why does it seem the fundamentalists hate the Catholics more than they hate the atheists?

Question

especially on Sunday?

Sherry, did you make an in-depth study of Catholic beliefs? be careful of what you spread, you might be spreading lies unknowinhly.

well, are you sure you just didn't misunderstand those verses? prohibiting the word "father" to be used sounds very petty, don't you think?

Answer 1

It is strange that fundamentalists do as they all spun off of the catholic church at one time or another whether they like to hear it or not.

Resentment, lack of understanding, lack of tolerance.

And, the king james version of the bible was written in 1625 where the catholic bible was canonized in 332. Yet the fundamentalists claim the catholic church changed the bible.

go figure.

Answer 2

I would assume you mean roman catholics because Catholic simply means the universal church. I'm an anglican and yet I'm catholic at the same time. Fundamentalists may have a problem with the RC's because most people who are fundamentalists tend to be very concrete (that's not a bad thing at all it's just a way of thinking). The RC's on the other hand tend to lend more interpretation based on tradition and have some dogma that takes a bit more of a faith leap. The fundamentalists also read the bible very literally sometimes (of course I'm generalizing....my brother is united pentacost so I only have him as a reference point) which can sometimes be interpreted differently with the RC's. Many of the fundamentalist denominations have also been persecuted durring their creation and so it has left a sour taste for some other churches.

Answer 3

Some might. Christian's are not perfect. They are capable of hatred. Any Christian who reads and has some knowledge of Catholic history knows there was corruption and violence. It is their past unfortunately. However no Christian is better than another. Catholics are people too. I am a Christian but I don't hate Catholics or the Catholic Church. I just disagree with them.

Answer 4

I'm a Catholic. I've had to deal with a lot of anti-Catholic nonsense during my life. Well, it wasn't coming from atheists. It was coming from other Christians, mostly of the hardline Fundamentalist variety. I had to endure two serious anti-Catholic incidents that really traumatized me as a kid, and they were brought about by Christians. Not by atheists, not by Pagans, not by Muslims, but by other people who claim to believe in Christ. There have been various waves of anti-Catholic sentiment, both in Europe and the U.S., and we're riding another wave. People actually believe the stuff they read in Chick tracts and other anti-Catholic sources, many of which have been disproven, and then pass it around as if it were Gospel truth. But hey, these people don't like atheists, either, so maybe that's something that I, as a Catholic, have in common with atheists. We both have to deal with a lot of untruths being spread around about us.

Answer 5

1 Corinthians 5:9-13 says:

9 I wrote to you in my epistle pnot to 6keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go qout of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company rwith anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner— snot even to eat with such a person.
12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore t“put away from yourselves the evil person.”

Answer 6

They feel that Catholics are replace true religion with false religion. They think that this is worse than no religion at all.

Answer 7

Study the New Testament and tell me, why did Jesus give the priests so much crap and yet hang out with the biggest of sinners?

Answer 8

be happy they take the heat off the atheists, especially on Sunday.

Answer 9

I hate neither group.

Why should I?

Answer 10

Atheists do not believe in any god at all, they dont take scripture and make it to their liking.

Catholics take the scriptures and twist it and add to it and take away from it to fit the dogma the pope wants you to live out.

The people of the catholic religion are nice people, I dont hate them. it is the dogma they follow. A false doctrine is more dangerous than no doctrine at all. It snares people unaware.

I am sure there are some nice atheists out there, too. Their religious beliefs do not make people bad in and of itself as far as human standards are concerned.

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In response to your added comment:

They do call earthly men their father. The bible says not to do that.

Matthew 23:9
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.


They venerate Mary to a place that I am sure she does not appreciate. She is not a mediator and she is not god. She is blessed among women, as she should be. That is as far as it should go. Some catholics pray to her.

None of the previous saints are mediators, but catholics pray to them.

Why do you do the hail Mary's? Where in the bible do you find that one?

Catholics claim Peter as their first pope or first leader using this scripture:
Matthew 16: 15He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

16And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

17And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

18And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

19And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

20Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.


The rock is what Jesus said. Peter may be translated as rock, and he may have been given the keys, but the statement Peter made is the rock that Jesus will build His church on. Jesus has been referred to as the cornerstone, I think even the exact word rock.

1 Corinthians 10:4
And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.