Is there a conflict between Catholics and Protestants?

Question

I don't hear about it where I live.


If there is, wheere did it start?

Answer 1

For mainstream Catholics and Protestants, there are minor disagreements on minor points of doctrine. All of the important stuff, like Jesus is the Messiah, totally agreed upon.

Some Catholics and Protestants on the fringes, blow our few disagreements into huge issues and cause much trouble.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

The conflict between Catholics and Protestants go way back to the beginning of Christianity. If you read the New Testament, you will find out that each preacher had there own way and were talking to different groups. It took until the 300's before the Bible was set to what it is today for the most part. Even this did not cause all of the disagreement to end. The Greek (Eastern) Orthodox Church is a split from the Catholic faith. At different times in history, the difference between the main faith at the time and the splinter faiths have erupted in violence. When Martin Luther posted the Edict of Worms on the Church door, he was not trying to splinter away from the Catholic church but to reform it. This ended up causing warfare for hundreds of years. In Ireland, the British moved Protestant settlers to Catholic Ireland and that is what has caused the fighting to go on between the Orange and the Green in Ireland.

Answer 3

Ok here's the deal. I happen to be a Protestant. I respect the faith of my brothers and sisters in the Roman Catholic Church. We are ALL Christians in that we all believe in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ and accept Him as our savior. I don't accept as true some doctrines of the Catholic church but that doesn't make them necessarily wrong. I can think of nothing that would sadden Christ more than to have members of His church hating each other. I think the biggest problem comes from the feeling from each side that the other doesn't feel they are legitimate. I believe that it might be possible to resolve some issues of conflict with doctrine between the main Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic church but it would take a tremendous desire and superhuman effort. This will not work for all non-Catholics who call themselves Christians for there are some who clearly fall into a classification that even to mainstream Protestant denominations is heretical. The bottom line is we might as well start loving each other now cause eternity is a long time.

Answer 4

Crack open a history book, dude. Take a trip to Northern Ireland and you'll see some conflict between Catholics and Protestants, though it is more political than a religious war. Both sides just happen to have different religions. In most areas of the world these days we get along. The conflict began in northern and central europe near the end of the renaissance. Priests within the catholic church began questioning the practices of the very church they were members of. Many of the lower order priests saw the church as corrupt and their way of thinking contrary to the original message of Jesus Christ. This difference of opinion led to a lot of revolutions, excommunications, wars and so on and so on as europe became divided into hostile camps. Go to any bookstore or library for more info.

Answer 5

I would say the conflict is more in the acceptance of doctrine and not between Catholics and Protestants. The early Catholic Church had a schism and some split off to the Eastern Orthodox due to disagreement over doctrinal teachings. Then there was some really terrible abuses in the Catholic Church, selling of indulgences, etc and Martin Luther was beside himself and decided to reform...hence the Protestant Reformation had its beginnings and it was just one group, those following the Catholic Church and those who followed Martin Luther as a way to protest and reform the abuses in the Catholic church. Then Protestantism began to split off into so many other groups and did not follow the Lutheran way until today, there are so many different Protestant denominations that have split off and gone their own ways. The Catholic church was very wrong in its abuses and scandals during the time of Martin Luther but I don't think in his attempts at reformation, Martin Luther would ever have imagined how things got to where they are today.

Answer 6

The basic difference between the two is that Catholics believe that the Eucharist actually is the body and blood of Christ, and the Protestants believe that their Eucharist is symbolic only.

In Ireland, there has been bloody fighting between Protestants and Catholics, although it is more political than religious I believe.

Answer 7

the attitude is from the hardcore protestants. it all started back in the day when the catholic church began selling indulgences (trinkets and other such things as forgiveness for the deads' sins). martin luther said that this was wrong and eventually broke away from the church. also the catholic church sees the bible as metaphorical where as the protestants see it as literal accounts of the past. i am an atheist who was raised catholic so i see it as all a bunch of crap. i learned this information in my history class last semester from a theistic professor so i am pretty sure it is accurate.

Answer 8

Only because the born-again protestants won't accept that catholics are christian. And maybe in Ireland to a certain degree because they support different sides of the home/british rule issue

Answer 9

I don't believe there is a conflict anywhere but Ireland, and isn't that more political than denominational? There isn't any conflict here in the U.S., although there are differences in the doctrine. Here everyone kind of leaves the others alone except for the atheists, they try to force their non-religion on everyone.

Answer 10

Catholicism once was the all.
Henry the 8th wanted a divorce and the Pope wouldn't grant it.
Henry threw Catholicism out of England.
He made himself head of the Church.
For a long time there was trouble between Protestantism and Catholicism, but these days they are both a bit redundant.