Why do people try to seperate "Catholic" religion and "Christian" religion.?

Question

I know "Christian" is referring to protestants and lutherans, but in reality Catholics ARE Christians. Why do people keep trying to seperate the two? They are much more similar than they are different.

Answer 1

It's called ignorance of their own religious roots.

Answer 2

All the Catholic churches are under the authority of the Pope. The other Christian denominations don't recognize the Pope's authority. There are also some major differences in beliefs. Read some history books about the Protestant Reformation and people like Martin Luther.

Answer 3

"People" do lots of incorrect things, they are flawed, confused and sometimes outright evil and immoral. Only Christ offers them any form of retribution or salvation for their treachery.

Apparently people got a problem with unconditional love, so the Christian church is under constant attack from others who simply don't believe they can be loved. The Catholic church is the original Christian chruch, the oldest or the first, so it catches they most flack from Christianity's enemies and critics.

The blogbaba isn't much on forgiveness, and it truth doesn't like he whole cheek slapping analogy in general. I don't even like getting the first one slapped, let alone turning the other one. The whole aspect of religious preoccupation is a non-issue with me as well. You either serve God or you don't the rest is B.S..

The oldest military tactic know to man is divide and conquer, so I would assume the ("people trying to seperate the Catholic religion and the Christian religion") reference in your question is an attack on Christianity as a whole by anti-Chistians.

Answer 4

Unfortunately many protestant believe that the separation is Christian vs Catholic. This is not the case, Christianity is divided in to two major pieces Catholics and Protestants. Both of these are further subdivided into various groups.

Answer 5

Well it didn't stop with Luther and Zwingli did it? Once it became acceptible to break away from the church and style yourself as a "restorationist" movement, the hits just kept on coming, and now we have thousands and thousands of protestant splinter groups all affirming some sort of grievance or disagreement with the others, as well as the Catholics, so we went from having the Roman and Greek Churches splitting to having more churches than we have species of beetle, all claiming to be the ones that have it right.

The thing about a fraud is that since no one can prove anything about a mythology in the first place, everyone is free to reinterpret, misinterpret, mangle, distort and modify and base it all on an unverifiable claim of revelation. They can call each other heretics and cults endlessly, but one is as illegitimate or legitimate as the next since they're all false to begin with.

Answer 6

I know that Catholic means "universal" and all Christian religions stem from Catholicism. Catholic was the first Christian religion. When the Kings and Leaders didn't agree with something in the Catholic church, they altared it and created their own religions. Notice the "King James Version" of the bible. He rewrote it to suit the language, customs and needs of his time period as best he could without changing the Word.
When the settlers came to America hundreds of years ago, the Baptist religions formed from Catholcism. We now have Baptists and "Southern Baptists", which are essentialy the same, but differ within their own religion based on their geographical locations. Southern Baptists don't drink, dance...
To say someone is Catholic means they follow the original religion and rituals that were present when Christ walked the Earth. Or to the best of our knowledge.

Answer 7

Yes, Catholics are indeed Christian, but there are Catholic customs, traditions and beliefs that are exclusively Catholic (confession to a priest, transubstatiation, 7 sacraments, the prohibition of contraception, Immaculate Conception, Purgatory, etc).

Yes, there are much more similarities than differences, but personally, I am very proud of my catholic faith, so I refer to myself as a Catholic Christian.

Answer 8

catholics believe that you make it into heaven by the deeds that you do, christian believe that heaven is a gift from god, along with eternal life, these are totally different ideas and this is why they are seperated, you can't say that Christians aren't ever happy with anyhing because this is a GENERALIZATION, the same reason that catholics are looked at as different than christians, I have a friend that is catholic and she has almost the same beliefs as me, but there are some Catholics out there that are as you would call it"super catholics" these are all generalizations.

Answer 9

Christian does NOT refer to "protestants and lutherans". Christian refers to followers of Jesus Christ. Lutherans ARE protestants, and both Protestants and Catholics ARE Christiians. The level of ignorance on this subject is astonishing. If you believe that Jesus Christ was the son of God, and you profess to follow his teachings, you are a Christian, no matter WHAT denomination (Catholic, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Baptist, etc.) you call yourself.

Answer 10

Christianity is a faith.... catholic, lutheran, methodist, etc are all 'religions'

there are christians in all churches.. but there are non christians too.. people who go thru the motions, attending out of obligation instead of love of God, etc... who are just filling pews, and not worshipping the Lord...

you dont have to attend any 'religion' to be a Christian....

Answer 11

I don't know a single Catholic who has ever done this, and I went to a Catholic highschool. They always referred to themselves as Christians (not me, I'm not one). So I'm pretty sure this is a Protestant thing. Perhaps only those Protestants who are discriminating against Catholics, because I've also heard numerous Protestants refer to Catholics as Christians.