Whats the basis of protestant antagonism of the catholic church?

Question

Indugences?"sorry?" "yeah" "how sorry?" "tenner sorry" then youre tenner forgiven,go in peace"
If nothing else it teaches sincerity,thats sincerity protestant folks,look it up.

Catholics worship idols?no we dont,

we're against abortion?kill babies if your religion says its ok.

We're against divorce?how backwards is that?look ,when you marry up at the alter you do so in front of God in petition.Catholics only think you should respect the vow you made to God,
Ah but what do we know?

Pedophile priests?thats wildly overblown but it has i guess happened,I'm glad the catholic church instigated these investigations and got these sickos out,reckon they must have all nearly gone by now.I can smell the clean air.

TRIVIA,(true,i'm not making this up,it came out during the recent prostitute murders in ipswitch))did you know that its estimated that 1 in 82 people in the UK is a sex offender.

Catholic hirearchy?Protestants are far more obsessed with the catholic structure than catholics are?
The catholic church is pretty freewheelin and its easily the most natural feeling church out there.

sorry people not guilty of hating catholics,someone digged awhile ago,uncontrollable urge to dig back

Answer 1

Pastor Billy says: the basis is simply the origin of all Protestantism. If you aren't protesting Catholicism you would naturally be a Catholic Christian. Without the antagonism there wouldn't have been a bleeding away of believers into heresy. The first Protestant reformers needed to invent such a daming testimony of the first Church to the point of demonizing it to rip members away from the One Apostolic Catholic Church of Christianity. and that is the truth of it. To this day there are still uneducated who fall for the same old propaganda on Catholicism and never really know the true Church but something they think it to be. This is why the Church now refers to individuals in Protestantism as "separated brethren' as they have not been given the opportunity to hear what is authentically Catholic and what isn't.

for ms pad_whatever re: repetitous prayers

A friend of mine says that in Matthew 6:7, Jesus condemns repetitious prayers, which proves that it is wrong to pray the rosary. How do I respond?

A: Your friend read the passage a little too quickly. Jesus isn’t condemning repetition in prayer; he’s condemning vain prayer. When Jesus said, "Do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words" (Matthew 6:7, NAB), he was referring to a belief of the pagans that a god would not listen to your prayer unless you used his correct title, and the title would change every day. Thus, the pagans would begin their prayer with every title they could think of in order to make sure their prayers would be heard (e.g., "O Great Zeus, O Master of Olympia, O Great Father Zeus. . . .") Jesus tells us this is vain because pagan gods don’t exist, and when we pray to God he hears all our prayers. We don’t have to worry about getting the right title.

In fact, Scripture gives us many examples of repetitive prayer. For example, in Matthew 26:36-46, Jesus prayed the same prayer three times. In Revelation 4:8, four living creatures are around and within the throne, and day and night they do not cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty." And then there’s the tax collector in Luke 18:9-14 who is beating his breast repeatedly and praying, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner!" And let’s not forget Luke 11:1-4, where Jesus tells us how to pray: He gives us the Lord’s Prayer. Since most Christians pray the Lord’s Prayer from time to time, they are all "guilty" of repetitious prayer. But it is not vain prayer-after all, we merely are doing as Jesus taught us.

Any prayer can be prayed in vain. What makes a prayer efficacious is the attitude of the heart (cf. CCC 2559). And sadly, "If our heart is far from God, the words of prayer are in vain" (CCC 2562; cf. Matt. 15

Answer 2

The basis of antagonism is the need to be right and show the other person is wrong. This mainly comes from the Protestant religious leaders that feel that they must show how the Catholic church is wrong in order to justify their position as religious leade. In the 48 years of going to Mass, I have NEVER heard criticism of other faiths from a priest.

Part of this may also come from how proud some Catholics are of their faith. Protestants may see this as an attack on their beliefs and then they fight back.

The Catholic faith has lots of rituals and employs many gestures and symbols in their worship. Protestants may see this as "showing off" because their faith has abandoned these things. This will also lead to animosity.

Another source of animosity goes back to 1500, when the Proestant Reformation began. People were leaving the Catholic Church and the Catholic Church fought back. Back in 1500, the Catholic Church decalred anathema anyone who left the catholic Church. People translated "anathema" as "going to hell".

This may have been the attitude 500 years ago, but the Catholic Church does not have this attitude towards non-Catholics today. The Catholic Church states that non-Catholic Christians are brothers and sisters in Christ. Unfortunately, this fraternal feeling is not returned.

Answer 3

I will only attempt to answer presently here for myself. As a child until very recently, I could see the division in 'Christianity' (Catholicism and Protestantism) in the USA (and probably elsewhere) too. My question; Why? Especially in light of scriptures like 1 Cor. 1:12-16, and Jesus's prayer of unity (John, chapter ? (17?) at this moment).
There have been a few people (about 3 or 4 including 1 Catholic), that alluded a principle (combined with another principle) that should help unite some of Protestantism and Catholicism. The principle is the '2 or more witnesses' principle Matt.18:16, 1 Cor.13:1; combined with 2 Tim. 3:16-17 'All scripture is given by inspiration of God...'.
Applying these two principles yields the following; the scriptural old testament is not Genesis-Malachi (2 Tim. 3:16-17); but is the law of Moses (witnesses include Joshua, Nehemiah, David, Solomon, Malachi, Jesus, God the Father, Paul, and others).
Yes there are other issues dividing Protestants and Catholics presently but I would like to deal with them one at a time for now.
If you are presently serious about trying to unify Protestantism and Catholicism, I can be emailed presently.
Further thought; perhaps not applying those texts, is part of why atheists and agnostics in this country, tend to have negative opinions of 'Christians' currently.

Answer 4

It started with Henry VIII's marriage annulment to Katherine of Aragon. The latter was married to Henry's brother Arthur, who died and Henry VII their father made prince Henry marry Katherine, his sister-in--law to keep Katherine's dowry. A special papal dispensation was obtained to marry his sister-in-law then, in order to allay fraticide and gain possession of her dowry. Katherine was older than Henry VIII and not so very young on her re-marriage, only produced a girl plus I think several miscarriages. Henry VIII as the second son was destined for the church and had theological knowledge. He thought rightly or wrongly, way before the dogma of papal infallibility, which is only recent, that the Pope had exceeded his authority in granting dispensation for this re-marriage.His conclusion was the re-marriage was theologically flawed and that they were therefore living in sin. Consequently Henry VIII was being punished by not being able to have a male heir. He asked the Pope for an annulment, was in correspondence with the Vatican for about eight years, endeavouring to obtain such. As it happened Charles V, emperor of Spain, Austria and the Netherlands and nephew to Katherine of Aragon, conquered Rome in the meantime, the Pope became his captive and, any annulment was then out of the question, if the Pope wanted to remain alive. Henry VIII in a rage is purported to have said that if the Emperor Charles had hegemony over the Catholic Church of Rome, then
equally he,could prevail over the Anglican Catholic Church in England and hence the embryo of the split. The situation then evolved with the Saxon Martin Luther, who really lambasted the Vatican, in the process of building St.Peter's in Rome, sorely needed money and sold indulgences for donations. Agents of the Vatican were collecting these donations, which impoverished the German population to some extent. Furthermore, most people were illiterate and even if they were not, had to interpret the Holy Scriptures only in the way the Church prescribed. Luther set off to translate the New Testament in German, incidentally in three months, at the Wartburg Castle and, for the first time this Scripture was available in a European language. Furthermore, Luther said that only man's conscience could interpret the Gospel and nobody else could dictate its interpretation. The rest is detail and evolution which, would take too long to go into every detail. If you have any specific questions, I will do my best to reply, if I am able to.
Mariusethi

Answer 5

Raised Catholic - there are actually a lot of things in the Cath church which do not line up with Scripture, but were mandated by the Popes to retain control of the people. If you are really interested, you should do a study on the matter. It is too big of a topic for this forum.

I believe the Catholic Church is the apostate church mentioned in the Bible - the church that is married to the world. (But I could be wrong, of course)

Answer 6

Protestants represent the rejection of the long history of oppression and hypocricy by the Catholic Church.



"Pedophile priests?thats wildly overblown"

Pun intended?

In December 2006 the Archdiocese of Los Angeles argeed to payout 60 million dollars to settle 45 of the over 500 cases pending concerning abuse by priests.

How much molestation do you consider acceptable in the church?

Answer 7

That four marks distinguish Christ's kingdom of heaven on earth. They are made known in the Creed—"I believe in the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church."



One in:

Faith
Belief
Worship
Government


Holy In:

Origin, Christ.
Objective, redemption.
Means, sacraments.
Sanctity of faithful.


Catholic :

Teaches all nations.
During all time.
All Christ taught.
Peoples of all nationalities obedient to one universal authority in faith and morals.


Apostolic :

Founded upon apostles.
Teaches what apostles Apostolic taught.
Continuous existence from time of the apostles.
"The enemies of the Church themselves die and disappear, but the Church itself lives on, and preaches the power of God to ever succeeding generations" (St. Augustine).

Peace Be With You

Answer 8

I think it is mostly jealousy that the Pope has such a large following. Originally it was a protest that the Catholics don't follow Scripture, but none of Churchianity pretends to follow Scripture anymore. Maybe it is vestigial.

Answer 9

The Evil One comes to divide and plunder the body of Christ. Please don't be part of the problem, however.

I agree with the fellow down there that says we are only to worship Jesus Christ and the Trinity. That is what the Roman Catholic church has always been about. Anyone who says differently is a heretic.

Also, Paul the apostle himself said that he was our father in the faith. How do you explain that?

Ms. Paswanlearner here has apparently been studying Jedi principles more than she has her Bible. It clearly says that you must be Baptized to be saved. Also, ever heard of "confess your sins one to another".

Answer 10

Misguided hatred. That's why some Protestants behave that way towards Catholics...

...and why some Catholics behave that way towards Protestants.