I'm a catholic do you have anything bad to say about my religion?

Question

Is there somthing you don't agree with?
Why?
Explain!

You can say what you want, but i will never change my mind on who my God is. He must of done some good. I am here after living a life of poverty. My parents are here after growing up through a war and a life filled with communism. My Granmother and grand grandmother still live and tell stories of horrid war and my granfather survived auchtwitz. Maybe my families prayers were answered by my catholic God. I won't stop boleiving just because you say dirty things of my boleifs and you almost spit on me. I've never exchanged a bad word about anyone. Not every catholic is a molester. & i boleive the Pope was a wounderful man. Afterall he did help stop communism wich he protested against and had a hudge influence on the calapse of the berlin wall.


Stories of a real immigrant of Poland with a russian father.

Answer 1

Religion is something that people love to argue about. If you are looking for somebody to bash the Catholic Church you have come to the right place. It does not matter what religion you are, their will always be people who will disagree with you. If you love Jesus Christ and you surrender you life to him, you are on the right track.
God bless
Your sister in Christ (not Catholic though)
Kait.

Answer 2

I was brought up in the Catholic religion but realized at an early age that I am atheist. That doesn't mean I turned against the faith. It means I don't happen to believe what I was taught.

I am currently dating a Catholic woman. I have on several occassions attended church with her, and the familiarity of it combined with the ritual and community was all very pleasant. I enjoy the Catholic church. But that doesn't mean there isn't still a lot wrong with it.

I offerred that as background only. Here is my actual point. I'll cite just one specific example here. Are you aware that there was no papacy for the first several centuries. There were a series of bishoprics all acting mostly independently. Then one of the Roman bishops declared himself pope over the whole church and named all of his predecessors back to Peter as retroactive titular heads of the church. These were men who never considered themselves to be pope. They were simply bishops of the Roman bishopric.

So the entire idea that the papacy was established by Jesus when he told Peter that he was the rock on which the church was built is basically specious.

I could go on. There's the councils of Nicea and Trent where the religion was basically designed by committee. There's the cherry picking of books to include in the biblical canon and the exclusion of others. There's the Albeginsian crusade. There's the selling of indulgences. But these are all things which helped me reject the validity of the faith without making me dislike the modern church. As I said at the beginning. I don't believe the church's teachings, but I do still enjoy going to church. I don't, but if you feel a spiritual connection to Christ when experiencing mass, that's all that matters.

Answer 3

Catholics have self assurance that God authored their faith and set forth a company that could desire to place across His message. they suspect the Pope to be the voice of God whilst speaking ex-cathedra on concerns of religion and morals. Catholics have self assurance that something this is performed this is undesirable is performed by ability of guys and as a result, very own offenses of guys at the instant are not authored by ability of God, and hense not area of the Catholic Church. Pedophilia exists everywhere, not basically in the Cahtolic church, nonetheless i've got self assurance the thought-approximately celebacy to be a incorrect coaching that finally leads to sexual frustration. as a techniques because of the fact the Abortion hospital bombings, i think of that maximum of those have been finished by ability of militant conservative christians, and the Catholic church does not intentionally incite violence for any objective. The above mentioned, i'm not a Catholic, yet a Pagan. I did come from a relatives that turn into tormented by ability of a pedophile priest, and that is a area of the reason i'm Pagan. the present Pope frightens me. nevertheless, i don't think of that the Catholic church in any way promotes violence at present. (The Malleus Maleficarum, the inquisition, the holy crusades have been confident shows of violence, yet not one in each of those component that could desire to take place on the instant) i don't enroll in Catholic (or Christian for that rely) ideals, yet easily have self assurance that maximum Catholics and maximum Christians are searching for peace. Their significant flaw is they accomplish that by a philosophy of exclusivity.

Answer 4

First off let me say that there are some good things about your religion. The number one thing is that Catholics believe who Jesus really is. Jesus is indeed God. They also believe in a literal heaven and a literal hell.
Somethings that concern me are the fact that Catholics pray to dead saints. Their worship of Mary is idolatry. They believe in Purgatory. They believe that at Communion that the bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Jesus.
I have read the Bible and a lot of what Catholics believe cannot be found there.

Answer 5

1. Pope is authoritative. False, God is final
2. Confessions to priests for forgiveness. False. God forgives
3. Purgatory. False. no such place
4. Tradition + Bible = Heaven. False. Salvation by faith thru grace.
5. Mary was sinless. Lie. She was conceived in the bloodline
6. Praying to saints. False. John 14:6
7. Statue of Mary. False. graven image Exodus 20
8. Hail Mary prayer - vain repetitions (Matthew 6) and Jesus is the way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6)

feel better knowing those eight in the Catholic doctrine are not Scriptural?

Answer 6

The sheer amount of violence in the name of Jesus is incredible. Your "religion of peace" has resulted in the deaths of millions upon millions. My fingers would fall off before I could type it all. A few examples among many...
-Crusades (1-4)
-Roman Inquisition
-World War II
-Protestant vs. Catholic wars in Europe
-The Spanish Armada
-Thirty Years War
-Countless deaths of Pacific Islanders and natives of the Caribbean and South America by missionaries
-Execution of brilliant scientific minds during the 15th and 16th centuries

Answer 7

I've read some of the answers, Kurina and I have to say that you asked for it. I'm an atheist. I'm not anti religious and I don't think people who believe in God are nuts or weird. I do have trouble with the system of knowledge that you follow.
Enjoy your religion as long as you do not approve of your religion forcing it's doctrines on others.
Have a lovely Sunday!

Answer 8

I don't understand it all. My mother-in-law and my son and daughter-in-law are Catholic. Because of the classes my son had to take when he became Catholic, he says he understands a lot more about the Bible then he did before. That is because he never really studied the Bible before. So it helped him. I know you worship the same God that we do. That's all that matters to me.

Answer 9

My biggest complaint ( other than the belief in god thing ) is that the church is hypocritical in it's views on abortion . : First of all , the church has sanctioned murder in wars , Inquisitions , and such . Second the church holds enormous amounts of wealth , much of it in land ( much of it decorative , unused , or used for the entertainment of it's priest and nuns ) . It will not convert this to cash to save the millions of people in need of food and medicine . They say this wealth needs to be kept by the chuch so the church will continue to be powerful in the future . Yet when people make the arguement that society will be better off in the future ( safer , less murder , less crime , etc.) if we allow unwanted fetuses to be eliminated , the church calls this unwarrented murder .

Answer 10

Not bad about YOUR religion, but there is this Catholic priest who is following me around and maybe I am too quick to judge, but I do resemble a little boy, and I am kind of getting uneasy about the whole thing. That is something I do not agree with!