Anti-Catholic Protestant denominations

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Are there any Protestant donominations that are strongly anto-catholic and should avoid?
 
susanbherald said:
Are there any Protestant donominations that are strongly anto-catholic and should avoid?
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Strongly anti-Catholic as in vitriolic towards the Catholic Church itself, or strongly anti-Catholic in that they disagree on numerous important questions?
 
Generally this phrasing implies against Catholicism as a concept or Church, rather than against specific teachings, though usually the former is also the latter.
 
ProdglArchitect said:
Generally this phrasing implies against Catholicism as a concept or Church, rather than against specific teachings, though usually the former is also the latter.
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Perhaps the better distinction is between those who hate what Catholics believe and those who hate what they think Catholics believe.
 
Well, I’ve oft heard it remarked that few people hate the Church what what she actually believes. Most of what uneducated Protestants know about the church comes from caricatures from the likes of Jack Chick, so it’d be hard to say any of them actually hate the Church based on her teachings.
 
Anyhoo, I’d probably say Baptists, Church of Christ, many Presbyterians, many Lutherans…really, I’d say there’s a pretty good chunk of just about every Protestant denomination that is anti-Catholic, though of late there’s a lot more friendship between evangelical denominations and the Catholic Church than there used to be because they’re finding that they’re brothers-in-arms against secular culture.
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Well, I’ve oft heard it remarked that few people hate the Church what what she actually believes. Most of what uneducated Protestants know about the church comes from caricatures from the likes of Jack Chick, so it’d be hard to say any of them actually hate the Church based on her teachings.
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Truer words, but plenty of Protestants do hate the Church over legitimate disagreement over practices like prayers to the saints, works involved in justification, etc.
 
In terms of stereotypes, probably Baptists, Church of Christ, and possibly the Pentecostals are the most Anti-Catholic, from my experience.

As a whole, the further away from “high church” liturgy that a denomination goes, the more anti-Catholic the people usually are. Once again, this is a generalization, as there have been plenty of Baptists, Church of Christ, and Pentecostals who have converted to Catholicism as evidenced by the ‘Journey Home’ TV program and website.

In my opinion, you shouldn’t necessarily avoid these people, as they need to see — thru your genuine Christian life and values — that Catholics aren’t the “Mary worshipping”, “Saint worshipping ” “Pope-worshipping” non-Christians that some believe Catholics are. But you need to have a thick skin and be ready to correct misconceptions if you want to go that route. Just as there are no two people exactly alike, the degree of anti-Catholicism a person is will vary from Protestant to Protestant.
 
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Tommy999 said:
In my opinion, you shouldn’t necessarily avoid these people, as they need to see — thru your genuine Christian life and values — that Catholics aren’t the “Mary worshipping”, “Saint worshipping ” “Pope-worshipping” non-Christians that some believe Catholics are. But you need to have a thick skin and be ready to correct misconceptions if you want to go that route.
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Certainly agree with this. I took the question as meaning avoiding the churches, not avoiding their members.
 
You’re probably right. I was looking at it from a more person-to-person perspective in case it was like a person at a job or school setting, etc.
 
Coming from a Baptist background with ALL of my family being Baptist except for my Aunt and Me who converted to Catholicism, they believe the misconceptions that we worship Mary, have insults about confession, etc.

I go to mass 3-4x a week and have tried to explain to my family that the RC church is the One True Church, but they scold me and try to silence me.

I wish I could share my love for the Catholic Faith with my family but so far it hasn’t happened…all I can do at this point is pray for them…
 
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pray to saints
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How is this a misconception? Pretty sure this is a thing. Not a bad thing, but a thing. Or am I misunderstanding something?

Edit: question answered. It is a thing – but not, as some believe, a substitute for prayers to God.
 
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Sorry I mean that we substitute prayers to God by only praying to saints
 
On the other hand, what one’s church believes and what one believes can vary. So their church’s stance might not be relevant.
 
I took it out of my post… I meant to say they think we only pray to saints and never Jesus
 
I think the level of anti-Catholicism expressed depends on the individual as well as the denomination, but the fiercest ones I’ve met so far seem to come from the following:

Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA)
Fundamentalists
Occasionally Baptists & Nondenominationalists

I’d even encountered one online who belongs to the Assyrian Church of the East, who would take no explanation of Catholic teaching. As far as he was concerned, we are the devil & need to convert because we’re all going to hell.
 
kainosktisis said:
but the fiercest ones I’ve met so far seem to come from the following:

Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA)
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Former SDA married to a Catholic here. My mom and a number of family is still SDA and they don’t seem anti Catholic. In fact I didn’t even know we were fiercely anti-catholic. At first I didn’t understand why the priest was talking about love bringing together “even a catholic and 7th Day Adventist” during the ceremony.
 
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I’m glad you & your household aren’t. I can’t say as well for others I’ve encountered. Very hellfire & brimstone.

I should add that some of the angriest Protestants I’ve encountered are former Catholics.
 
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I attended naively a prophecy seminar put on by what I later found out to be 7th Day
Adventists. Very anti-Catholic. Nice people, but very negative towards the Catholic faith - especially the Papacy.
 
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