If you don't like catholic people: why?

Question

what are the reasons

Answer 1

I love catholic people. I disagree with their doctrine. I don't get offended when catholics don't like the protestant faith. I am still a protestant. I don't know why we can't disagree agreeably.

Answer 2

My husband's family is Catholic. I have nothing whatsoever against Catholic people except when they try to "save" me.
However, I've never been able to understand why a woman would want to be a devout Catholic. I understand wanting to have a faith and needing a higher power and being close to God. What I don't understand is why a woman would want to practice and follow a faith that teaches it's followers that women are inherently inferior to men.

I also have problems with the whole "confession" thing. You can be as evil and as sinful as you want all week long, just so long as you go to confession on Sunday, all is well with the world and your salvation is assured.

Answer 3

I'd really prefer that people were honest. If they hate the Church, as some here have said, why do they feel they need to qualify that by saying oh, but they "like" us? I beg to differ. What is this, an odd variant of "hate the sin, love the sinner?" (A trite little phrase that I will tell you, right up front, I absolutely loathe -- despite the grain of truth it holds -- as it has become so overused as to be meaningless.)

Folks, you can't have it both ways. If I say within your hearing that I hate and despise something that's very near and dear to you, then notice you standing there and say "no offense" or "I didn't mean YOU", would you say "hey, that's okay" or would you take it personally? That's the problem. Faith IS personal, as personal as it gets. So when you attack my Church, you attack me. Worse: When you add a veneer of pity to it for the sake of what you see as my poor deluded doomed lost soul, you add condescension on top of insult.

Yes, I take it personally. So would you. And just as you can't stand the Church, you wouldn't chose to spend a whole lot of time with Catholics, either. The only way you would actually like me is if I bailed on the Church and joined yours. A little honesty about this among the anti-Catholic crowd (who are also anti-quite a lot of others) would be refreshing.

Answer 4

I have no problem with the people. I do have many, many questions about the doctrine. Like why would you pray to Mary~she was a great woman but JUST a woman. Why confession~the Bible says the curtain was torn and we had the Comforter (Holy Spirit). I think the Pope takes the place of a personal relationship with Christ.

I agree with most of your beliefs but those are some that I question. I don't think that means your are not a Christian just that I don't understand this part of the doctrine.

Answer 5

Anyone who answers that they don't like Catholic people are either lying or just plain nuts.

It's the organization that I hate. They teach people to trust in Mary and the saints, instead of trusting God like Christians are supposed to.

You probably pray to God and don't do all those things, but I have met way too many Catholics who have no clue that Jesus Christ saves them and that trusting in Him is following His commandments. Instead, they think that living by the Ten Commandments saves them.

As if!

We are sinners, and God's criteria is trusting Him - believing what He says, and that beings you grace through Christ. It does no good trying to think of ourselves as perfect, good, or less of a sinner. It also doesn't help to put our trust in saints or Mary.

Salvation is by the grace of God and gained through the propitiation of Jesus Christ. No Pope, no rosary, no eating of flesh will do it for you. It's about trusting God.

That's why I hate the organization that teaches people to wander away from God with their traditions.

I do not hate Catholics, I actually have some that I know that I love very, very much.

Answer 6

I have no problem with them.

But one of the reasons why I think people dislike them is because it all started way back then when one of the English kings (I beleive James...) created a whole new ideology of religion (Puritans) Hence, Catholic and Puritan conflicts have occured between British, French, Spain, and perhaps more.

Answer 7

I left the military to become a catholic monk. While at the monastery I climbed a mountain to pray to see if God wanted me to be a monk, At the top of that mountain I experienced God's presence and began to speak in tongues.

When I discovered that the catholic church believes in tongues and the baptism of the Holy Spirit as a legitimate but separate work of God, but kept this truth silent, I knew that they were not on God's side in trying to get people to have the truth.

This gets many protestants angry at Rome. While it may be Godly to be angry at this sin, scripture says be angry and sin not. Therefore any protestant who hates Rome is in sin.

Does 2 sins make a right? No it does not.

Fortunately there are many protestants who understand Rome's sin, without being filled with hate, and are battling this properly.

Perhaps we should focus on this instead.

Answer 8

I plan on marrying a catholic, but her religion will never be my own. Catholics in general are fine, but there are too many out there that do awful things in the name of their religion. That's what I don't like.

Answer 9

I have nothing at all against Catholic people, it's not the people I have a problem with is the Dogma

Answer 10

I LOVE Catholic People

it is the religion and that awful Pope that I dont like