Why do the Protestants hate Catholics?

Question

I was reading R.Crusoe and he didn't wanna go back to Brazil coz he was reluctant to convert ino a catholic. Is there any reason Catholic are detested so much by the Protestants?

Answer 1

We don't HATE them, we just don't agree with them.

Answer 2

Catholic here.

The only answer I could give is that there are as many reasons as there are protestants.

To hopefully try and arrive at a better understanding, I try to get to the roots of the issue. Protestantism is very simply a protest against the authority of the Catholic Church. As far as the different events that triggered it, I not well versed. Normally, being a former protestant, myself, I look at history. The Catholic Church IS the original Church founded by Christ. She is over 2,000 years old. The Protestants didn't show up until a thousand and a half years later - 1500. If someone is going to try to argue with me about who the true Church is, I point them to history, and it all adds up.

God bless.

Answer 3

I dont think you can call it hate anymore. But the reason they did hate each other at one time was because of the so called protestant reformation which occured at the turn of the 16th century and caused persecution of Catholics and Protestants one against the other. Lives were lost on both sides so hate evolved and im pretty sure Satan was celebrating the whole time. But John Paul II taught that we must love each other no matter how we believe in God so he tried ,and somewhat succeded ,in closing the great rift between Catholics and their Protestant brothers. We are all baptized in the same Father , Son and, Holy Spirit so we all become one with them,he said. Mother Teresa of Calcuatta thought along the same lines, "we are all children of God ,and Christ died for us all " A muslim must be good muslim, a hindu must be a good hindu, and a christian must be a good christian.

Answer 4

Protestants do not hate Catholics. Period. If they do then they are not of God.

However, having been raised Catholic, then at 21 attended a Bible Study and really got into God's Word, I accepted Christ as my True and ONLY Way to heaven.
Scouring and devouring the Word, I found numerous passages that contradict what I as raised to believe.

Hmm, what then, what to do???? I had to come to the firm foundation that I would believe God's Word ONLY, for ALL men are fallible!

About ten years later, I began to ask God for the working knowledge to speak to my Catholic Friends and relatives. Something strange started to happen. People I hardly knew would walk up and hand me books and literature on the history and secret histories of Catholicism. They would simply say, "Hey I was cleaning house and found this or I need to get rid of some books do you want them?"

What I found was more than I could have ever imagined took place. Much of it is not for people with weak stomachs.

If you read only two of those I've read, I would recommend these...

"30 Years in the Church of Rome" by Father Chiniquiy
" Smokescreens" by Jack Chick

The knowledge will astound you and then you must take it to God. Give your feelings to Him and let Him guide you.

You can also read ...
"Babylon Religion" blends the exhaustive research of David Daniels with the detailed cartoons of Jack Chick.

I hope these help you understand that most have not read these informatives and only hear "bits and pieces" of the secret history and then make wild assumptions.

To read these will show you the truth and they SHOULD fill your heart with a compassion for other Catholics.

Answer 5

First, not all Protestants hate catholics..
Secondly, the ones who hate the Catholicism do so because their narrow minds can´t accept the fact that the only church founded by Christ is the Catholic Church - and that really hurts them, and close their eyes to that reality. Why don´t they just convert to the God they´re always talking about and stop worshipping a fiction created by themselves that call "Jesus" and has nothing to do with the true Jesus who founded the Church upon the rock of Peter?

Answer 6

not all protestants hate catholics. however, yeah a lot of other religions DO hate them.
The ones that do hate Catholics grow up hearing misconceptions about them, and things that are completely untrue. They believe the craziest things about us, and never even look into whether there is any truth behind what they are saying.
Ive heard that we worship statues, that we dont believe that Jesus is the Savior, that the pope is the anti-christ, that we worship Mary and the saints...etc etc...
There are lots of anti catholic websites you can look at for more information on what they believe. And if you start to believe it too..there are even more catholic websites that can refute what they say. lol. :)

Answer 7

I was raised Protestant and converted to Islam almost 3 years ago. I have to say growing up in a highly populated Catholic and Protestant city (Glasgow) there was never any Protestant who hated Catholics or Catholics hating Protestants until football was involved that is the only time i saw any tension. Living very near to Ibrox football stadium you did not really walk the streets when Rangers and Celtic played. Other than that it was not an issue at all. I had plenty of catholic neighbor and plenty of catholic friends.

Protestants are no more guilty of hating catholics than catholics are of hating Protestants. No one ever forced anyone into converting to any other religion.

Answer 8

I don't hate Catholics. I do hate what has long been the Catholic stance that it alone is the one true church, thereby excluding Protestants. I don't know whether they still maintain such a stance, but there still seems to be echoes of it that remain if they don't.

Answer 9

I don't think it's all Protestants, but more those of the fundamentalist born again variety. But then, they appear to dislike anyone who doesn't conform to their beliefs.


Archbishop Fulton Sheen once said "There are not one hundred people on the United States who hate the Catholic Church, but there are thousands who hate what they think the Catholic Church is."

Answer 10

I was brought up protestant and had catholic friends too. I never hated anyone for being catholic. As I got older I wondered why people would ever be catholic though. I wouldn't say I hate catholicism, but I'm very cautious around it. Why? Protestants are the people who decided that enough is enough. One the printing press was out and able to make copies of books for the masses, then people could read the Bible themselves and get out of it things other than what some nasty priests told them Christianity was all about. I think of catholicism as the old unquestioned Christianity, and I am sort of perplexed as to why people wouldn't have joined in the natural Reformation that occured once people could read the Bible on their own.

Some catholic churches have prayers and whatnot in Latin. So, it's more about form than it is about the message of Christ. I think that in catholicism people are more interested in preserving forms/traditions/rituals than the message of the living Christ.

It doesn't help much when you think of what countries in the world are catholic, and they are inherently more violent and backwards than other Western nations (except the U.S. of course).

Answer 11

no real christian should hate any human being wither religious or nonreligious. we are all in need of the grace of God. what we should hate is sin, sinning or not being on the side of Satan, his demons or his prophets. therefore, what Christians should all detest is converting to any religion that embrace any type of sin. "many false prophets will appear and deceive many people." "Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world." "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." If you religion or teacher embrace any type of sin, test them and get out now! the end time is very close. 05/05/07