why do some people look down at catholics as bad people because of their religion??

Question

as bad or just looked down on or apart from christians?

Answer 1

I dont think that Catholics are "bad" people any more so than any others. I just do not believe that anyone can do 10 Hail Marys' and their sin be absolved.

Answer 2

Hmm...interesting perspective. I think there's a good deal of unfortunate history between Catholics and...well practically everyone else, because as has been rightly said, the early Christian faith evolved into the Catholic faith - the setting up of popes, doctrine and above all, the missionary zeal that originally made Christianity such a viable faith across the world. It required a certain rigidity of thinking to achieve that, and it's a rigidity that persists today when arguably, it has served its purpose - the doctrine of papal infallibility for instance essentially gives one man the power of what is sinful and what is not within the Catholic world. Also, historically, the Catholic hierarchy was responsible for a lot of unfortunate action - the Crusades, the Witch Hunts, the Spanish Inquisition etc - all largely as a result of the same inflexibility, so maintaining it in this day and age tends to scare some people.

But apart from that, it's the same reason that any rebellious teenager turns on their parents. Catholicism was the first, the parent branch if you like, of established, widely-successful Christianity. Now whether, as some people have said here, other branches simply broke away from that because it gave them license to do what they liked, or whether they broke away because they recognised other ways of communing with god that went against the rigidity and hierarchy of Catholicism, the break was never technically with God, but with what were often perceived to be unhealthy practices within the Catholic church - the gold, the incense, the ritual and pointy hats, the "Princes of the Church" etc.

Ultimately, it's probably the pomp and the unchangeability that are the modern Catholic church's biggest enemies - we live in an age where absolutes make many people uncomfortable, and where modern technology makes dealing with literal miracles harder still. The general unwillingness to change or dilute articles of dogma seems to put Catholicism, along with Islam and Judaism, in an Old World category that appears at odds with mainstream, middle-of-the-road, socialised religion in the 21st century.

Answer 3

Ignorance


Roman Catholicism is #1 in the major branch of Christianity



Christianity began in the 1st century AD as a Jewish sect, and shares many religious texts with Judaism, specifically the Hebrew Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament (see Judeo-Christian).

There is a diversity of doctrines and practices among groups calling themselves Christian. These groups are sometimes classified under denominations, though for theological reasons many groups reject this classification system.Christianity may be broadly represented as being divided into three main groupings:

1) Roman Catholicism: The Roman Catholic Church, the largest single body, includes the Latin Rite and totals more than 1 billion baptized members.

2) Eastern Christianity: Eastern Orthodox Churches, Oriental Orthodox Churches, the 100,000 member Assyrian Church of the East, and others with a combined membership of more than 300 million baptized members.

3) Protestantism: Groups such as Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformed/Presbyterians, Congregational/United Church of Christ, Evangelical, Charismatic, Baptists, Methodists, Nazarenes, Anabaptists, Seventh-day Adventists and Pentecostals. The oldest of these separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century Protestant Reformation, followed in many cases by further divisions.

Estimates of the total number of
Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in this category, but it seems to be unquestionable that Protestantism is the second major branch of Christianity (after Roman Catholicism) in number of followers.

Answer 4

Because that's just how human beings are. People have a tendency to judge people that are different in whatever aspect for usually some stupid reason.

But don't be too quick to judge yourself! Us Catholics in our own history have been guilty of judging others for their beliefs and labeling them demons (i.e. The Native Americans, Protestants in the 1500's-Present, the European Jews, etc).

This is an issue with humanity nothing special that Roman Catholics are feeling.

Answer 5

Most Protestants don't view Catholics as bad people. But they have to view Catholicism as bad because they know they came into existence as the result of a rebellion against Catholicism. If Catholicism is bad, then perhaps their rebellion was justified, even though it has resulted in widespread fragmentation of Christianity, in direct voilation of the stated will of God, "that they all may be one". But if the Catholic Church is what it claims to be, and what history plainly reveals it to be, then it was the Protestant rebellion itself that was bad, and Protestantism itself that lies outside the will of God. Therefore many Proyestants take every opportunity to denigrate the Catholic Church in a desperate though futile effort to legitimize their own existence.

Answer 6

I have never personally experienced that kind of behaviour from being Catholic, but I have been told why there could be a problem, and it makes me laugh. People tend to believe that Catholics worship Mary more than we do God Himself, which is absolutely incorrect. People may look down on Catholics because they are ignorant and do not know any better.

Answer 7

Catholics can sometimes get a pretty nasty stereotype for being really negative toward people of other religions. Moral in a 'stuck up/better than you' kind of way, and some might try to push their beliefs off onto other people. It depends on the individual's level of open-mindedness, I think.

Answer 8

Well, there's this thing about you SINNING on a DAILY or WEEKLY basis and getting ABSOLUTION from your religious leaders.

I mean, why not JUST DO AWAY with sin all together.

Why not just ABOLISH the concept!

I mean, I'm a catholic, I go out with a girl, we start kissing, get hot and bothered and have sex, but we aren't married.

Hey, three hail Mary's five stations at the cross and things are squared with God, except for that Bible Passage from JEsus saying TO KEEP FROM BEING A FORNICATOR ALL MEN SHOULD MARRY and that passage from PAUL saying you shouldn't even sit at a table with a fornicator.

That's my biggest problem with YOU guys. Aishah is my biggest problem with Muslims. I will not praise a man who has sex with a 9 year old girl.

My next biggest problem with YOU guys is Jesus statement ALL men should marry, yet your POPE won't let Priests marry and that wasn't ALWAYS in the Catholic REligion. ONCE upon a time they were allowed to marry, but then some MAN changed it.

Get over those two problems and I'll have less of an issue with you.

You asked for the truth, I gave it to you.

Oh, yeah. And that: Only true religion of God and Jesus bit, too.

Hey, let's get back to the ALL MEN SHOULD MARRY part, if you're really true to Jesus you guys would follow that instead of whitewashing things.

You know what a priest should say in the confessional

You're going to HELL unless you marry the girl you had sex with.

So, that's you're pennance. No Hail Mary's, no Stations at the cross. MARRY HER forever. You had sex with some girl, you're married in God's eyes, now get married in the CHURCH or YOU WILL BURN IN HELL and GOD WILL NOT FORGIVE YOU.

That's what you should be saying.

Otherwise you allow some Catholic Guy the right to screw every girl in the church in exchange for a few Hail Mary's

Is THAT Godly!

And those Priests who screw young boys. Put them on SUSPENSION WITHOUT PAY pending legal outcome and if they are Acquitted reinstate them and give them back pay.

But take their COLLARS AWAY on the spot.

Tell them to go stock shelves at K-Mart.

Answer 9

Most do not KNOW what the Catholic Church teaches. They get some trumped up nasty version from some people that got their idea of Catholicism the same way (few ever really investigate-- if they do, they convert)

If you want proof, check out some of the above answers, -- downright warmongering over something that isn't even true!

Answer 10

because catholics have been the ones who have committed some of the greatest atrocities in history. The Spanish Inquisition for one. There have been so many corrupt popes that have bought their way into the position too. All this together it's hard to take Catholicism seriously. Catholics used to "Buy" their way out of purgatory in the form of indulgences. C'mon.

Answer 11

I have just read some of the statements and one person said he would not let his children near Catholics. To his comment we are not pedophiles
We believe in God and follow the Bible to the letter I have been a Catholic for nearly 53 years and am proud of being a Catholic and love my faith which is from God

God Bless You