Who despises the Catholic Church?

Question

This organization that says they are so knowledgeable, trustworthy and above all correct, is the same one that over the centuries has killed hundreds or thousands of people by torture, they've stolen many millions of dollars, they don't admit there mistakes and continue to act irresponsibly, such as the most recent behavior they operate under which is child molesting and sex within the organization. They are a complete joke and a bunch of hypocrites.

Answer 1

Let's say that I think the Catholic Church is politically and morally corrupt.

Answer 2

I am not a huge fan of the Vatican and the hierarchy. They have been secular princes for centuries. I resent their involvement in things like abortion and Gat marriage, and of course their historical history of genocide.

I am a big fan of a lot of the work the catholic church does at the local level. They have been a vehicle for change and improvement in South America for decades. They do many good and charitable deeds.

I am a big fan of the traditions and aesthetic value of the catholic church. I find their values and beliefs, and I don't mean the religious ones, a lot more sensible then that of most protestants.

As a generalization, I tend to get along much better with catholics then I do with most protestants. In this day and age they also seem to have far fewer crazies and fundamentalists then the wasps do.

Answer 3

The term Jew is used in at least two senses in Scripture: to refer to those who are ethnically Jews and to those who are religiously Jews. Jesus was a Jew in both senses. In fact, he completed the Jewish religion by serving as the Messiah (Christ) whom the prophets had long foretold.

The completed form of the Jewish religion is known as Christianity, and its adherents are Christians or "followers of the Christ." Unfortunately, many people who were ethnically Jewish did not recognize Jesus’ role as Messiah and so did not accept Christianity, the completed form of Judaism. Instead, they stayed with a partial, incomplete form of Judaism. Other Jews (the apostles and their followers) did recognize that Jesus was the Messiah and embraced the new, completed form of Judaism.

Shortly thereafter it was recognized that one could be a follower of Christ even if one did not ethnically join the Jewish people. Thus the apostles began to make many Gentile converts to the Christian faith. It is thus possible for a person to be a Jew religiously (because he has accepted Christianity, the completed form of the Jewish faith) but not be a Jew ethnically. This is the case with most Christians today.

It is this difference between being a Jew ethnically and religiously that lies behind Paul’s statement in Romans 2:28–29: "For he is not a real Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something external and physical. He is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart, spiritual and not literal."

Christians are those who Paul refers to as being inwardly (religiously) Jewish, while non-Christian Jews are those who he refers to as being outwardly (ethnically) Jewish. The former condition, he stresses, is the more important.

Unfortunately, over the course of time some Christians broke away from the Church that Jesus founded, and so a name was needed to distinguish this Church from the ones that broke off from it. Because all the breakaways were particular, local groups, it was decided to call the Church Jesus founded the "universal" (Greek, kataholos = "according to the whole") Church, and thus the name Catholic was applied to it.

That is why Jesus was a Jew and we are Catholics: Jesus came to complete the Jewish religion by creating a Church that would serve as its fulfillment and be open to people of all races, not just ethnic Jews. As Catholics, we are those who have accepted the fulfillment of the Jewish faith by joining the Church that Jesus founded.

Answer 4

I'm glad u asked this question. I'm a baptized Catholic, but I don't believe in the Catholic Church. Within the last couple of years, the Catholic Church has downgraded from ok to worse because of three main reasons.

1. Pope John Paul the 2nd's death
2. All the recent people recanting memories that they were sexually abused by their priest decades ago.
3. Our current pope, who has a hard time accepting other religions like Islam, and makes references to texts from hundreds of years ago.

Although I can't despise Pope John Paul the 2nd's parting, everything else I said is true. I believe in accepting ALL people from ALL religions, unlike most Catholics. I also believe that everyone is equal and should be treated fairly.

Answer 5

And amazingly enough, the Catholic Church is in fact, the only Church that Jesus ever founded on the earth, and the only church he ever endowed with power and authority over men, and the only church he has promised to bless and keep, until he comes again.

The church has been ravaged by corruption, both from within and without, ever since the earliest days.

Even Christ had his Judas.

God has always known how to deal with that. He is, and he will.

But when he set up his church, he did it in such a way that the weaknesses of men could have no detrimental effect on the holiness of his church, which is based only on Christ, or on the purity of the doctrine it teaches, which is a function of the Holy Spirit, or on its' contnuing ability to offer salvation to all, which is the express will of God the Father.

As for you, who sees fit to criticise what God has wrought, and paid for with his own blood, what's your excuse?

Answer 6

.....eight years of hypocrisy and intolerance being crammed down my throat in my CCD classes pretty much turned me atheist.

On a less obviously cynical note, I have a few reasons for feeling the way that I do. I never liked the overly ceremonial aspect of it, the feeling that the priest was talking down to us, and the idea that the church says to love all but then helps get socially conservative political candidates into office to prevent rights being given to certain groups of people. I never liked the never-changing views on certain things, like creation, when we have strong scientific evidence against it. I'm fully convinced that the old "No meat on Fridays, but you can eat fish" thing was a result of economic pressure way back when....like someone high up in the early church was a struggling fisherman. Something that gives hope is admirable.... but something that goes against all common sense is not.

Answer 7

Not me, even if it makes some mistakes and has some bad leaders.

Isn't judging a whole institution similar to throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

Isn't much of what this church teaches valid even if some of its adherents are corrupt?

Isn't there even hope for the one who is trying to stir up hate?

Answer 8

Well they do have a lot of charities for people in need, but their past deeds and their current troubles are not forgotten, the Catholic Church is far from perfection.

Answer 9

I am not particularly fond of Catholics, but I find them to be far less creepy than the countless other denominations out there... particularly evangelical Christianity, which is rife with hypocrisy also.

Answer 10

I am truly sorry that you feel that way. I hope you don't object if I continue to love the Catholic Church.