Since i was a catholic until maybe a few monthes ago, i am SO aggravated by people who think that Catholicism is NOT Christianity.

SO MANY christians condemn catholicism, make wrong stereotypes about it , think all Catholics are stupid, and say that i am not a Christian if i am a Catholic

Hello?! Christianity DERIVED from Catholicism! So what do all of you protestants have against it? What is so wrong about Catholicism?

And since i was taught only catholic beliefs, what is the DIFFERENCE between protestant beliefs and Catholic beliefs?

I have nothing against Catholics or really any faith. I just do not believe their teachings. As I have said before I am Buddhist. My only real beef with the Catholic church is the molestation problem that they face. I also disagree with the torture devices they used back in the day, but I don't have any issue with their faith as a whole or the people that follow the church. I agree that Jesus was cool.

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Originally posted by hottiegurl16:
I have NOTHING against catholics, but I know a lot of people do. But...the same thing goes for christians. A LOT of people don't like christians either..I should know since I am a christian. But catholics have basically the same beliefs as christians, just they mostly focus on Mary. My best friend is a catholic, and I go to church with her all the time!! So, I don't think that catholics should be given a hard time for their religion. Actually..nobody should!

Catholics DON'T mostly focus on the Virgin Mary. We DO worship GOD and JESUS you know!

Wait. I'm confused. I'm a Catholic raised by Catholics that went to a Catholic school for 5 years, that has best friends that are Catholic..but nvrmind that..PROTESTANT religions don't believe in Saints?? I just want to know why not? Just so u know, I'm not very religious and I am debating whether or not to change faiths, but I pray to Saints for help because they can help you. I don't know if the Catholic Church believes this, but I believe that Saints help God, (Sorta like angels but not really) by helping the people of Earth. I guess I really rely on Saints because I like to think that they were once people. IDK..

Anyone who beleives that Jesus is the ONLY true Savior, and that the only way to salvation is through him alone is a Christian.

Do I have some problems with specifics in the catholic religion, sure. I don't think praying for someone after they die helps get them to heaven. I also don't see the point in praying to saints to talk to God for you. Furthermore, I have problems with the Pope deciding which prayers people need to say and making up new ones. These are only minor problems. If Catholics beleive what I said above (and they do I think), there are really no signifigant problems.

There's no difference between them, it's just another excuse to allow humans to act like jackasses, which we evidently love to do.

well, Ortodox dont like you because some older popes in europe did some ethnic cleansing and crusade against the ortodoxs... so its an old people thing

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That all changed when a Pope was put in place, and he changed the traditions.

When you change the traditions, well, from where I come from that would mean we don't follow King Neptune anymore. That would mean that plankton took over. So that means that the Bible is only something to laugh at, because Plankton changed it all. Well, anyway, that is how we look at the Pope from down here. Nothing personal.

That really doesn't make sense because the first pope was Peter, the founder of the church and not only does chrisitanity have a long history of using force to defend faith (see the old testament) peter himself fought to defend his faith and his God. (though he was properly chastised)

Moved to a more appropriate forum. Carry on.

From my perspective, looking up, where most look down, I can see things many miss. Like the Pope. The apostle John, 1 John 1:5-10, and Peter, 1 Peter 2:21, say to walk in the walk of Jesus. I recall the early Christian church, and the earler church fathers never started an army so they could defend themselves, or to conquer others. That all changed when a Pope was put in place, and he changed the traditions.

When you change the traditions, well, from where I come from that would mean we don't follow King Neptune anymore. That would mean that plankton took over. So that means that the Bible is only something to laugh at, because Plankton changed it all. Well, anyway, that is how we look at the Pope from down here. Nothing personal.

i'm catholic and have attended Catholic School for twelve years, at the moment I attend a public university but I still involve my self at the Newman Center.

Whenever someone appraoaches me on a certain thing that Catholics and other Christians don't agree on I tell them to read the Catholic Catechism as a solve to all their problems

1. don't use capslock
2. Catholics do not pray to saints and if I had a dollar for everytime I'd heard that idiotic comment fly out of someone's mouth I wouldn't need a job. Catholics ask the saints and Mary to pray for us, under the theory that the more people you have praying for you the better
3. I see tons of christians wear crucifixes and I see plenty of catholics who don't. The reason that we depict Jesus on the Cross (called the "Corpus") is not because we think he's still there but to remember the pain he endured for us and the sacrifice he made for us.
4. Do some research before you open your mouth about a faith that is not yours again

I THINK THAT EVEN CATHOLICS AND CHRISTIANITY IS DIFFERENT. CHRISTIANS DON'T PRAY TO OTHER SAINTS BECUASE WE PRAY TO ONLY ONE GOD AND WE DON'T WHERE CRUCIFIXES AROUND OUR NECKS BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT JESUS IS NOT STILL NAILED TO THAT CROSS. WE DON'T PRAY TO SAINTS BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS THAT YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY OTHER GODS. WE KNOW THAT THOSE SAINTS CATHS. PRAY TO CAN'T HEAR YOU. DO THEY SPEAK TO YOU? NO, THEY CAN'T EVEN FEEL OR SEE.

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Originally posted by cosmicdream:

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think all Catholics are stupid

i don't think it's stupid. it's almost the same. we use t bible( do u call it bible or something else?), there's jesus, mary in it.we all pray for family, friends, peace. what's the difference?

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Christianity DERIVED from Catholicism

u got that right. i forgot when it happened.

I think it's really, really dumb to think that one's person's view is "wrong" because it's not exactly like yours. It's like telling someone that likes the color green, "I don't like green so green is bad." Forcing your religion on anyone is way uncool, because everyone has the right to believe what they want. Personally, I am not a catholic, but saying that all catholic people are "bad" is way false because there is no way I could know all catholic people. Some catholic people most certainly aren't nice, but judging someone based on their religion makes absolutely no sense--not all catholic people are the same.

I'm non denomenational... I follow only the bible. If you have ever seen Joel Olsteen, I believe the exact same things he does. I follow only the bible, and the preacher doesnt have any special divinity, he just encourages us. I believe in Jesus too. Catholics arent bad, they just believe in saints. I don;t, but it doesnt mean they are bad, its just god is probably angry at them for worshiping anybody but himself

Catholicism is wrong if you decide to force it to my mind.

To answer the original question: Catholicism is wrong because I'm not a Catholic. End of discussion.

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Originally posted by cowsfly:
. Jesus tells us to confess our sins to HIM and HIM alone not some guy apointed by another guy.

Actually, Jesus told us to confess our sins to each other. "Therefore confess your sins to each other" is clear in James 5:16. In the earliest Christian churches, people would actually stand up in front of the whole church to confess. Many Protestant churches our totally erasing this commandment from their doctrine. I am not Catholic, I am Orthodox, but we also confess our sins in front of a priest, fulfilling Christ's commandment.

yucky

What I know about catholics is enough to not want to be one, although I don't HATE them. I don't see how they put so much into Marry just because she gave birth to Jesus and why they have all these statues of her and all this other mumbo jumbo because GOD chose her not herself. She's not as important as they think she is. sure you can say without her Jesus would have never been born but GOD would have simply found another. She was in GOD's plan not her own. Then what is the point of confession. Telling a priest about the sins you've commited during the week isn't going to get you forgiveness while sitting in a little box. Jesus tells us to confess our sins to HIM and HIM alone not some guy apointed by another guy.