Stupid Catholic rules? What do you think? No offense intended by this question!?

Question

What are some ridiculous rules that the Catholic Church has made that you personally don't think God would agreed with. They can be recently made and rules that were first created in the Holy Bible.

No offense intended by this question.

If you don't follow (break one) a rule made by the Catholic Church recently made is it considered a sin? And aren't sins what God can judge whether or not you can go to heaven or not.

If all I just said is true. Then who the hell is the Church to make rules they made and if you don't follow them you could jeopardize your chances of being accepted to heaven?

I personally strongly dislike all religion because I feel that its intentions were good. But when the people running the religion took advantage of the power they had and brain washed its followers (during the crusades!) and stole art and goods from ancient buildings in Rome. I could go on but I have run out of characters to work with.

My belief in God is still foggy.
I believe more in evolution. It makes more sense to me then a guy just poofing here on earth.

Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

You refer to Catholic rules as stupid and ridiculous, then request that no offense be taken. Brilliant!

Anyway, to answer your rude question, if there is a God, I'd imagine he'd take issue with priests being prohibited from marrying. What's the point in that?

Answer 2

So perhaps you can detail what are the rules that make it look stupid?

By the way, when did you become an avatar to be knowing what your god will agree or disagree

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Jim, No red meat on Fridays is not a rule, it is an observation. It is like praying before bedtime is not a rule, it is an observation.

Eating the Jesus cracker (as you put it) is an observation as well, not a rule.

You obviously do not know there are MARRIED catholic priest. The vow of celibacy is a commitment by these priests to be giving themselves fully to your god.

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For kait, if you want to spread these type of rumours, at least have the decency to put down the source,

Answer 3

Controversies in the Church
Matt. 13:24-30 - scandals have always existed in the Church, just as they have existed outside of the Church. This should not cause us to lose hope in the Church. God's mysterious plan requires the wheat and the weeds to be side by side in the Church until the end of time.

Matt. 13:47-50 - God's plan is that the Church (the kingdom of heaven) is a net which catches fish of every kind, good and bad. God revealed this to us so that we will not get discouraged by the sinfulness of the Church’s members.

Matt. 16:18 - no matter how sinful its members conduct themselves, Jesus promised that the gates of death will never prevail against the Church.

Matt. 23:2-3 - the Jewish people would have always understood the difference between a person's sinfulness and his teaching authority. We see that the sinfulness of the Pharisees does not minimize their teaching authority. They occupy the "cathedra" of Moses.

Matt. 26:70-72; Mark 14:68-70; Luke 22:57; John 18:25-27 - Peter denied Christ three times, yet he was chosen to be the leader of the Church, and taught and wrote infallibly.

Mark 14:45 - Judas was unfaithful by betraying Jesus. But his apostolic office was preserved and this did not weaken the Church.

Mark 14:50 - all of Jesus' apostles were unfaithful by abandoning Him in the garden of Gethsemane, yet they are the foundation of the Church.

John 20:24-25 - Thomas the apostle was unfaithful by refusing to believe in Jesus' resurrection, yet he taught infallibly in India.

Rom. 3:3-4 - unfaithful members do not nullify the faithfulness of God and the work of the Holy Spirit in the Church.

Eph. 5:25-27 - just as Jesus Christ has both a human and a divine nature, the Church, His Bride, is also both human and divine. It is the holy and spotless bride of Christ, with sinful human members.

1 Tim. 5:19 - Paul acknowledges Church elders might be unfaithful. The Church, not rebellion and schism, deals with these matters.

2 Tim. 2:13 - if we remain faithless, God remains faithful for He cannot deny Himself.

2 Tim. 2:20 - a great house has not only gold and silver, but also wood and earthenware, some for noble use, some for ignoble use.

Jer. 24:1-10 - God's plan includes both good and bad figs. The good figs will be rewarded, and the bad figs will be discarded.

1 Kings 6,7,8 - the Lord commands us to build elaborate places of worship. Some non-Catholics think that this is controversial and the money should be given to the poor, even though no organization does more for the poor of the world that the Catholic Church. We create our churches with beauty because Christ our King lives in the churches in the blessed Eucharist.

Matt. 26:8-9; Mark 14:4-5; John 12:5 - negative comments concerning the beauty of the Church are like the disciples complaining about the woman anointing Jesus' head with costly oil. Jesus desires that we honor Him with our best gifts, not for Him, but for us, so that we realize He is God and we are His creatures.

Matt. 26:10-11 - Jesus says we have both a duty to honor God and give to the poor - a balanced life of reverence and charity.

Answer 4

The Catholic Church does not dismiss the theory of evolution. The Church teaches that since all of existence comes from God, even the scientific methods we employ to understand our world comes from God since He is the one who gave us reason and logic along with faith.

I don’t know which rules you are referring to; your question seems to touch on Church authority.

It sounds like a lot of people think that the authority of the Church means the pope is some kind of dictator who can make whatever rule he wants and everyone has to obey it. What people need to understand is that the pope’s authority come from Jesus. This means that when he speaks on a matter of faith or morals, his teaching/decision must be inline with the Faith.

If the pope one day started saying that murder in the name of Christianity was okay, that would be a teaching outside of the Faith, which from what I know, and I would not follow it. See my point? However, the reason why we can trust the pope is because we have the assurance of the Holy Spirit that his teaching office of Pope is made pure and infallible BECAUSE of the Holy Spirit. This is how we know he is making the right decisions.

Hope this helps. God bless.

Answer 5

Did you have something specific in mind?
Is there a rule that affects you, that you don't understand?
God made the important rules, like 10 commandments.
Jesus explained that they all come down to 2 rules:
Love GOD, & love your neighbour, as yourself.
Every religion accepts that concept;-} did you know?
The Church makes rules of discipline for it's members;-{
celibacy for priests; marriage between man & woman.
Which one is a problem for you?

Answer 6

Kait,

A recitation of fanciful Christian history by those who hate Christ's Church has nothing to do with the beliefs of Catholics. I think what the questioner had in mind was actual criticisms instead of imagined ones in the creation of a straw man that Catholics would hate just as much , if not more than those critics of the Church.

I find it very sad that anyone would believe such nonsense, but even more sad that anyone calling themselves a Christian would, in effect, call Christ a liar when He said that the "gates of hell will not prevail against the Church" and that His promise was false when He said that the Church would endure until the parousia as the "bulwark and ground of the truth".

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

Answer 7

All religions rules in all religions are stupid.

By the way kait your an idiot if you learned about actual christian history you'd know that the veneration of saints, prayers for the dead, were all practiced by the early Christians pre 200ad. Unfortunately you copied and pasted from one of your re tarted fundie websites now you look stupid.

Answer 8

Pretty much every rule that's not in the Bible is a sin. Their rituals are similar to pagan practices, and stuff like baptism as a baby with sprinkled water totally goes against the Bible.

Answer 9

In the Nicene Creed, which is accepted by most Christians, the Christian Church is described as being "one, holy, catholic, and apostolic." These are known as the four marks of the Church. The notions of holiness and catholicity are not much in dispute. The mark of holiness may be defined as the possession, and dissemination of the sublime, holy, Christ-centered moral code of Christianity (as best exemplified by saints or otherwise great, godly figures). All parties - while disagreeing on many particulars - concur that this is a central function of the Church. Catholicity simply means universal. Here Protestants and Catholics disagree only on the nature of that Church which is to be considered universal and all-encompassing.

This brings us to the oneness and apostolicity of the Church, where the disagreements are great indeed. Most Protestants (especially evangelicals) see unity and oneness subsisting primarily or solely in the inner, invisible, spiritual unity of those who are in fact in Christ by virtue of being justified, or born again, or regenerated (with or without baptism, depending on denomination). For them, the church consists of the Spirit-filled, predestined elect, who will persevere and are saved, now and in eternity.

The Catholic Church has always proclaimed this unifying characteristic also, under the broad and rich concept of the Mystical Church (under which it acknowledges Protestantism), yet it doesn't pit the Mystical Church against the institutional, or visible Church, as most evangelicals do. For Catholics, then, the issue of oneness is substantially related to organizational and practical aspects of ecclesiology. Catholics believe that the Church is both organism and organization, not merely the former. The Mystical and visible "churches" are like two circles which largely intersect, but which are not synonymous. They exist together - somewhat paradoxically and with tension - until the "end of the age."
Catholics appeal to the hierarchical, or episcopal (that is, under the jurisdiction of bishops) nature of Church government. Furthermore, Catholics maintain that this form is divinely-instituted and biblical, therefore not optional or of secondary theological importance.

Finally, Catholics believe that bishops are - by the intention of Jesus Christ - the successors of the Apostles (the concept of apostolic succession). This is the methodology whereby the Catholic Church traces itself back historically in an unbroken succession to the Apostles and the early Church. Catholicism thus greatly emphasizes both historical and doctrinal continuity, whereas evangelical Protestants are more concerned with maintaining the passion and intense commitment and zeal of the Apostles and early Christians, and are less interested in governmental forms or doctrines which are now regarded as Catholic "distinctives." They tend to see clearly in the Bible and early Church those doctrines with which they agree, but overlook those which are more in accordance with Catholicism, such as the episcopacy, purgatory, and apostolicity.

Seek knowledge in Catholicism before posting ignorant questions.

Answer 10

What many souls do not realize is many of these rules are sent by God through the Holy Spirit. They are not made up as we go along. The deposit of faith is something received which is truth. Through prayer, penance, reflection and discernment we enter more deeply into that truth and we are better able to communicate that truth which is unchangeable. Why? because the truth is God