Annoyed at protestan preaching

[CWBetts]

There is a differnce between criticizing pure theatrics, and accusing a tradition of having no preaching.

 

[Monica4316]

In other words, there is NO expository preaching.

nearly every word of the Mass comes from Scripture… that’s different than in a Protestant service, which is a pastor talking for an hour giving *his own *interpretation of a verse or passage.

the point of the Mass is not a sermon but the Eucharist… through this, we worship God together with all the angels and Saints in Heaven and He unites Himself to us in Communion

The preaching of the cross is foolishness to them that perish.

are you saying we are perishing?

 

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Hi I just found this forum, I need some advise.
My best friend is protestan, I think pentecostal. We often meet and I listen to her tirades ok, but this last time it annoyed me so much that I am considering avoiding her from now on.

I want to understand why am I so turned off by the protestanism? I have gone like four times to her “church”. It is a huge place where they present like variety show, power point presentations, funny jokes, and preachings full of something that in words sounds cristian but in essence turns me off so much that is upsetting. It is like I feel I am being manipulated and everything is just a falsehood.

All the emotional and passionate showing of love of God, it should make me admire and want to be one with it but it only makes me feel sick.

no time for long post but i can surely relate!!!

Is something wrong with me?

In the last outing with my friend, I told her I was depressed and sick, she didn’t let me speak and we almost didn’t talk normal people stuff. She just went on preachiing a lot of nonsense like if she has transformed in Jimmy Swaggert.

I am afraid for her. I feel she is hypnotized.

I believe in God, I am a Catholic but it is a tranquil and perfectly sane decision that does not require theatrics, and allows for everybody else to say something. I like to talk to atheists and learn science as I want to understand their point of view and I want to be instructed. I feel they just put their hands in their ears and go lalalalalalala. Don’t want to listen.

And you know what really makes me mad? The way she alwasy speaks of the “curses and blessings” and blames everythign that is wrong with the world or a person to the fact that their parents must have made a horrible sin and now the children should suffer.

This is their way to wash their hands on feeling anythign about it.

I am just very mad. If this is what athesist feel when people want to convert them I understand them and they have my full symphaty. If I would not have real faith, she would have turned me into one this last time.