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2007-07-05 16:53:03 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If I had to venture a guess I would say Catholics only have a problem with the Christians who say Catholics are not Christians (which they are) and continually accuse Catholics of worshipping saints and Mary as false idols (which they don't).
Pastor Art- Whether you believe it or not, Catholics are not only Christians, they are the largest group of Christians. You can check any mainstream book on the history of religion or encyclopedia to verify this.
2007-07-05 17:01:08 · answer #1 · answered by Pangloss (Ancora Imparo) AFA 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Stand in downtown Dublin, Ireland and claim to be a Catholic and see what the Protestants do... or the other way around.
Funny thing about that is, timewise, Catholics could be considered as the oldest existing manifestation of Christianity. Every other form (which is basically all under the umbrella of Protestantism) traces its existance back no further than the Reformation that began with Martin Luther in the 1500s. Of course, with closer examination, all of them, Christian and Catholic, still more or less hold to doctrines that are not based on the Bible. So when you think about it, they're really all the same and therefore have no reason to hate each other.
2007-07-05 16:56:49 · answer #2 · answered by DwayneWayne 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There has always been an uneasy relationship between Christians Sects. The protestants aren't overly fond of Catholics, catholics aren't too warm to Eastern Orthodox, Southern Baptists despise the Mormons. Dislike might be a very appropriate word, although the various religions don't like to acknowledge such feelings.
2007-07-05 16:58:41 · answer #3 · answered by crazysnk18 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your qustion is erronius. Catholics are Christians.
While it hard to tell who came first, I would guess that the Egytian / Coptic church were the first christians. As it is claimed that is the way Mary mother of Jesus went on her way to Gaul / france. So that would be about 50ce.
Emporer Constintine declared his Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire, as Christian about 300ce, The council of Nicea compiled what the 1st Bible for the Greek Eastern Orthydox Church.
The Roman Catholics became Christian after that. I do not know if the two bibles differ.
When Martin Luther protested the Catholic Churches power about 1450, A new group of Christains were created, the Protestants, from the word Protest. Kings James edited the Roman Catholic bible and took out what he didn't like. This would be the beginging of the feud between the Protestants and the Catholics.
Thats the basic "off the top of my head" info...
Blessed be
Luinrandir
Wiccan High Priest.
2007-07-05 17:09:18 · answer #4 · answered by Luinrandir 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Catholics ARE Christians, so the question is meaningless.
edit: DwayneWayne, the conflict in Northern Ireland is not between the Catholics and the Protestants. It is between the Unionists (who happen to be mostly Protestant) and the Republicans (who happen to be mostly Catholic).
2007-07-05 16:57:07 · answer #5 · answered by Skooz 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Catholics are christians.
2007-07-05 16:58:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well said, SL.
I am a Pentecostal Christian and I do not hate Catholics. I do not consider all Catholics to be Christians, but just because someone says they're Assembly of God doesn't mean they're a Christian, either. I do, however, think there are fewer true Christians in the Catholicism than in other churches, but I don't have numbers to back that up; it's just opinion.
2007-07-05 17:11:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anticonformity2 1 · 3⤊ 4⤋
No, there are many genuine Christians in the catholic church BUT most don't realize that the Papal church is Antichrist.
They worship God to the best of their knowledge.
But there will come a time very soon that they will have to choose between the true worship of the Living God and worship of the Church system, POPE.
God is calling his people out of both the Papal and apostate Protestant Churches.
These Catholic and Protestant churches will align with the secular governments to force Sun-day observance in opposition to Gods 4th Commandment.
When these true followers of Jesus see this happening then they will leave their churches and align themselves with the Sabbath keeping Christians.
Even at the peril of their lives.
2007-07-05 17:07:09 · answer #8 · answered by shovelead 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Anytime people disagree about theology and doctrine it can appear as though they do not like each other...
In some cases... people don't like each other
As a rule, I do not think that is the case. My bfr is Catholic, and I am a Christian. I do not see him as "Catholic", or me as a "Christian". I see us both as believers, who love God... and try to live right. It is not about the labels in our relationship, it is about the love that we have for each other. We realize that we agree far more about most things...than disagree. So... that is a very good thing.
2007-07-05 17:02:09 · answer #9 · answered by debi_lockwood 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Some do, but they shouldn't.
They do disagree on just about everything.
So it might seem that way.
I had an hour long phone call today with a Roman Catholic Priest and no one threated to kill the other.
Pastor Art
PS: I don't believe that all Catholics are Christians. I don't believe that all Baptists or Lutherans are either.
2007-07-05 16:57:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋