If it wasen't for them the probably northern Europe would be pegaen
2007-06-12 15:35:11 · 15 answers · asked by Im tony 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Roman Catholic Church is the very Church which Christ founded while He was personally present on the earth. All other Christian churches are mere off-shoots of Catholicism; without the Catholic Church, there would be no Christianity at all, and the only non-Pagans would be the Jews. More than half the Christians in the world today are Roman Catholic. Christian denominations come and go (some in the span of one lifetime), but the Catholic Church goes on, protected and inspired by the Holy Spirit.
2007-06-12 15:43:53 · answer #1 · answered by Thucydides 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Not to mention - if not for the Catholic Church there wouldn't be any Bible. But that would be ok because there also wouldn't be any Christianity, so who would use the Bible?
Also, if not for the Catholic Church all of Europe would now be Islamic since the Crusades stopped the Mohammedans from overrunning Europe. And by extension, North and South America would also be Islamic since they would have been settled by Islamic Europeans.
2007-06-12 23:01:05 · answer #2 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually because of the Roman Catholic Church Northern Europe is already pagan and turning towards Islam rapidly.
The Roman Catholic Church has become since the days of Constantine, a mixture of Christianity and Paganism.
Pastor Art
2007-06-12 22:43:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
No offence but the Catholic church is a pagan institution. Many of their practices and most(practically all) holidays are pagan in origin if you look into them. When the Catholics came to power, all other questioning thought, Christian and otherwise, was suppressd. When Christianity was meant to spread peace, the Catholic church spread hatred and a dictatorship. We should not be in debt for the Dark ages!
2007-06-12 23:24:23 · answer #4 · answered by rowen77 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes we should and for more than just that. I am grateful that the Catholics are still anti-abortion. They still value and prize the family. They are still running charitiable organizations. I have had more Catholic prayers said for me than any other group (excluding Mormon) and I have appreciated and loved every one. (I have teased a very devout and wonderful Catholic lady that I prefer the Our Father to the Hail Holy Queen.)
Some of the women I have met with the greatest amount of faith in the whole world are Catholic women from Latin America. I would do well to believe as faithfully as they do!
I love my Catholic friends. I respect them. I am grateful for all the candles that they have lit for my family and the mass my devout grandmother had said for my husband's safety while in Iraq. I am grateful for the Catholics.
2007-06-12 22:51:38 · answer #5 · answered by Fotomama 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Grateful - yes. But not for 'converting' northern Europe - that exercise actually went badly, since the church got way too involved in European politics after the end of the Roman Empire.
I'm thankful for the many true believers and scholars who helped carry the truth from 100AD to the Reformation, and for those who still do.
Besides, I think much of Northern Europe is still pagan.
2007-06-12 22:42:05 · answer #6 · answered by Richard of Fort Bend 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
In the European West, Christianity has gradually transformed into humanism. For a long time and arduously, the God-Man diminished, and has been changed, narrowed, and finally reduced to a man: to the infallible man in Rome and the equally "infallible" man in London and Berlin. Thus did papism come into being, taking everything from Christ, along with Protestantism, which asks the least from Christ, and often nothing. Both in papism and in Protestantism, man has been put in the place of the God-Man, both as the highest value and as the highest criterion. A painful and sad correction of the God-Man's work and teaching has been accomplished. Steadily and stubbornly papism has tried to substitute the God-Man with man, until in the dogma about the infallibility of the pope—a man, the God-Man was once and for all replaced with ephemeral, "infallible" man; because with this dogma, the pope was decisively and clearly declared as something higher than not only man, but the holy Apostles, the holy Fathers, and the holy Ecumenical councils. With this kind of a departure from the God-Man, from the ecumenical Church as the God-Man organism, papism surpassed Luther, the founder of Protestantism. Thus, the first radical protest in the name of humanism against the God-Man Christ, and his God-Man organism—the Church—should be looked for in papism, not in Lutheranism. Papism is actually the first and the oldest Protestantism.
2007-06-12 22:41:34 · answer #7 · answered by Jacob Dahlen 3 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Actually, if you compare Roman Catholic doctrine and dogma to the early church writings, catholicism is paganism, so most of northern Europe is pagan.
2007-06-12 22:39:19 · answer #8 · answered by Don't Try This At Home 4 · 1⤊ 5⤋
yes they should be. and also if it wasn't for the catholic church, they wouldn't have their precious bible.
most retarded christians think it just appeared on the shelf one day in the book store. no, it was the catholics who put it together.
2007-06-12 22:39:48 · answer #9 · answered by blackroserequiem 2 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Your right--No Catholic church--no New Testament--simple as that!!
2007-06-12 22:39:17 · answer #10 · answered by huffyb 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋