2007-04-05 21:31:23 · 14 answers · asked by viv 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Catholics are Christian.
Happy Easter :-)
2007-04-05 21:34:45 · answer #1 · answered by chekeir 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
As Catholics ARE Christians, I'm assuming you meant Protestants versus Catholics.
In the end, both Protestants and Catholics worship the same god and believe the same thing - salvation through grace through Christ.
Protestants do not have a pope, usually do not have bishops or upper hierarchy outside of their own church. There are exceptions, such as the Lutheran or Presbyterian churches.
Catholics have a huge hierarchy, preach the same thing in every church in the world and put more emphasis on Mary and the Saints. Catholicism is more formal and more business-like than say a baptist church.
In the end though, all Christianity is a fairy tale. Don't fall for any of it.
2007-04-06 04:37:29 · answer #2 · answered by Michael B 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
All catholics are Christian, but most christians are not catholics. If you believe in Jesus, you can say that you are a christian. To be a catholic, you also need to obey that old man in Rome (in Vatican, actually). Everything he does/says is supposed to come from God.
The protestants don't need a Pope as the catholics (and orthodoxes) do.
As we commonly say : Catholics learnt to read 40 years ago, Protestants 400 years ago, but Jews 4000 years ago (because a few years ago, the Catholics didn't have the right to read the Bible on their own.)
2007-04-06 04:38:21 · answer #3 · answered by andree67_be 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Christianity=Pure Worship
Catholicism=Paganized Christianity
2007-04-06 04:43:08 · answer #4 · answered by Tomoyo K 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Roman Catholicism is a branch of Christianity. In fact, it's the largest denomination of Christianity.
2007-04-06 04:37:39 · answer #5 · answered by solarius 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The Catholic Church is the Mother of all Churches
2007-04-06 04:37:01 · answer #6 · answered by U-98 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
This question is asked many, many times. It is quite simple: Christians follow Christ's teachings; Catholics try to overturn Christ's teachings. Christians look to God and Christ; Catholics look to the pope, a man. Catholics claim they are Christians; Christ says, "I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity" (Luke 13:27).
2007-04-06 05:20:39 · answer #7 · answered by BC 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No difference.
However, some of the more ignorant fundies do not consider catholics to be "saved".
See the answer below me - - she meets the fundie requirement. David is even worse.
2007-04-06 04:42:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Catholics are chrisitans but all christians are not catholic.
2007-04-06 04:38:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
catholics have saints. they also believe that mary was the wife of God. They also think that doing good things will allow them to enter heaven. while we don't have saints(i think) and we don't think that Mary is God's wife. We know that God used her for Jesus to enter the sinful world. And we know that we can't get into heaven by just doin good things. because we can't enter alone. we need Jesus' help. We need to accept him as our savior and believe that God rose him from the dead.
2007-04-06 04:44:08 · answer #10 · answered by 지태영 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
well i think that one of the reasons is that christians don't adore or pray to saints as catholics do..
and catholics have a pope and christians dont...
2007-04-06 04:38:10 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋