2006-11-13 13:56:12 · 7 answers · asked by sfgiants#1 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As a person living in a mostly Catholic country (Argentina) I have to say I definitely hate the church. I don't hate ordinary Catholics. Some of my best friends and a former girlfriend are Catholics. But the hierarchy is autoritarian, and invasive of non-Catholics' rights. To give you an example, the Minister of Health of Argentina (a sort of secretary of state) stated that condoms are usually safe. A Catholic priest said that this minister had to be thrown into the river with a stone round his neck for saying that. In other words, he was suggesting that a person who may or may not be a Catholic himself, had to be subjected to Catholic laws, above the laws of the state.
2006-11-13 14:00:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
THE Roman Catholic Church states: "The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion . . . Thus, in the words of the Athanasian Creed: 'the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God.' In this Trinity . . . the Persons are co-eternal and co-equal: all alike are uncreated and omnipotent."—The Catholic Encyclopedia.
Nearly all other churches in Christendom agree. For example, the Greek Orthodox Church also calls the Trinity "the fundamental doctrine of Christianity," even saying: "Christians are those who accept Christ as God." In the book Our Orthodox Christian Faith, the same church declares: "God is triune. . . . The Father is totally God. The Son is totally God. The Holy Spirit is totally God."
Thus, the Trinity is considered to be "one God in three Persons." Each is said to be without beginning, having existed for eternity. Each is said to be almighty, with each neither greater nor lesser than the others.
Is such reasoning hard to follow? Many sincere believers have found it to be confusing, contrary to normal reason, unlike anything in their experience. How, they ask, could the Father be God, Jesus be God, and the holy spirit be God, yet there be not three Gods but only one God?
2006-11-13 22:14:31 · answer #2 · answered by pachequito 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I love the Catholic Church.
For a long time I questioned its teachings. But I also investigated it. After a thorough investigation of scripture and the catechism, I realized nearly all my objections were totally unfounded. I got tired of being wrong all the time.
I still question things about the church, but my faith tells me that when something confuses me its probably because I don't fully understand the teachings on the subject yet.
2006-11-13 22:14:46 · answer #3 · answered by Andrew 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I despise and distrust Catholicism.
The reason?
Four years ago, my Roman Catholic grandparents were murdered (i.e euthanized) by their own Roman Catholic sons and daughters. A year after that, they took my rightful inheritance. The predominantly Roman Catholic and Christian community did not lift a finger to file charges against those animals because they were influential members of the community.
nuf sed.
2006-11-13 22:07:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Catholic church claims to be a Christian Church, but the things that they teach are not what Christ taught. I could give you a list, but I will leave that to someone else to type out. I am sure someone will.
2006-11-13 22:14:34 · answer #5 · answered by Freedom 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think the Vatican hides what does not support it's positions.
I believe that if those who wanted to learn had access to EVERYTHING that the Vatican keeps in it's basements/vaults it would be a very different world.
just my opinion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/gnostics.html
2006-11-13 22:04:03 · answer #6 · answered by rwl_is_taken 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think it is shockingly lacking in biblical teaching and oddly insistent on promoting false, non biblical, man-made traditions.
2006-11-13 22:02:17 · answer #7 · answered by Esther 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋