Ask yourself: why do I hate the Catholic Church? Who taught me what I think I know about the Catholic Church?

Question

Is what I was taught true? Have I looked at what the Catholic Church has to say about itself, using official resources such as the Catechism of the Catholic Church and papal encyclicals? Could my opinion of the Catholic Church possibly be based on bias, bigotry, bad history, propaganda from the secular media, or the bad priests who get publicity (i.e., the sick, and sickening, pedophile priests or those certain heretical modernist priests the secular media love to give press to)? Is it fair to judge doctrine by such things? Is any group with human beings in it free from sin and scandal? If I am wrong about the Catholic Church, what does that mean?

Answer 1

First, I think you have to separate the parishioners from the Church. There are a lot of good people in the Catholic Church. But the Church itself is more a cult than a religion. Rather than basing their beliefs solely upon the Bible, the Word of God, they have elevated the Apocraha and Church tradition to a point that is equal to or surpassing the Bible.

Take your Catholic Catachism and read it along side the Bible, and you will see many contradictions. Basic things you are taught as kids, such as saying the Hail Mary. The Bible says you pray only to God. The fact that the Catholic Church says that Mary was born without Original Sin........the Bible says that all have sinned. All would include Mary.

In the Catholic Church, salvation is based on works. The Bible says you are saved by Grace, and not of works.

The Catholic Church teaches that if you die with vinal sins, you go to Purgatory to be cleansed. The Bible says that when a Christian dies, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. There is no hint anywhere in the Bible of Pugatory.

The Catholic Church changed the Ten Commandments. They removed the Second Commandment which says you are to make no graven images(such as statues of saints or Mary) and bow down to those images. They then took the last commandment, about coveting your neighbors goods or wife, and made two commandments out of it, so they would still have ten.

Catholics are good people, but the teachings of the Catholic Church are leading them to Hell.

Answer 2

Okay, I'll ask myself those questions:

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I do not hate the Catholic Church.


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Jesus.


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Absolutely yes.


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Not all of them, but I am working on it. There is, after all, 2000 years of Church writings to go through.


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If one's opinion of the Church itself is, in any way, negative, then it is likely that one's opinion is biased, bigotted, historically inaccurate, propaganda-based, influenced by secularism, bad priests, heretical confusion, etc - or any combination thereof.


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Absolutely not. Men are fallible, so it is disingenuous to judge an infallible Church's Doctrine based on the actions of fallen mankind.


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None whatsoever.


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If your opinion of the Catholic Church is based on bias, bigotry, bad history, propaganda from the secular media, or the bad priests who get publicity (i.e., the sick, and sickening, pedophile priests or those certain heretical modernist priests the secular media love to give press to), it means you're mislead.

Answer 3

Pastor Billy says: if I had more time today I'd write something longer I will say this, there are huge misconceptions about Catholicism by the majority of Protestants and especially by pseudo-Protestant sects like the JWs and SDA. It is my opinion that Teri is a Seventh Day Adventist member and they are more than not always foaming at the mouth so do not take her deliberate slanders to heart pray for her as she is unaware of the following:

theSDA sect has a mere 150 year old history,

an Adventist member C T Russell started the Jehovah Witness organization

and the original founders of the Adventist movement were proven false prophets when they attempted to predict the second coming of Christ and were proven wrong.

Pray for your enemies!

Oh one last thing when you come to realize you'll be persecuted from all directions for being a Catholic you know you are in the right place, right Church, right faith.

Someone mentioned they are now a born again Christian poor fellow as he didn't know he was already a born again Christian and born again the correct way as a Catholic.
I always remind Evangelicals Catholics are born again the bible way why aren't Evangelicals?

Answer 4

I believe all these things about saying no to homosexuality and no to marriage between same sex couples, no to birth control, no sex before marriage, no to abortion and full acceptance of the historic creeds of the church. However I am not a Catholic in a formal sense as I was raised in the Anglo Catholic Church and so cannot receive the bread or the wine at mass - I just sit at the back or to the side near the wall. So even if you did believe everything it doesn't always mean you will be accepted

Answer 5

Less than 1% of the priest have had accusation of pediophelia brought against them. Actually the John Jay School of Criminal Justice did a study and found most of the abuse cases happened during the 70s and 80s. The Church started opening itself up to a lot of new thinking, some of it wasn't very good. One was situation ethics. Pope John Parul II clamped down on that. It taught that right or wrong was governed by the situation you found yourself in. My personal opinion is that teachings like that in seminaries combined with the fact that they no longer tried to screen out men with homosexual orientation might have been part of the problem. Now I am not passing judgement on whether ordaining men with homosexual orientation is wrong if they take a vow of celibacy. That is for higher authority.
I think the Church has begun to get a hold on itself.
Watch EWTN, if you don't.

Answer 6

Here we go again with all her HATE & jealousy , that little creep by the name of Teri who I just reported for abuse.... First time ever reporting anyone but she appears everywhere with her stupidity and tend to hurt the brains of those who have learnt the joys and powers of using it... as they trained it with "accurate knowledge" and not cut and paste crap...

Teri You need to lay off the drugs and try living in the real world for awhile. If you truly want to know about God, then quit thinking you already know all you need to know and dismiss the possibility there is a God. Find a good Christian church (I would suggest Catholic Church ) and study what they believe. Then and only then could you make an informed decision about what true FAITH is all about. "The truth will set you free "

Answer 7

There are a few things I'd like to point out.

1. No one likes using the word "hate" when in reference to themselves. They won't admit to hating anything because to hate something leaves you open for being called closeminded and prejudice. However, they love using hate when in reference to what others feel for them. No one hates a certain group, but said group hates them. This is commen in all groups.

2. Asking these questions is a good idea with all religions and beliefs. Let's face it, as humans, we tend to hate what we don't know, and that was why this site was first created: to help us learn about other beliefs.

3. And don't bring up the past in reasons why you don't like something. Nothing ticks me off faster then being told that I'm responsible for the Inquisition and Crusades because I'm Catholic. That I'm evil because of these things that I not only had no control over, but wasn't even born at the time. Let me pick on Atheists for a moment. The doctor that killed my Grandma C was an Atheist. Is it fair of me to blame all Atheists for her death? No one else was there at the time, they had no control over what this doctor did. It's the same thing, in my mind. It isn't fair if I blame innocent people for the actions of another, just as it isn't fair to blame Catholics for the actions of the way past. That is hate.

Answer 8

Any one who 'hate' an organization has some reason. You are right. These are valid questions for those who 'hates' the catholic church to consider. All churches and organizations are made up of individuals that are equally loved by the creator, and all humans should be treated with the love and respect that God would have us as humans to display to each other.Where there is truth it should be lifted up and where there is error it should be pointed out and shun before precious soul get hurt. Good points and questions.

Answer 9

Wonderful question! Beautiful question! THAT'S getting to the nitty-gritty!

Okay... had to vent a little, lol.

Yes, how many have actually done some real homework before hating the Church? So much anti-Catholic bias out there - it gets frustrating. But, that's why we're here - to fight the good fight.

God bless.

Answer 10

I do not hate the Catholic Church. I went to Catholic school for 7 years and learned some important doctrines that have stayed with me. I am now a born again Christian and I thank God for the Catholic Church.