What's with all the Catholic bashing?

Question

What have we done to you to deserve this, we don't bash your Religion or Faith, so why bash ours?

We believe in God and follow the Bible and yes we have some man made rules, thats our Faith

What the most important thing is we believe in God, we are fellow Christians so why bash us?

Answer 1

I have been noticing the same thing...not just on here, but everywhere.

A) I think there are NUMEROUS misconceptions when it comes to Catholics ranging from----us putting the Blessed Virgin Mary about Christ Jesus, our Lord to putting the Pope over the Holy Word, the Bible.

B) In the eyes of those who haven't accepted God's grace to truly have faith, some things may seem extreme....leading to a fear of Catholics.

I really think its up to us Catholics to teach and defend our faith, the best that we can. It is so sad that so many of these efforts are geared towards our own Christian brothers and sisters, who have so much negativity towards us without truly knowing what we are about. After all, there is more that we have in common than what separates us.

God Bless :)

Answer 2

Rrriiight... Catholics follow the Bible? If you believe in Christ you will follow His teachings and examples. Did Jesus ever send out armies during the Crusades to murder unbelievers?

What of the inquisitions when many true saints were tortured and murdered? What of the many priests today that molested children and it was covered up until the public outcry forced their hand in doing something about it?

Jesus blessed infants and commanded the accountable to be baptized by immersion. Catholics sprinkle infants and seem to believe that if they are not and die before they are sprinkled they go to hell.

The Bible teaches Jesus is the head of the church, for Catholics it is a man they call the Pope.

This board is a public debating board, expect criticism, especially when criticism is due. This is not "bashing" as it is public debate. Kind of like those old time soap box preaching debates they had in the 1800s.

I don't hate Catholics and have some relatives who I expect to see in heaven (assuming I make it there myself). However much of the Catholic history and past and present doctrines are downright false doctrines and worthy of rebuke.

1 Tim 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to bmarry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

Answer 3

I'd never bash a Catholic.

Answer 4

Uh, I dunno about the Catholic Bashing, but lets see....

A)For a period of at least 700 years, the Catholic Church did its best to prevent the bible from being translated and distributed to the common person.
(Tyndale and Wycliff being burned at the Stake comes to mind)

B)Having man made rules is NOT what God wants- God wants us to obey HIM, not man's rules for worship.

C)In the strictist sense, the Catholic Church is NOT Christian. It has added to the bible in the form of the Aprocipha, it has a church structure that is NOT biblical or scriptual.

D)The Catholics are arrogant enough to actually believe- and this is their doctorine!- that they've claimed ALL churchs to be under their control its just the other churches don't know it!

I'm sorry that immature christians are bashing you- I know it hurts your soul, I know its insulting and I'm sorry that its happening. However, now you know why- just an inkling- of how and why they feel the way they do.

Now, if you're in Ireland? The Protestants and the Catholics have fought tooth and nail for hundreds of years- its hard to say what is the truth, and what is now simply a war of revenge. I hope that someday the fighting ends, and peace will really happen

Answer 5

Don't feel singled out! Everyone gets bashed with serious focus on equal time on R&S.
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Answer 6

Perhaps, because, what goes on behind the scenes is just the usual patriarcho-fascist machinations of the fevered brains in the all too human Vatican hierarchy bent on ownership and control of as many innocents as possible in the interests of "power" and wealth? And, the same type plans unfolding in the "sanctuaries" of most other "religions" as well.

A lot of us are sick and tired of all the holy BS when the agendas are all too apparent to those with a triple digit !Q. Those same agendas which are also present in all the quasi dictatorships running the various countries of the planet, and in the offices of the multi national corporations? It's always the same for the psychopaths: money, control, "power". Pathetic.

We are not blind. The question is how to deal with this scum so as to best benefit those they victimize.

Answer 7

But the man made traditions are not man made they are from Jesus Himself. The Protestants deny sacred tradition thinking everything Jesus spoke and taught is contained in the pages of the bible.

Answer 8

I wondered what's up with that too. I could be wrong, but I don't think the people bashing you are Christians.

Answer 9

I was raised catholic. I'm don't intend to bash catholics. I just state the facts. I mean, come on, catholics do use guilt trips alot! I know this for certain.
Guilt is the one thing other christian denominations do not use. I know this also because I've tried every other denomination.....catholic, protestant, angelican, baptist, etc etc...finally settled on non-denominational......imagine that!! ;O)

Answer 10

You probably take it as a "bashing" because I was one time like you. Didn't know the real history of mama. Then I started learning many of it's dirty little secrets. I come to find out they were true. So I left.

The more that I read the Bible, the more I knew it was the right thing to do.

Without even thinking about it, I can show you at least a dozen reasons why I left the catholic church.

Mama supports Darwin...the Word of God doesn't

"Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God" (Matthew 22:29).

When the Sadducees, who were the theological, philosophical, and scientific elite of the day, came to Jesus with a trick question in an attempt to discredit Him, He responded with the stinging rebuke in our text. While His response dealt specifically with the fact of resurrection and the nature of the after-life, His two-fold evaluation of self-reliant scholars still fits today, particularly in regard to evolutionary speculations.

By the time Darwin had published his book, Origin of Species, attributing evolutionary progression to natural selection, he had probably become an atheist and so set about to ascribe creation to natural causes. He attributed to nature, abilities which clearly belong to God alone. He knew something of the Scriptures, but his memoirs show that he had little understanding of basic Biblical teaching. He felt that if there was a God, He had little power or had not been involved in the affairs of this earth. Most atheistic evolutionists today follow Darwin's intellectual footsteps.

But what of Christian intellectuals, theistic evolutionists, progressive creationists, or advocates of the framework hypothesis, who claim to know God but yet deny His awesome power in creation? They too reject the clear teaching of Scripture regarding creation, relegating God to the mundane task of overseeing the evolutionary process, reducing His power to something potentially accomplishable by man. Peter aptly describes this attitude when he calls it willful ignorance (II Peter 3:5).

It has been suggested by some that all human error can be traced to one or both of these categories: not knowing (and/or believing) the Scriptures and underestimating the power of God.

Even imacatholic2 has stated that the vatican does not believe in creation. If you don't believe me, email him.