Anti-Catholic Whoppers

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InspiritCarol said:
…RE: the tree thing.
I’ve heard this before too. Does anyone know where it comes from?
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It’s in Acts 10:39. Even though it is in the Bible, I consider it a whopper because the people making the claim are taking one phrase and building a whole different religion out of it, and they were trying to convince me that it makes some grand theological difference if Jesus died on a tree rather than a cross made of wood from a tree.
 
mdrummer5 said:
Someone had mentioned Dan Brown’s books and their lack of historical accuracy… I don’t think this was a mistake per se so much as him putting a fictional twist on them… either way what I think is a larger concern is that people who’ve read them don’t consider that they found them in the section called “fiction” so they think the stuff in the books/movies is what we actually believe.
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The thing is Dan Brown didn’t just get things wrong with Opus Dei, the Magisterium, or the Catholic Churches teachings.
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DanBrowned/DanBrown

Yeah, a huge page on things he got wrong in his books. Including things that he could have easily fact checked. Basically he got facts about Art, History, and Science wrong as well as religion.

Martin Savidge: When we talk about da Vinci and your book, how much is true and how much is fabricated in your storyline?

Dan Brown: 99 percent of it is true. All of the architecture, the art, the secret rituals, the history, all of that is true, the Gnostic gospels. All of that is … all that is fiction, of course, is that there’s a Harvard symbologist named Robert Langdon, and all of his action is fictionalized. But the background is all true.
— CNN Sunday Morning, interview with Dan Brown, aired May 25, 2003

Seems to me like the only thing Brown is calling fictional are the actions of the characters-not the inane facts of hot air they are talking about.
 
shaunakei said:
…Dan Brown: 99 percent of it is true. All of the architecture, the art, the secret rituals, the history, all of that is true, the Gnostic gospels. All of that is … all that is fiction, of course, is that there’s a Harvard symbologist named Robert Langdon, and all of his action is fictionalized. But the background is all true.
— CNN Sunday Morning, interview with Dan Brown, aired May 25, 2003
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The way I read this is the true part is 99%, and the rest of the story, apparently the main part as opposed to the background, is 1% … which is fiction.
 
When Catholics go to confession, they have to pay $5 to the man with his collar on backwards.
 
Catholics have a good racket: they can sin all week and get forgiven on Saturday.
 
sedonaman said:
Working in a movie theater, I learned a lot about life. One thing I noticed was the almost blind faith people put in the veracity of movies. I don’t mean the obviously fictional type, but those with a historical backdrop. The factual backdrop lent credibility to the fictional part. A common reaction was, “They [the ubiquitous ‘they’] wouldn’t allow it if it wasn’t true.”

A good example is The Ten commandments with Charleton Heston. While the movie was accurate in many known historic details, there is no mention in the Bible of his love of the princess, a main part of the movie. Last time I checked, archaeologists are not even sure which pharaoh was the pharaoh of the Exodus. But you can find people who believe the love story actually happened.

So it doesn’t surprise me that the average person [including Catholics] believe in some of these way-out whoppers about Catholicism.
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This reminds me of watching films with my husband. He is one of those very practically minded people and when watching a film; such as Die Hard, he often says, ‘that gun only holds X number of bullets and he’s fired about 100.’ Or, ‘why is he doing that, it would be much better if he did this.’ I have to remind him, 'it’s not real it’s a film, the gun isn’t real, the people in it aren’t really getting killed and see that couple who have fallen madly in love - they are acting.
 
Maybe this one has already been listed:

If a Catholic gets elected president, he’ll take orders from the pope.
 
When I was in high school, a fellow student told me he would never be Catholic because Catholics have to eat fish on Fridays, and he didn’t like fish.

But my favorite is this one:

Pagans use pine cones in their art.
Catholics use pine cones in their art.
Therefore, Catholics are pagans.

There is actually a website dedicated to that nonsense.
 
So, Kepha1:

What’s wrong with a little “hate” used correctly? Aren’t we supposed to hate injustice, murder, kidnapping, rape, and other such “sins”? Such hatred motivates people to therefore do good and help victims of such crimes, etc.

Why can’t Catholics be a tad upset that so much hatred is shown towards them and their religion? Catholicism does not rule the world anymore, does it? There are always some bad apples in any bunch of whatever group, world civilization, or power–so too in the Catholic past. Take Rome, for instance. Now there was one nasty civilization and power.

Here’s one more for you. What’s wrong with love anyway? That’s the core of the entire Christian faith anyway and anything seems to go besides being Christian. So, defending the true Catholic faith, and working hard to keep it pure is also working hard to keeping love alive on this old planet earth. For without the salt of love, and those who contain this salt through the divine Holy Spirit of God, life on earth would be anarchy, chaos, and then perish.

stevieunderhill
 
Kay_Cee said:
But my favorite is this one:

Pagans use pine cones in their art.
Catholics use pine cones in their art.
Therefore, Catholics are pagans.

There is actually a website dedicated to that nonsense.
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I’ve seen the website.

They also have a loose definition of pine cone.

-Prophesy
 
kepha1 said:
It’s against the rules to post the link. Vatican assinines (spelled incorrectly without losing the meaning) , this web site gives head line after headline of the most malicious hate propaganda I’ve ever seen. Probably an SDA site.
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Kepha1: In your quote are your referring to the “Catholic Answers” web site, or to another web site that you wrote posts ‘hate propaganda’?

I answered your post and then realized perhaps you were not referring this CA web site as having headlines of malicious hate propaganda.

:)stevieunderhill
 
cthulhubryan said:
Catholics have the name of every protestant in a super computer and are working to destroy all protestant churches by the stealthy use of Jesuit super agents.
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This is definitely the best and funniest one I’ve read yet! Ha! Ha!

Now, I had already imagined Jesuit Navy Seals to try and convince Osama Bin Laden of his evil ways before his demise, but now I DEFINITELY want Navy Seal Jesuit Priest Super Agents to work on our behalf.

I just couldn’t wait for the movie to come out about the whole Osama black ops operation, but now I very much wish that Jason Bourne could come back as a Jesuit Navy Seal Super Priest and solve another one. Ha! Ha!

Guess I don’t have to buy the book, “The Seven Biggest Lies About the Catholic Church” now–this thread is all I seem to need for now.

BTW: Father Corapi spoke that at present, the Assembly of God churches are building about 80 to each Catholic one in South America, so there you go.

stevieunderhill
 
vwtaylorii said:
two months ago, I was talking to somebody about the material/formal sufficiency of Scripture. This person made some comments and gave me a long list of Church Fathers to show me they believe in the formal sufficiency of Scripture. I only showed him just three Church Fathers (Ambrose, Augustine, and Irenaeus) that showed they believe in the authority of Scripture and Church, not Scripture alone. He tried to change the subject and said those quotes were not interpreting Matthew 16 concerning the binding and loosing authority of the Church. After I said my thoughts, they stop talking to me.
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To paraphrase Dave Barry:

“When someone says they want to tell you about their religion, it rarely means that they want you to tell them about yours”
 
sedonaman said:
There are three things hidden in the basements of the Vatican:
  1. Hoards of gold, being kept to await its rise in price. [Funny how it hasn’t emerged in view of the recent rise in the last few years.]
  2. Vast cellars of wine, being kept to await its rise in price.
  3. Bodies of aborted babies of nuns who had affairs with priests [this one was already mentioned about a monastery].
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And, that super-computer with everyone’s information in it!:rolleyes:
 
While this thread is entertaining… It is merely identifying, not correcting the errors. The book, “7 lies…” does explain the misconceptions. But this thread is mostly over the top stuff, I doubt there’s a sufficient explanation for super jesuit navy SEALS, so we’ll just laugh whenever someone says that to us.
 
ESMDHokie77 said:
While this thread is entertaining… It is merely identifying, not correcting the errors. The book, “7 lies…” does explain the misconceptions. But this thread is mostly over the top stuff, I doubt there’s a sufficient explanation for super jesuit navy SEALS, so we’ll just laugh whenever someone says that to us.
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I think that this is more the “War Stories” thread than the “Tactics and Strategies” thread. People are recounting the craziest stories they’ve heard for some fun.

-Prophesy
 
Prophesy said:
I think that this is more the “War Stories” thread than the “Tactics and Strategies” thread. People are recounting the craziest stories they’ve heard for some fun.

-Prophesy
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Indeed. I was responding to stevie, since I don’t want this thread to stand in place of that book, which is a good counter to some of the less-over-the-top statements here.
 
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