes to be converted to a religion, then I hope you don't read the Koran or the Talmud 8 times! There has to be a pre-existing mental state that makes the reader/studier of ANY religious or philosophical book want to lap it up lock, stock & barrel. There are jewish scholars, Moslems also, who have studied your holy book inside out, but they never converted. So why do you believe that lack of sufficient study is the only "cause" of a person not wanting to be a (real) Christian in the sense that you are?