Those of you who believe the Catholic Church is wrong?

Question

Have you ever attended a Mass? Read the Catechism? Done any study on what the Church ACTUALLY teaches rather than just listen to your anti-Catholic friends?

mintman...that's exactly what I'm talking about. The Church does NOT teach intolerance, it teaches the exact opposite. We are supposed to respect other Faiths for what they have to offer. It just seems that the same respect is not given to us by some of those same Faiths.

Answer 1

I have a ton of Catholic family and I love them very much...but I don't understand what went wrong during the Dark Ages? I need to learn more, I think.

Answer 2

As salaamu 'alaikym.

Insha'Allah, I was rasiesd as a Roman Catholic, spent nearly 13 years associated with a religious order and spent six years in that order studying for the priesthood.

I read the Torah and Judaic writings in Hebrew, studied the New Testament in Greek, Church history in Latin, English, French and Italian, studied canon law, etc., etc., etc.

I was a Catholic both before and after the Second Vatican Council, from John XXIII to John Paul II.

I think I can honestly say that I do have some knowledge as to what the church teaches.

I am familair with how the New Testament was compiled and codified (which you might read as altered, editted and corrupted), with the manner in which the dogmatic truths of the trinity and the divinity of the prophet Isa/Jesus ('alaihi salaam) came about, how the Council of Nicea remade the church in the image and likeness of Rome, with the Crusades and over two hundred years of bloodshed to take back the holy land, with the Christianization of Europe and the world during the European colonization that destroyed countless cultures and peoples, with the wars between the Catholics and the Protestants as the Christains divided and counquered themselves, with the rise of the evngelicals and American Christain sects, etc., etc., etc.

Insha'Allah, each day and everytime that I recall such I give thanks and praise to Allah, Subhanna wa Ta'ala, for having guided myself and my daughter to Islam! Alhumdulillah!

My personal advice to anyone who wants to remain a Catholic, or a Protestant, don't look too deeply into how such developed historically.

Ma'a salaam

Answer 3

A) More growth to do;Yes.
B)attended mass/ Yes.
C) Read C; No.
D) Yes; I listen to them (Catholic teachers) during RCIA.

The sect I grew up in had 7 deviations from God's word; the Catholic church 3.5 deviations to my present knowledge.

Answer 4

I went to a Catholic Church with a friend once and they denied me Communion. Because I wasn't Catholic. But I had already given my life to Christ, so, that's one reason I don't agree with some of the things they do...

But I respect your opinion just like you should respect everyone else's.

Answer 5

Yes. I have done that. I was told that everyone who is different is wrong and evil, and that you have to believe everything the bible says in order to consider yourself a good person. When I was a christian, I was very influenced by the church. I hated every non-christian. I accepted blind and uneducated faith as the best proof of all. I even covered my school supplies with hateful propaganda that insulted alleged 'sinners,' all because my church taught me to. I'm glad those days are over.

Answer 6

I'm a electric pagan and i hate the fact that some think I'm the devil and not to be trusted. i don't hate on catholics i hate on any1 that wants to convert ppl and hate some1 that is different and not of their own religion when they no nothing about them. I'm anti racist. and I'll give u the same respect that u give to others..nice mean or in between it depends on u(OH that rhymed!!!).
my grandmother was catholic. now shes a witch =D
she knows all the religions of the world,loves ppl and history,doesn't judge ppl and is a great person. it doesn't matter what u r..just learn to respect..then i will respect u.
and don't u remember that u hung ppl that were different. most were not evil at ALL. think about that.

Answer 7

Yes, which is why Catholics aren't Christians. Catholics believe you have to earn heaven, by believing in Jesus, AND doing good works. totally unbiblical -. Also, they teach that the Vatican has more authority than The Bible, and the Pope is the one God speaks through. Can you say Idol worship? God's Word is the most supreme authority, not the Vatican. And there isn't one person higher than another, God speaks through His Word, and anyone who speaks His Word. They also pray to Mary and "the saints" We should only pray to God. Mary can't hear you; and every person who follows is a saint. Read the letters from Paul. Catholic Vatican teaches a completely different Gospel than that of Jesus and the Bible.

Answer 8

Yes. I was raised catholic, went to hundreds of masses (one every week since I was like 5) and still found myself an atheist by age 16. I used to sit in mass and listen to all the inconsistencies, logical failures, and contradictions just to keep my mind occupied. I also went to catholic school for 4 years. So I think I'm pretty qualified to not like the Catholic church.

Answer 9

i respect the teachings of catholics but disagree.
1. i find it horrible how millions, of christians end up beliving in more than one god, they pray to jesus and g-d, making themsleves polytheists
2. what happened to "dont do work on sabath, and dont eat milk with meat" , jesus decided gods original comandemnts do not apply anymore?
3. i have studied christainity in depth and realize there is no true basis of the new testemnet, it is merely a man made addition, to the true religion of judiasm. furthermore, this may be not true for 7/8 of christians, but i feel a great majority only choose christianity because it is the easiet religion.

Answer 10

I was raised Catholic. I have done all of this. That is how I know that they are wrong. They do not follow the teachings of the Bible. They raise Mary to a goddess, and put he above Jesus. They invented the trinity as a way to co-opt babylonian beliefs.

That is enough for me.