Why do the Fundementalists and Protestants berate the Catholic Church when it was the Catholics?

Question

who were slaughtered right and left in the Arena and elsewhere to pass the Christian Faith down to them now? Read the Early Church Fathers and you will see the Mass!!!

It is not the Church that gives power to the priests it is Jesus through the Apostolic succession

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Answer 1

They have thrown out the entire history of Christianity and rewritten it, to support their 20,000 + interpretations. That's why.

Answer 2

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the Catholic church that started, and condoned, the Inquisition? I'm thinking it was. They are the ones who would send priests into towns that were mainly not even Christian and tell them that if they didn't accept and say they believed in Christ, they would be tortured and killed. Hmm.. sounds like a great bunch of Christ-like followers to me!!

As far as Catholics being slaughtered in the arenas, it wasn't just Catholics, although that was the main belief at the time, it was ANYONE who believed in Christ, or who wouldn't denounce Christ. Was this any better then what the Catholic church did later? Maybe you should study a few other religions to find out how much they were persecuted before you pull the "why me?" card.

Answer 3

It is the concept of superiority the Catholic church gives to it's priest that causes the division. If all the churches were empty what power would the Catholic body hold? Would the priests still be the body or would the Christians out blessing and healing in the name of the Lord absent from the church be the ones truly doing God's deeds. It was not Catholics that died in the arena as those being persecuted in the early church observed mostly the judaic law which the catholic church condemns.

Answer 4

all the early christian writings attest to the truth of the catholic church, they all taught in one accord as the lord wanted. sadly now many have disected the body of christ to suit themselves, the so called "bible christians" are ignoring the word of god in this matter.

you mentioned the early church fathers, may i add to that and encourage people to attend catholic mass and read the book of revelations. in the mass you can see this very misunderstood book, unfold right before your eyes. and before some take this as negative please actually do the research and really be a "bible christian". once you do that if you are not already roman catholic then perhaps you should be.

Answer 5

Christians were slaughtered not Catholics.

Did you know that the Catholic Church joined forces with Hitler to kill Jews? What do your early church fathers have to say about this?

Answer 6

Catholics were persecuted by Rome for only about 5 years out of almost 300, and even then, not continuously or particularly serverely (compared to other persecutions).

The "arena" stuff is a bit over the top, especially compared to the murder and carnage sanctioned by the Catholic church.

Answer 7

It was the followers of Jesus Christ that were persecuted for their faith. It was the blood-bought, born-again, word-begotten, tongue-talking children of God that were persecuted. They did it willingly. read Foxes Book of Martyrs, it is a good read. Also read the 1st and 2nd chapters of the Book of Acts. This will describe how christianity was started and what signs the first believers had to seperate them from all of the others.

Answer 8

(Catholics weren't slaughtered, early followers of Christ were see Hebrews 11:35-40 see the historical arguements further down in this sermonette) Let’s begin back in the beginning Genesis, as you may recall the first chapter deals with the first six days of creation. Then we get to the second chapter. Let’s look at the first three verses. (read Genesis 2:1-3) Sanctified, hallowed, made holy, if God makes something holy what should that mean to us?
Skip ahead a few years, the Children of Israel had been in captivity in Egypt. They are in the desert, no food and they are murmuring again to Moses. Exodus Chapter sixteen. You can read the whole story on your own but for our purposes let’s start with verses four and five. (read) Skip down to verse 14. (read) What was God trying to do here? He was reminding the children of Israel which day was His Sabbath. We read that back in verse five. Now do you think after forty years of manna that they figured out what He wanted them to know?
Let’s go now to the New Testament and see what it says there. Luke chapter four and verse sixteen. (read) As His custom was, of course you say, after all, Jesus was Jewish. Time after time in Jesus ministry He clashes with the authorities of His day over how to keep the Sabbath. Not about which day it was, after all they already knew which day it was. How do we know which day it was? Let’s look at the end of Jesus life. Luke chapter 23 and verse fifty to 24 verse three. When does the whole Christian world celebrate Easter? What is “Good Friday”? So we do know which day is “the Sabbath”. You might say, but that was the Old Testament law. Well, did you throw out the other nine as well? Is it okay to have other gods, murder, commit adultery? No, of course not, then why just throw out one? You say the law was done away with at the cross. Which law? Three of the four gospels indicate that when Jesus died the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. Why was that? What was going on at that time? John 19:14 (read) The Passover. What was happening in the temple at Passover? First Corinthians five verse seven. Christ our Passover lamb has already been sacrificed! Do we sacrifice animals at Passover anymore? Only those who do not accept Christ as our sacrifice would do that. This is the law that was fulfilled when Jesus died for our sins, so now we don’t have to follow it. What do we do to remember Christ’s death? You hold communion, right? Right!
Why then are there so many that worship on another day? Well, someone had to have changed the law a little bit. Who was it? The disciples? Who? Let’s see if our Bibles tell us. I will give this twenty dollar bill to anyone who can find the verse in the Bible that tells me that either Jesus or His disciples changed the Sabbath. Let’s look at a few verses. (look up “First” in a concordance) John 20:19 (read) 1 Corinthians 16:2 This is the text most commonly used to signify a change took place so lets read it. What is this talking about? Collections, he didn’t want to waste time while he was visiting to take up collections. That’s it; there are no texts in the Bible that indicate that God wanted any other day to be made “holy”.
So, where do we get it from? For that answer we have to go to historical records other than the Bible. When did worship on another day become the rule? I searched the Web for the answer to that question. This is what I found. We must go back to the days when Constantine became the emperor of Rome. Just put his name in your search engine and you can find what I found. In the book, “Holy Blood, Holy Grail” on p.340 & 341 you will find these words. (read) There are more, it’s all documented in history.
(The Church further obtained the right to inherit property, and Constantine moreover placed Sunday under the protection of the State. It is true that the believers in Mithras also observed Sunday as well as Christmas. Consequently Constantine speaks not of the day of the Lord, but of the everlasting day of the sun. According to Eusebius, the heathen also were obliged on this day to go out into the open country and together raise their hands and repeat the prayer already mentioned, a prayer without any marked Christian character (Vita Const., IV, xx).) Constantine, emperor of Rome, changed the day that people worship on.

I would like to close with three texts Ezekiel 20:12 the Sabbath is a sign between God and his people. Isaiah 66:22 & 23 in heaven we will come to worship God from one new moon to another and from one Sabbath to another. And lastly, Matthew 5:17-19 Jesus, Himself, says that not a jot or tittle shall pass from the law and we should be teaching others to obey it too. Know what a tittle is? I have four versions of the Bible here. I like the way this one puts it. (Amplified) Anyone know another language, Spanish? Know those little marks they put above their n’s that little enyay thing. It’s a little curvy line. That’s what Jesus is talking about here. He says, not even the smallest little line of the law is getting changed. The law isn’t changed. We have Easter to commemorate Jesus resurrection. We have communion to celebrate His death. And we have the seventh day Sabbath to Remember our Creator.

Answer 9

Frankly I do not give a darn about Catholics. They are not important to me...You overrate yourself and your religion.

Exactly where in the Bible does Purgatory appear and when Jesus taught us to pray he did not tell us to ask Mary to pray for us now and at the hour of our death, did he....Exactly where did that come from?

Answer 10

I love the smell of christian infighting