2006-10-06 18:10:09 · 16 answers · asked by mrs.amberj 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. I am not a Catholic.
2006-10-06 18:11:37 · answer #1 · answered by Esther 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Catholics are Christians, from what I've heard, but it doesn't go the other way. A Christian does not have to be Catholic.
It's something like you can put a boat onto a ship, but not the other way around. The boat would be the Catholics; the ship would be the Christians.
And have you ever contemplated the concept that all Christians, including Catholics, are protestants? They all have their roots in those who left the Jewish faith 2,000 years ago.
2006-10-06 18:32:51 · answer #2 · answered by brightpool 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope they aren't...well kind of. There's Protestant and Catholic. Protestants are christians, and so are catholic. Sometimes catholics don't realize they are christians or something. Every person who believes in Jesus is a christian, though there's many different denominations.
2006-10-06 18:16:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics are a kind of Christian not all christians are catholic and being a christian simply means that you belive in the Christ and you accept him as the lords son...i'm christian but i am not a catholic...it's like saying that all blacks are african.
2006-10-06 18:14:01 · answer #4 · answered by Gorgeous 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Um...what? I think you have it a bit mixed up. Catholics are really Christians.
2006-10-06 18:13:58 · answer #5 · answered by Billy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amber did you know there are Christians who are not Protestants, who were never part of or broke away from the Catholic church?
2006-10-06 21:00:17 · answer #6 · answered by mike j 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's the other way around, sweetie--Catholics are Christians. And although I'm not Catholic, I'd be willing to bet they know it.
2006-10-06 18:14:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You must be saying that because you know that Jesus founded only one church, the Catholic church, for the salvation of all mankind, and for all generations, and that all Christian churches subsist in some imperfect way in the Catholic Church, which remains now and forever, one, holy, universal, and apostolic.
2006-10-06 20:07:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once a Christian has rejected the Pope as pontiff, they cease being Catholic. Read up on the Reformation (and counter-reformation, if that's your thing).
2006-10-06 18:12:52 · answer #9 · answered by kalindoscopy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In what sense of the word 'catholic' may you intend to mean? It may mean "universal, generic" believers in the broadest of terms. Moreover, I personally will not fall for the bogus religious practices that those of that persuasion put on in front of others for display just to be visibly seen to somehow please the holy, living, one, true God who only deserves a heartfelt worship for Him.
2006-10-06 19:40:39 · answer #10 · answered by farack 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋