why do "some" fundamentalists say ALL Catholics don't read the Bible? Have they met every single Catholic?

Question

my, they seem to act as if they are omni-present and omniscient. aren't those characteristics supposed to be in their God alone? hmmmm....

Answer 1

Their pastor told them so.
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Answer 2

This is an ironic situation. Catholics do read the Bible. They also LISTEN to the Sacred Scriptures. This is part of the great oral tradition that we received from Judaism.

When I was a Baptist the pastor would usually have 1 or 2 cherry picked passages. During the Mass Catholics have 4 passages from the Bible. We have an Old Testament reading, a New Testament reading, we sing a Psalm (as is only appropriate since they were written as songs), and a reading from the Gospels. We follow a path through the Sacred Scriptures each year. That means that we are all meditating on the same words of God all over the world.

In addition almost every word of the Mass is taken from the Bible.

Answer 3

Catholics may not read the bible during Mass, because we hear the Mass the way Jesus and the Apostles taught orally. But every Catholic I know and that is quite extensive reads and has always read the bible either at home or in a study group.

Catholics have never been told not to read the bible. Where do the fundies come up with this stuff?

Answer 4

OK, time for the truth. In the Mass that Catholics attend the entire Bible is taught over every three years. In a Protestant church only parts of the Bible are taught based on the whims of the pastor. Most Protestants spend a lifetime and never hear the entire Bible taught. Not even their condensed version of it used by Protestants. This is just one more reason why the fullness of truth is only found in Christ's Church.

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

Answer 5

"ALL Catholics don't read the Bible?"
*** That is a generalization, and generalizations are almost allways incorrect.

Few, very few catholics have an habit to read the Bible, most catholics only read pasages of the Bible during their ceremonies, cathecisms classes, or at Bible classes at their catholic schools. (At least that is true in my country).

Answer 6

Your "questions" are about as useful to humanity as your stupid avatar.

Have a nice day!

Answer 7

It makes them feel more superior to believe and say such a thing. You'll notice a lot of the time people who have a point to push will say 'all' or 'most' to support their argument when really they should be saying 'in my experience' or 'for as far as I know...'.

To say ALL is a sweeping generalisation and frankly it demonstrates the weakness of their argument.

Answer 8

really, I don't read the Bible? gosh, why do I know that the book of Genesis exist, or that there's the story about noah... gosh... did I just imagine it?

omg... I must have been imagining things! maybe I should call the all-knowing fundamentalists for their infallable knowledge and wisdom!

Answer 9

I am a Catholic, and I don't claim to read it every day or to be an expert on it, but I do read my Bible.

God bless,
Stanbo

Answer 10

perhaps it's more sweeping generalizations like your questions. I grew up Catholic. Never read the Bible until I was thrown out of the church and became a Protestant. All the Catholics I know, only a few are students of the Bible. Whereas MOST of the Protestants I know study the Bible daily.

Answer 11

They probably say it because a few decades ago, it was prohibitted by the catholic church to read the Bible. The reason they gave was that they could misinterpret it, and should only be read and explained by the priests. I guess some people don't know the catholic church has changed the rules, like it does with so many times. Weird that they'll say something is bad, and a few years later, it isn't. Did God change His mind??? That's why God hates r-e-l-i-g-i-o-n, a man-made thing.