i am catholic - and so is my best friend however we are having a fight because she is saying all other religions are silly and our religion is the best and other religions are all weird but ours is normal - so please help me name some things that are weird or different about our religion so i can prove her wrong! lol
but please be as respectful as possible
2007-10-13 15:33:21 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ive always thought not letting priest and nuns get married was really dumb and unnecessary. Why make people choose between working for hte church and having a family when God never said you couldnt do both
2007-10-13 15:38:50 · answer #1 · answered by h nitrogen 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There are no "weird" things in the Catholic Church. Different? Yes, but not wierd.
Your friend is right when she says the Catholic Church is "normal". A better way to have put that would have been, the "One, True Church."
However, your friend is wrong in thinking all the other religions and people are bad or wrong simply because they are not Catholic.
The Catholic Church believes that all Truth is God's Truth. So, whether a given Truth is taught in the Catholic Church or some other Church doesn't change the fact that it's still God's Truth. Put simply, rather than say other religions are wrong, it would be better to claim that they "aren't entirely accurate."
They have some things right, they have some things wrong. The Truths that these religions/denominations teach should be respected as the Truths they are.
2007-10-15 12:21:48 · answer #2 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, I'm going to apologize right up front for even mentioning this, but being a germaphobe, I have gone to several catholic weddings where communion was held, and it just GROSSES me out to watch 200 - 300 people walk down front and drink wine from the same cup. Granted, at the last wedding I attended, they wiped the cup with a napkin after each person took a sip, but they used the same napkin for all 300 people. Then, I got really grossed out watching the priest drink what was left in the cup (all that spit and back wash and germs, I get sick thinking about it). Then, the priest took that very same napkin used to wipe the cup after everyone was done getting a sip, to wipe the cup out and then put it away until the next time. How gross is that?
Sorry, give me my little single serving plastic communion cups any day over spreading germs like that. That is not sanitary at all, and you will never ever convince me to take communion like that.
2007-10-13 22:57:16 · answer #3 · answered by KrazyKakes 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm agnostic/jewish and there are a LOT of weird/sily things about christianity, no offense. In my experience, things that struck me have been:
1. The wine/bread at church
2. Claiming homosexuality is unnatural
3. Claiming Divorce leads to Hell
4. The Devil being a fallen angel
5. Pride being a sin
6, Envy being a sin
7. Lust being a sin
8. The whole idea of the holy ghost (took me so long to get)
9. Saying drugs/alcohol lead to Hell
10. Baptism in general
11. Calling other religions 'silly'
12. Actually believing in an all-powerful deity
13. Not believing in Evolution (thats a big one!)
14. Adam and Eve being all races, thats how we have different ones (at least this is what I was told)
15. The trying to convert other people thing..
16. Sin to commit suicide
17. No premarital sex?
18. No abortion
I'm sorry if anything on my list offended you. I was being entirely honest with my opinions. From your question, I'd wager you and your friend to be teenagers. I am 14 and some of these things are from accompanying a Lutheran friend to church, while others have been explained to me, while some, I have just noticed.
2007-10-13 22:44:55 · answer #4 · answered by cambrexia 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Love some definitions of respect here.
The only reason why Xity lasted 2000 years is because of the Holy Roman Church.
Those from a more Fundamentalist background seems to have forgotten this.
I suppose the difference between RC & Church of England is that Henry VIII simplified the sermon & translated it to (his) English (which has not been updated since). I'm speculating that most of the other sects that have split from RC (or have split from splits from RC etc) are simplified forms of RC.
It's not so much as justifying RC as being the best, it's more that it's a much older expression of the teachings of JC.
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2007-10-14 00:10:50 · answer #5 · answered by Rai A 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We have purgatory, incorruptible bodies, relics, and we bow before what appears to be a wafer of bread. We like to talk to saints, we have whole body worship, we don't believe our soul ever dies. Most of the people we hold as great role models have done some weird stuff. St. Anthony preached to fish, St. Padre Pio bi-located, St Francis took off all his clothes and offered them to the bishop and oh yeah....Jesus died but rose from the dead!
I think that's a good bunch to start with. :)
Good luck in the debate!
Edit: Ok I don't want to debate but many of the comments on here are whacked. If you aren't a faithful catholic don't answer. We still have indulgences...but don't sell them, there is more than enough evidence that the Catholic teaching on sexuality is sound natural law and yeah....we're all sinners.
2007-10-13 22:39:56 · answer #6 · answered by maggiecme 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
As a former Catholic, I can offer this: Catholics believe that the real body and real blood of Jesus (himself somehow part of his own father) is actually "transubstantiated" from bread and wine. And somehow this happens each and every time that a particular ritual (mass) takes place.
Is that not weird/different enough for you? Oh, it also happens to be at the very core of Catholic belief.
It's too weird for me. And it should be for anyone else, too.
2007-10-13 22:43:19 · answer #7 · answered by kwxilvr 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Catholic religion is by definition the standard or norm.
The name means 'that which is believed by all people'.
Orthodox is very similar in belief but different in practice.
Other (Protestant) religions define themselves from Catholic.
That is, they reject one or more Catholic teachings:
Authority of the Pope, Apostolic succession, ordained clergy,
veneration of Mary & Saints, belief & use of sacraments.
There is some truth in all religions, God does not abandon.
But the fulness of revelation abides in the Catholic church.
2007-10-13 22:44:00 · answer #8 · answered by Robert S 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Catholics have saints, which is weird, because its almost like having minor Gods, or angels. Catholics used to have, and in a limited way still have the ability to buy their salvation, or buy peroids where they can sin and its ok, known as indulgences, also Catholics believe that the pope is more important than th bible. None of these are bad, but they are definitely a little weird.
2007-10-13 22:40:49 · answer #9 · answered by scorch_22 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
sex with out protection,abortion is a no no. If you dont confess your sins you go to hell, masterbation is a no no. Catholic priests are getting caught with little boys(havnt heard of a rabbi doing this). Some thing about not eating either meat or pork on friday
2007-10-13 22:37:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋