It always amuses me to see so many Protestants demonizing the Catholic church....
2007-03-01 10:49:00 · 26 answers · asked by Salt Flakes 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Also, without Judaism, there would be no Christianity in general (Jesus was a Jew!!!)
2007-03-01 10:52:04 · update #1
without catholicism there would be no pope, either
the popes have ordered more death than muslims
2007-03-01 10:52:22 · answer #1 · answered by velvet underground 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋
The latter is quite true, however, we are not demonizing the Catholic church only the System. There are wonderful people in the Catholic faith and good people too, but I wonder if they read the Bible at all, because the Bible has so many things to say against the Catholic beliefs. I attended Catholic school from an elementary level for thirteen years, I had to attend the Mas and take part in certain concerts that the school and church put together, their beliefs are mixed with to much pagan practices.
2007-03-01 19:00:37 · answer #2 · answered by charmaine f 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whats your point? If protestants didn't have anything to protest they probably wouldn't have a denomination. They demonize the Catholic church because back in the day, in Europe, the catholic church was letting people believe they could buy their way into heaven.(The selling of indulgences) Which was the main reason why Martin Luther broke from the Catholic church in the first place.
And Christianity did not get its name from Judaism, they follow Christ, therefore, they are christian.
2007-03-01 18:56:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know where you get that idea from but the true churches existed from the time of Christ. The Catholics called them heretics and burn them at the stake. They murdered off hundreds of thousands of them and then claimed that Catholics were the only church around. By the way do you think that there were no Christians before Constantine started the catholic church in the three hundreds.
2007-03-01 18:56:16 · answer #4 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The church existed before Constantine got hold of it, of course, I'm sure you knew this.
I've always wondered how Peter will react when he finds out he was a "pope"? I just can't see him wearing that dress or that silly hat, and I'm pretty sure he would object if anyone were to get down on their knees in front of him to kiss his ring...did Peter even own any jewelry? I doubt it.
Did you know that both Peter and Paul deferred to the authority of the church in Jerusalem? So how was Peter the head of the church?
I always wondered how Paul missed the honor, since he actually had connections in Rome...
Oh, well....go figure....
2007-03-01 19:04:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Protestants (Methodists at least) believe in the Holy Catholic Church -- it's part of the ApostlesCreed -- don't know if today's Roman Catholics stand behind the Holy Catholic church though
2007-03-01 19:01:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ohhhh, ...so what you actually mean is....Do the HARLOTS (protestants) realize that without The GREAT WHORE MOTHER OF HARLOTS (Catholicism) there would be no Protestantism?.......Utterly sickening. You both deserve each other...........The RCCs devils advocate; Pope Benedict who poses as an angel of light, is hell-bent on sending the entire RCC straight to hell with a convoluted doctrine and a virtual cesspool of pagan ritual worship that are nothing but outright abominations against God........... The PCs are puppets on a string manipulated by Satan who corrupts the false teachers who preach doctrines of deceit and line their pockets with illicit greed of wealth and prosperity at the sole expense of Jesus Christ...........Both are self-righteous and reek of improprieties and blasphemies that will stand in judgment. For their iniquities have engulfed the very nature of the Beast........
2007-03-01 21:44:06 · answer #7 · answered by SLEDGE 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No no no no no! Don't you see, all along through history there existed Non-catholic "real Christians". They just never said anything until the 1520's or so. Why can't you see the plain truth of their existence through history's silence? Yep, that's right, they went by "the Bible only" even though nobody could read. In fact I think St. Augustine belonged to a nice little non-denominational church called "The Believer's Bible Chapel".
2007-03-01 18:58:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I guess the answer to this question is summed up best with another question. Do Catholics realize that without Judaism, there would be no Catholic church?
2007-03-01 18:53:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes because the protestants religion came from the catholic religion.
2007-03-01 18:52:32 · answer #10 · answered by Kim 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that most of them probably know this..but some of them don't. And you are correct in what you say about each religion giving birth to the other.....Judaism...Catholicism...
Protestantism. It seems when you start to break down the Protestantism, you have a gazillion different denominations.
2007-03-01 18:54:13 · answer #11 · answered by brewbeer212 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋