Why do Christians feel the need to insult Catholics and their beliefs whenever they get a chance?

Question

I've seen questions and answers here that misrepresent and insult Catholicism grossly. What motivates you to tear another Christian down?

For those that think Catholics aren't Christians: THATS WHAT I MEAN...WE ARE CHRISTIANS. Where do you think your Bible came from? Who do you think St. Peter was? Why do you insist we aren't Christian? Do you have evidence, REAL EVIDENCE, and not pap that your pastor pushed on you?

Answer 1

We aren't tearing down other Christians. You're either one or the other...Catholicism and Christianity aren't the same thing.

Answer 2

There are Christians in every church but they do not put down anyone if they are truly a Christian. Telling the truth is one thing but putting someone down for what they believe is quite another. There are some things that the Catholic Church does and teaches that are not biblical but that is still no cause for putdowns. Just state the truth as Jesus would and let it be. Nobody should tear anyone down but build them up and share truth with them but in a nice way. I was in the Catholic Church for many years so I know what is taught and my mother and a sister is still in it but when I got to studying the bible, I could no longer stay with it as it did not teach what the bible taught and I was studying from the Catholic bible. Some things are in there but most are not. Catholics go more with tradition than the bible as the Church states in her writings. As it says, if the bible says one thing and tradition says the opposite, you must go with the tradition. I respectfully disagree with that. Only true way is the bible and the bible only, not tradition. Jesus did not go with tradition and never taught that so why should we now? I will never tear down another church or religion but I will tell what the belief is and why the bible says it is wrong.

Answer 3

Sweetie, we are not trying to tear another Christian down-we are trying to point out that Catholicism is a pseudo-Christian cult. It is solely a greedy, money hungry business that will even break the law to protect its interest. Just remember how it protected all those pedophile priest (who took a vow of celibacy) from prosecution. Every catholic alive is guilty of this and other crimes of the church because you will not stand up and demand that your clergy be cleaned out ant have the church repent for all its crimes against humanity. When the apostate Catholic church is completely cleaned out-then can restoration begin. As it stands it is a blasphemous apostasy.

Answer 4

Protestants are bitter at catholics for a few reasons. The Catholics pretty much came first, and turned Christianity from a religion of people getting fed to lions by those persecuting them to a major world power based incredibly heavily on a defined hierarchy.

Yeesh @_@ Take your pick. I'm agnostic, so what do I know?

Answer 5

I am not insulting, just stating facts.

The pope is JUST a man, he has no more closeness to God than you or I.

A priest CANNOT forgive you of sin, Christ already did that.

Rosary and other works are meaningless too. Works will not get you to heaven.

Jesus overturned the money changers in the church, but yet the Catholic church hold gambling in the undercroft on Monte Carlo night.

And getting baptized at birth is just getting wet. A conscience decision must be made by the believer to count as baptism.

Answer 6

Because non-Catholics have no understanding of the religion. They think that the bible is the key source of religion when most of the old Testament in itself was nothing but borrowings of Babylonian legends reinvented to favor the people of Judea. One of the three Kings that visited Jesus was from Babylon. Babylon means Gate of God. The Old Testament paints Assyrians and Babylonians as evil when in fact God cast the same judgements upon the Israelites as well which why throught the Assyrians he had them abolished from the land of Israel then again through the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezer.

Answer 7

There's nothing bad about Catholics and I never talk about them in a negative way; after all, they're christian. By the way, I'm a Protestant Christian. However, there are many differences between Catholics and Protestants. People discriminate against what they don't understand.

Answer 8

Do Catholics have the absolute assurance of their Salvation. No. No pope has ever been able to say that He was going to Heaven for certain... And any priest that would tell any one that they were going to Heaven for certain would be in violation of RC law... That alone makes them not of The Christian Faith. As it is in direct opposition to the Word of God as Spoken by Jesus The Christ... there are many other RC practices that are in oposition to God's Word... If an RC is insulted by the truth there is nothing that can be done about that...

RC doctrin and practice keeps many millions from Hearing The Word of God and from knowing The Way God proscribes for all to come to Him.

I will oppose any practice that seeks to decieve any one from knowing TheWay to God and Salvation.

Answer 9

I know our beliefs are not the same, but I personally wish you no bad. You must understand that the hate you are receiving is a sign of the last days that the speaks of. Please don't let people tear you down, you know that this does not reflect God's view of you. Continue reading your Bible and seeking to apply it's counsel. Some will listen to you and some won't, but your example will be what will give them the greatest witness.

Answer 10

I am Catholic, but I was raised Presbyterian. As a child, I always thought that crossing oneself was odd and different. I did not understand the whole thing about when to eat what kind of diet and that bothered me. It was as if it was a secret cult. When I became Catholic I realized that when one has a problem with a certain religion it is due to the fact that they are uncomfortable in their own.

Answer 11

I don't. But mostly it is ignorance from past teachings.
Every thing the Church has taught/ teaches is not Biblical. That is why people must think for themselves.
And also the praying to the Virgin Mary and St Peter confuse most Protestants- not understanding that Catholics are not praying to them as their Saviour- but for help and guidance.