Are Catholics really disliked?

Question

The reason I ask is I was married to a Southern Baptist and was told I was a heathen by his mother.

He and I tried our best to make it work, we even went to church twice on the weekend for our daughter so she could see both religions. His mother always would verbally attack me and my family. So the Marriage did not last.

I thought so too, about MIL, but then I started coming to this section and seen how much everyone went after others and their beliefs.

Answer 1

Pastor Billy says: you need to read the book
Anti-Catholicism in America: The Last Acceptable Prejudice: Books: Mark S. Massa by Mark S. Massa.

America was built on Anti-Catholic hatred and bigotry it's the skeleton in the closet

or try

The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice
by Philip Jenkins


Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Anti-Catholicism has a long history in America. And as Philip Jenkins argues in The New Anti-Catholicism, this virulent strain of hatred--once thought dead--is alive and well in our nation, but few people seem to notice, or care.
A statement that is seen as racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, or homophobic can haunt a speaker for years, writes Jenkins, but it is still possible to make hostile and vituperative public statements about Roman Catholicism without fear of serious repercussions. Jenkins shines a light on

anti-Catholic sentiment in American society and illuminates its causes, looking closely at gay and feminist anti-Catholicism, anti-Catholic rhetoric and imagery in the media, and the anti-Catholicism of the academic world. For newspapers and newsmagazines, for television news and in movies, for

major book publishers, the Catholic Church has come to provide a grossly stereotyped public villain. Catholic opinions, doctrines, and individual leaders are frequently the butt of harsh satire. Indeed, the notion that the church is a deadly enemy of women, the idea of Catholic misogyny, is commonly

accepted in the news media and in popular culture, says Jenkins. And the recent pedophile priest scandal, he shows, has revived many ancient anti-Catholic stereotypes.

It was said that with the election of John F. Kennedy, anti-Catholicism in America was dead. This provocative new book corrects that illusion, drawing attention to this important issue.


Dimple Girl just cracks me up, her mother and me both know she was already Christian as a Catholic and regret her rejection of Christ in his One Church.

Answer 2

I am a convert to Catholicism.

As a Protestant, I did not dislike Catholics, nor did I really know any one who did. I thought Catholics were kind of weird and I believed that they the worshiped idols and Mary etc. But I had many friends who were Catholic.

As a Catholic, I am not the recipient of some dislike but in general I find most people to be accepting...more concerned with their own lives than what I'm doing or thinking.

I'm sorry your MIL caused your marriage to suffer so. But I do think that trying to maintain two religions in a household can be stressful on a marriage and on the kids. How many kids want to go to two church services every weekend? I know I didn't!

Answer 3

It is not a good idea to have a mixed marriage. Fundamentalism and Catholicism don't mix very well; although, I know of some liberal Protestant and Catholic marriages that worked out well.

Fundamentalism is defined as “the practice of asserting the absolute truth of your own beliefs and practices to the deliberate exclusion of the possibility of truth in the beliefs and practices of others.” It is nothing but bigotry.

Fundamentalists have this "holier than thou" attitude, which gets in my nerves. They always presume to know more about my religion and what is good for me. Fundamentalists talk as if no case could be made for the Catholic faith.

Are they our modern day Pharisees?

How can I bring myself to even respect them? They resort to black propaganda and lies. Here are some examples of their lies and propaganda.

+ The Pope is the Anti-Christ (they have been saying this since Martin Luther made the accusation).

+ The Church is the Whore of Babylon in the book of Revelation

+ Catholics are not Christians

+ The Catholic Church is the Mother of all harlots.

+ Catholics worship Satan

+ The Catholic Church started Islam

Source: Chick Publications and posts on YA, R&SS

And to add insult to injury they justify these allegations by saying “we don't want you to go to hell,” which to me is a lame excuse for bashing Catholics. Do they really expect us to fall for that line? Catholics do not bash other religions because we know we belong to the true Church founded by Jesus Christ. Bashing Catholicism also shows that they are insecure about their own beliefs. If they are so sure about their beliefs why even bother? They have already told us a million times what they do not like about Catholicism.

To my fundamentalist brothers & sisters: Jesus said, “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. – Matthew 7, 1-2 (KJV)

Answer 4

i'm an atheist, and particularly a number of my friends are Christians, which comprise Catholics. They needless to say do no longer dislike me, and basically especially circumstances will we communicate the subject concerns of concept, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that it somewhat is at great length. With them, I unquestionably have under no circumstances detected any hatred of atheism, basically a confrontation. of direction, my friends are useful people who've long gone by way of my "friendship filter out", and that i've got encountered different Christians who won't merely conform to disagree, yet are particularly offended approximately it. the single common ingredient to those ones looks that they are theocrats - they're the selection of persons who experience that others could be made to persist with their ideals. they do unlike secularism and the liberty to no longer persist with their ideals, including atheists or those in different religions. in short, they're illiberal. my own feeling is they're usually no longer too extraordinary - they do exactly no longer think of by way of such subject concerns, and in line with danger lack the psychological acuity to accomplish that. luckily they seem to be a minority in my society, yet they do exist. So i think of this is the main distinction.

Answer 5

The Southern Baptists really hate us for some reason. They are kind of backwards.

It is a shame that it killed your marriage. I would have told you to move far far away from that woman.

Answer 6

Yeah, most people nowadays consider it acceptable to be prejudiced against Christians in general; and sadly, most Protestants consider it acceptable to be prejudiced against Catholics. So that makes Catholics one of the most discriminated-against groups in America. Sad.

Answer 7

yes, very much, especially by the judgmental Bible-fundamentalists. and no, it's not true that Catholics don't like everyone who isn't Catholic. people who say that Catholics hate the non-Catholics only project their own hatred to Catholics.

edit: now that you and your husband are separated, look up who's the original author of division, and you will realize what's of God.

Answer 8

Yep---they killed Jesus so I guess as much as things change they stay the same huh? Baptists are one of the worst. All of the fundies hate us, the evangelicals---yep we are the only religion that its O.K. to slander and run in the dirt---go figure huh. We are rapidly coming up to doing the full circle

Answer 9

I've always liked Catholics. I think they're good people. They certainly have a more honest claim to being truly "Christian" than that weird KFC variant.

Answer 10

Though their power is waning these days from the once political prowess they once sported they are still in favour of the world as politicians line up to greet and be greeted by the pope.
Vatican City still has a powerful political and religious role to play worldwide. They are not hated for the name sake of Jesus Christ but because their tradition political ideology is beginning to rub against the new political cultures that have sprouted since the end of WWII.
Though Catholics as slow to adopt they will do so if it means needing to continue holding on to what political influence they have. But it is not just Catholics it is also other protestant denominations.Most of Christendom is waning in power compared to the prestige they once enjoyed. People en masse are not finding the satisfaction in filling the spiritual void any more. People are more and more put off with religion and associate hardships brought on because of it. Healthful teachings of the Bible are replaced with traditions of men.