Catholic phobia

[BjBarnett]

is it me or are some protestants afraid of being to Catholic? I mean i see some around here that avoid any type of Catholic connection at all. one popular one is "my denomination didnt split from the catholic church its always been here". I dunno maybe its just me but it seems like some protestants are afraid to have anything in common with us. thats not very nice

 

[Wild_Fan4Christ]

I have experienced it first hand. Met some Baptists over the summer and now they don't talk to me after I told them I was not converting. There are a few of them that still talk to me. But when I give them my ideas of Catholic doctrine to some questions they ask they shut it out as offensive.

 

[Dream]

I remember talking to one of my friends in high school. When I told him I was Catholic, he told me I was going to Hell. That's what he learned in his church.

It just kind of made me think, would Jesus look kindly on a religion that condemned all parishenors of the church He created?

 

[BjBarnett]

I remember talking to one of my friends in high school. When I told him I was Catholic, he told me I was going to Hell. That's what he learned in his church.

It just kind of made me think, would Jesus look kindly on a religion that condemned all parishenors of the church He created?

my thoughts exactly. I just dont understand why some protestants refuse to have any trait that will make them have something in common with the evil Catholics

 

[Y_Cathol]

But then, on the other hand, I have some great friends that are not Catholic, and they listen to the things I say... one of them has even been to Mass with me...

I just think that it is a misunderstanding... They may not understand the faith, so they may be affraid of it.

 

[ps139]

my thoughts exactly. I just dont understand why some protestants refuse to have any trait that will make them have something in common with the evil Catholics

Thats exactly it. Some people thing the Church is evil, plain and simple. It's a shame. Our best way of convincing them otherwise is to love them.

 

[BAChristian]

People are scared to death of that which they do not understand. When people get scared, they react.

It's just that simple.

 

[CrystalBrooke]

people are also scared of the truth and what's real....a lot of people are terribly misinformed...some are just ignorant and stuck in a certain mind set that is "Catholics are Bad" personally i like coming in contact with them, it gives me practice to tell them what i know so far about Catholicism

 

[Irenaeus]

I remember reading an Evangelical Author, or maybe my friend told me about it. He complained about some of his other Brothers and Sisters, saying, "They're only boast is to say, 'At least we're not Catholic!' "

A mission statement based on division is never a good thing.

I have very good friends of all kinds of Protestant Denominations; none really give me a problem - when you're friends in person, and not on the internet or something, it relaxes you and chatting about the faith can be more of a positive experience.

 

[epiclesis]

I get so annoyed and discouraged by things that Protestants say about us. But then I have to remind myself that this is our suffering for the goodness of the Church. I can't explain it the way I want to. But how it kind of weighs out and all. If someone understands what I mean, it's a miracle, because I can't describe it.

 

[CrystalBrooke]

i know what you're saying Steph... to be a part of the True Church we're going to be persecuted, but we can't quit...if every Catholic who's ever been told that they're not christian, or that they're going to hell were to quit, there would be no church.

 

[SumTinWong]

is it me or are some protestants afraid of being to Catholic?

At my Baptist church we offer vaccines for people that are truly afraid of being to Catholic. But because the flu shots and the anti-Catholic vaccines were in the same shipment from Europe, and therefore are in short supply, there might be an even more heightend sense of paranoia

By the way my tongue was firmy planted in my cheek at the time of this post. Any facts that may have been transmitted during this post would highly shock and amaze me.

 

[Epiphanygirl]

You would think we walked around with a big "C" on our foreheads huh?

 

[CrystalBrooke]

i'll be worried when someone starts hyperventelating (sp?) whenever they come around me

 

[epiclesis]

i know what you're saying Steph... to be a part of the True Church we're going to be persecuted, but we can't quit...if every Catholic who's ever been told that they're not christian, or that they're going to hell were to quit, there would be no church.

Yes about the part about being persecuted and can't quit. But I mean more like we're suffering, but good comes out of it, and that good is belonging to the Catholic Church.

I'm still confusing people, I'm sure.

 

[Wiffey]

It is tragic that there are some groups who will make misinformed blanket statements regarding others' salvation ( all that "if you do not belong the Chuckie's Independent Free Radical Revival Bible Church, you are going to Hell" stuff). It is also tragic that the reactionary nature of the Reformation can still be observed in the knee-jerk anti-sacramental sentiment found in many Protestant groups.
There is also that delusion that EVERY Christian (both Orthodox & Catholic) fell away from true faith until magically, in the 1500's, the reformers revived Christianity...
How strange...
Wiffey

 

[MagicalMerriment]

Ha, I love that phrase. "Catholic phobia." We have so much of it around here... there are five Baptist churches, compared to one Catholic Church. One very SMALL Catholic Church. Not all of those Baptist churches, but at least two to three of them, teach that Catholics are wrong, evil, etc. You've heard it. I attend the local high school here, and most of the people there go to one of the five Baptist churches, so I hear it ALL the time. If someone finds out I'm Catholic or catches me with rosary in hand, they usually have to say something offensive. If I try to talk to them about it, it's like they panic and become a broken record player: "You Catholics think you're always right."

 

[BjBarnett]

Ha, I love that phrase. "Catholic phobia." We have so much of it around here... there are five Baptist churches, compared to one Catholic Church. One very SMALL Catholic Church. Not all of those Baptist churches, but at least two to three of them, teach that Catholics are wrong, evil, etc. You've heard it. I attend the local high school here, and most of the people there go to one of the five Baptist churches, so I hear it ALL the time. If someone finds out I'm Catholic or catches me with rosary in hand, they usually have to say something offensive. If I try to talk to them about it, it's like they panic and become a broken record player: "You Catholics think you're always right."

haha yeah there are about a billion baptist churches here and 2 small Catholic churches in the county.

 

[AMDG]

I'm wondering if my new neighbor is still going to talk to me now that she realizes that I'm Catholic (how could she miss it with the Mary Garden and statue of Our Lady out front!) In the month that she has known, I've seen neither "hide nor hair" of either her OR her children coming or going. Darn! And they were so nice too! (I'd knock on their door, but the place is fenced to keep out unwanted strangers.) Hoping everything is okay and I just haven't seen them simply because of the weather and that she homeschools or something on weekdays and is in her church on Sunday! Hope it's not because of any "Catholic Phobia"--I mean, I'm harmless. I have to worry?

 

[Miss Shelby]

is it me or are some protestants afraid of being to Catholic? I mean i see some around here that avoid any type of Catholic connection at all. one popular one is "my denomination didnt split from the catholic church its always been here". I dunno maybe its just me but it seems like some protestants are afraid to have anything in common with us. thats not very nice

Here's what you do Ben.

Invite them over to your house for tea or something. Soda or whatever. Lunch..Then, when the clock strikes noon, sit up abruptly with startled look and say 'Excuse me for a moment' run over to your statue of the Blessed Mother or St. Thomas Aquinas or whomever you have, your crucifix would work too. Bend down and in front of it and murmur 'It is 12 o'clock, it is time for me to worship you, oh ceramic one..........' (or wooden one, whichever the case may be). Do a coupla these...

Then cross yourself and promptly return to your friends, picking up with the discussion where it left off.

Or.. you could invite them to do noon prayers with you, but you'd probalby get the same reaction.

Michelle