Your Worst Anti-Catholic Experience

[lonnienord]

My worst experience was when I was the anti-catholic. The thing I dread most is when I have to stand before Jesus and tell him why I insulted his mom.
I am 69 yrs old and recovering from lung cancer and that is my deepest fear.

if you have gone to confession and recieved absolution it has been forgiven. if you haven't been able to go to confession but have made a perfect act of contrition (which you basically did in this post) you are forgiven. always remember that JESUS is rich in mercy!! JESUS i trust in YOU!!

 

[Cosmic Charlie]

At the risk of sounding like a macho tough guy (which I am not), I don't have anti-cathollic experiences,

Anti-catholics whom I encounter have anti anti-catholic experiences.

 

[Benedicta00]

Shelb, you did answer but you made questions too and I have asked several times not to ask about my beliefs.

Excuse me? Dicy- you ask questions wanting to know 'why' this and that… we answer with questions, asking you why not this and that?

You have showed your objections to Catholicism through your questioning Catholicism. So I know I ask you question pertaining to your objections that you have not answered.

So the next thread you come up with questioning how wrong Catholicism is, please bother to answer some of our questions and maybe you will finally have your answers to why we believe what we do.

 

[Colabomb]

Shelb, you did answer but you made questions too and I have asked several times not to ask about my beliefs.

So wait a minute, you can dig into Catholics about their beliefs, ask probing, accusational Questions, and all of a sudden you should be allowed to keep your faith a secret?

 

[lindamarie]

No kidding.

I have a half sister & 2 half brothers who were raised catholic.

Only one of the 3 have married in the RCC, but before we went to that wedding, my protestant aunt "threw down the guantlet". She told me that she and my uncle would be watching me to see if I knelt during the service -- and that if I did, they would know I was not really a christian.

I was all of 14 years old -- and I didn't kneel. I was afraid (I lived with them & thought they might kick me out.) It has bothered me ever since !!!

lindamarie

 

[Colabomb]

No kidding.

I have a half sister & 2 half brothers who were raised catholic.

Only one of the 3 have married in the RCC, but before we went to that wedding, my protestant aunt "threw down the guantlet". She told me that she and my uncle would be watching me to see if I knelt during the service -- and that if I did, they would know I was not really a christian.

I was all of 14 years old -- and I didn't kneel. I was afraid (I lived with them & thought they might kick me out.) It has bothered me ever since !!!

lindamarie

God is a God of Mercy.

 

[Skripper]

I didn't "slam" people asked me questions instead of answering my question and mocked me. So I responded with questions... which you could not handle.

You slammed, alright. I provided the link the link to the thread . . . so it's there for all to see. Every question of yours was adequately "handled" by those in the thread. And when those answers demonstrated the fallacy of the reasoning behind the original "question" (about consuming the Blood of Christ), you basically went off on an an anti-Catholic rhetorical rant, veering off into unrelated areas, and ended up using the thread as little more than a soap box to vent your dislikes/displeasure regarding Catholicism. Since that's not the purpose of OBOB, and since you ignored admonitions to get the thread back on track and instead continued on the course of anti-Catholic rhetoric, the thread ended up getting closed. Simple as that.

 

[Veritas]

My worst experience was when I was the anti-catholic. The thing I dread most is when I have to stand before Jesus and tell him why I insulted his mom.
I am 69 yrs old and recovering from lung cancer and that is my deepest fear.

He has forgiven you. You have gone forth and sinned no more (at least that sin!)

 

[Dicy mind]

So wait a minute, you can dig into Catholics about their beliefs, ask probing, accusational Questions, and all of a sudden you should be allowed to keep your faith a secret?

Yeah they don't have to answer. and what difference it makes what I believe when we talk about catholoc doctotrine.

 

[Dream]

and what difference it makes what I believe when we talk about catholoc doctotrine.

Explaining Catholicism to a Muslim is a far different task than explaining Catholicism to a Lutheran.

Frankly, I have a feeling you aren't even interested in the answers to your questions.

 

[Benedicta00]

Yeah they don't have to answer. and what difference it makes what I believe when we talk about catholoc doctotrine.

Because, it is in order to understand Dicy, our beliefs so you won’t be so anti our beliefs. We need to have a open dialogue, where we dialogue, not debate who is right or wrong.

We can help you understand better by knowing what mind set you are coming from and showing you, the gap is not a wide as you so desperately make it out to be. But you aren’t interested in learning or in dialogue, you are only interested in showing us our error according to you.

If you think Catholics are oh, so wrong then you need to drop the attitude that you need to point that out to us, and listen to us. You may find that we aren’t as pitiful as you think.

You know what I think? You're intrigued, drawn to us but you are afraid of what you learn so you are trying to convince yourself with your questioning that we are wrong.

 

[Dicy mind]

Explaining Catholicism to a Muslim is a far different task than explaining Catholicism to a Lutheran.

Frankly, I have a feeling you aren't even interested in the answers to your questions.

I understand that it's easier to tell about catholism if you know what I believe. But I was hoping that you would answer briefly.

 

[Dicy mind]

Because, it is in order to understand Dicy, our beliefs so you won’t be so anti our beliefs. We need to have a open dialogue, where we dialogue, not debate who is right or wrong.

Well I prefer other the way because when I read Bible there aren't any options which chapters and verses you should read if you are a muslim. There ain't seperate explanations to differend people. And there doesn't have to be, nor is any one needed to explain the message for it's the berfect word of God.
I don't mean to lecture you about it but the answers you have gave me seem so fragile that I don't wonder why you want to explain them to individually to people with different beliefs.

We can help you understand better by knowing what mind set you are coming from and showing you, the gap is not a wide as you so desperately make it out to be. But you aren’t interested in learning or in dialogue, you are only interested in showing us our error according to you.

Initially I am interested and open minded, but when I get the feeling that your claiming one plus one to be one, I'd rather see your formula than start talking about mine.

If you think Catholics are oh, so wrong then you need to drop the attitude that you need to point that out to us, and listen to us. You may find that we aren’t as pitiful as you think.

It's hard to listen seriously some one who is saying that something that looks like a duck and sounds like a duck isn't a duck.

You know what I think? You're intrigued, drawn to us but you are afraid of what you learn so you are trying to convince yourself with your questioning that we are wrong.

Nah, it's actually the exect opposite. Because I am more afraid becoming convinced that catholic doctrine doesn't walk in Jesus' way and every time I have learned more about catholism the more distant I feel to it.

 

[Carrye]

But I was hoping that you would answer briefly.

What's your question?

 

[Colabomb]

Yeah they don't have to answer. and what difference it makes what I believe when we talk about catholoc doctotrine.

So we can have a common Ground.

You get on the board and tell everyone they are "wrong", but you don't bother to tell them what is "right". You go into a rant, and then hide away in a corner. That's not playing fair.

Roman Catholics and I disagree on some things. but they will admit that I don't hide in a corner about what I believe, and I don't get on here in order to make thinly veiled attacks on their faith.

You are playing Dirty.

If you want to bring up Catholic Doctrine and debate it, go to the doctrine boards, this is a Congregational Board.

In Christ!
Your Brother!
John><>

 

[Colabomb]

Well I prefer other the way because when I read Bible there aren't any options which chapters and verses you should read if you are a muslim. There ain't seperate explanations to differend people. And there doesn't have to be, nor is any one needed to explain the message for it's the berfect word of God.
I don't mean to lecture you about it but the answers you have gave me seem so fragile that I don't wonder why you want to explain them to individually to people with different beliefs.



Initially I am interested and open minded, but when I get the feeling that your claiming one plus one to be one, I'd rather see your formula than start talking about mine.



It's hard to listen seriously some one who is saying that something that looks like a duck and sounds like a duck isn't a duck.




Nah, it's actually the exect opposite. Because I am more afraid becoming convinced that catholic doctrine doesn't walk in Jesus' way and every time I have learned more about catholism the more distant I feel to it.

And the point is, it is not your job to come on their board and argue with them.

How would you feel if they came on your Board and started telling you that Protestants were wrong for not praying to the Saints, and Subjecting to the Pope, and cutting out Books of the Bible? It would be inappropriate.

Leave interdenom debate, for interdenom debate boards.

 

[Benedicta00]

Well I prefer other the way because when I read Bible there aren't any options which chapters and verses you should read if you are a muslim. There ain't seperate explanations to differend people. And there doesn't have to be, nor is any one needed to explain the message for it's the berfect word of God.
I don't mean to lecture you about it but the answers you have gave me seem so fragile that I don't wonder why you want to explain them to individually to people with different beliefs.



Initially I am interested and open minded, but when I get the feeling that your claiming one plus one to be one, I'd rather see your formula than start talking about mine.



It's hard to listen seriously some one who is saying that something that looks like a duck and sounds like a duck isn't a duck.




Nah, it's actually the exect opposite. Because I am more afraid becoming convinced that catholic doctrine doesn't walk in Jesus' way and every time I have learned more about catholism the more distant I feel to it.

Dicy... and you say you didn’t slam the faith? You just did by saying we aren't walking in Jesus' way. You really need to knock it off. None of us are stupid, we know good and well what you are up to and do you actually think you are the first to try to pull this attempt to save the poor Catholics?

You may not realize it but the Holy Spirit draws all to His Church, some in different ways and in different circumstances, but you have free will- you can follow or you can fight.

Putting us down and saying that you read the bible and you have all the answers and we don't really is not getting you anywhere. This approach has been used several thousand times and to no avail.

And you saying that you don’t want to share what *you believe is true is odd to us because doesn’t the bible say a city on a hill can not be hid, and to let your light shine, you don’t light and candle and put it under a bush?

But why do Catholics put up with all this abuse?

Well, Catholics are ecumenical minded, meaning it is our duty to bring everyone into the fullness of the Christ faith and we can only do that through education and dialogue- the Holy Spirit and your free will has to do the rest. We do our best to let our light shine before men as Jesus instructed us to do, we are that city on a hill that can not be hid.

We put up with people slamming the faith and try to educate them instead because as Mother Theresa said, “we must recognized the face of Christ in all his distressing disguises.”

The next time you have a question wondering why we believe what we do when it makes no sense to *you who is a all knowing bible reader, you may want to actually consider what we are telling you because if you did, you would not be so confused as to why we believe what we do.

Like many, you don’t see Dicy, because you don’t want to see. It is scary, I understand finding out you may just be wrong and the Church just may be all that she claims to be.

I know being surprised by truth isn’t easy. Questioning- just like you do, has lead many on a journey to the Catholic Church that they never expected- so beware. It all starts with dialogue and dispelling myths and lies about the Catholic faith the enemy has perpetuated for centuries.

 

[Benedicta00]

What's your question?

His question was why do we drink blood when the bible says we aren't supposed to.

He asks us a question based on a total false premise and expects us to ignore that fact and just answer briefly, 'why.'

He was perturbed that we challenged his false premise and that we asked him just how does he conclude what he does.

 

[Carrye]

His question was why do we drink blood when the bible says we aren't supposed to.

Ah, I see. I guess the shortest answer I could give would be: Ask Jesus. He's the one who commanded us to do so. We don't claim to know the mind of God. We just do our best to obey.

I hope you're doing well, Michelle.

 

[Benedicta00]

Ah, I see. I guess the shortest answer I could give would be: Ask Jesus. He's the one who commanded us to do so. We don't claim to know the mind of God. We just do our best to obey.

I hope you're doing well, Michelle.

I'm a fine thanks.

But he assumes Catholics drinking the blood of Christ falls under the admonishment to not drink the blood of sacrificed animals or idols which of course we know we are not to partake in and wanted us only to answer based on that false premise.