Biggest Lie said about Catholics

  • Thread starter Thread starter BlessedYoungCatholic
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
What you find in the dictionary/thesaurus may explain why some non-Catholics believe as they do.
Granted. That doesn’t make their beliefs true, but yes; it may explain the beliefs.
 
That “the Catholic Church is an evil place for pedos and dumb anti-science people”, i had a debate on reddit and there was this atheist who didnt wanted to ask his quention on this forum becuse “he does not associate with pedos”, its hard to keep a conversation like that.
 
This is the one that really stuns me! No personal relationship with Jesus!Whaaaaaattt!:woman_facepalming:t2:
 
Believe it or not, some Protestants think that Catholics are required to only talk to Jesus through a priest, or through Mother Mary or through a saint. I agree with you, it is odd especially since Catholics have huge numbers of traditional prayers said directly to Jesus.
 
That Catholics “added” books to the Bible and that we crucify Christ repeatedly at every Mass and have no understanding of grace.
 
My first encounter with anti-Catholicism a girl asked if my father belonged to the Knights of Columbus. When I said no, she said good because she wouldn’t be able to be friends with me if he did since they killed Protestant babies. I was ten. She also told me about sister’s who had escaped from the convent. This really surprised me since I was always in the convent and knew they weren’t chained there nor were there locks on the door.
 
Last edited:
That unbaptized babies go to Limbo if they die in infancy
That only Catholics can get into heaven
That we worship statues

The first two, believe it or not, were taught to us in pre-Vatican II Catechism classes.
 
It’s been a while since I’ve been to a meeting, but I’m not sure how that one got out

(I hope people know I am kidding)
 
That unbaptized babies go to Limbo if they die in infancy
This is actually still an acceptable belief for a Catholic. The Church has chosen to take no official position on this issue, so a Catholic is free to believe it, or not believe it, as they choose. You will still find some Catholics who believe in Limbo of Infants and they’re allowed to do that.

And yes, it was taught pre-Vatican II and there was a push at the time of V2 to get the Church to make it an official teaching. The Vatican considered that but declined to make it an official teaching.
 
Last edited:
40.png
JanR:
That unbaptized babies go to Limbo if they die in infancy
This is actually still an acceptable belief for a Catholic. The Church has chosen to take no official position on this issue, so a Catholic is free to believe it, or not believe it, as they choose. You will still find some Catholics who believe in Limbo of Infants and they’re allowed to do that.

And yes, it was taught pre-Vatican II and there was a push at the time of V2 to get the Church to make it an official teaching. The Vatican considered that but declined to make it an official teaching.
And, they were right in declining to make Limbo for unbaptized infants an official Church teaching because, in truth, we really don’t know if their souls wind up in Limbo.

I personally choose to believe that God, in His supreme love and mercy, grants dispensations for little babies who die unbaptized and haven’t reached the age of reason and haven’t had the opportunity to commit any actual sins. I believe they go straight to heaven.

God loves the little children, and the most helpless among them are infants.
 
I don’t believe in Limbo of Infants either and I suspect that most Catholics don’t, because it seems out of character for a loving and merciful God to eternally punish innocent children for stuff that is beyond their control and often (such in the case of stillbirths and miscarriages) beyond their parents’ control also.
But Catholics are free to choose to believe in it.
 
So why baptize infants at all?
Catechism
The Baptism of infants

1250 Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God, to which all men are called.50 The sheer gratuitousness of the grace of salvation is particularly manifest in infant Baptism. the Church and the parents would deny a child the priceless grace of becoming a child of God were they not to confer Baptism shortly after birth.51

1251 Christian parents will recognize that this practice also accords with their role as nurturers of the life that God has entrusted to them.52

1252 The practice of infant Baptism is an immemorial tradition of the Church. There is explicit testimony to this practice from the second century on, and it is quite possible that, from the beginning of the apostolic preaching, when whole “households” received baptism, infants may also have been baptized.53
 
Just a small note limbo was not a place of punishment.
From the Catholic Encyclopedia
Now it may confidently be said that, as the result of centuries of speculation on the subject, we ought to believe that these souls enjoy and will eternally enjoy a state of perfect natural happiness; and this is what Catholics usually mean when they speak of the limbus infantium, the “children’s limbo.”
 
That Catholicism is a plagarized version of the Ancient Egyptian Religion. Heard this one yesterday. It had me dumbfounded.
 
I’ve not heard that one before. Heard that Mary was a copy of an Egyptian goddess, but not that Christianity was copied from the Egyptians.
 
Just a small note limbo was not a place of punishment.
Eternal separation from the beatific vision, as well as separation from baptized loved ones such as parents, sure sounds like punishment even if you want to paint Limbo as being DIsneyland with ice cream. Spin it how you like, it doesn’t exist in my book so there’s no point in even arguing about how wrong-headed Church theologians made up the story.
 
When the sisters taught me this my reaction was the same. Just a side question: Is it a punishment not to be with those we love here on earth? Than are those in heaven being punished if a loved one did not make it to heaven? To your point, if they are ignorant of the Beatific Vision how can they be unhappy?
 
DIsneyland with ice cream
Even after a while Disnetland and icecream can drive you nuts… 🙂

Another rumor Catholics believe Purgatory is a place where flames of fire burn you in agonizing pain until you are cleansed of your sins.

Catholics believe there is more then one unforgivable sin.

and Catholic believe a priest is forgiving us of our sin, not God. The priest gets to decide if we are forgiven or not.
 
I was instructed during my RCIA about the difference between adoration and veneration.
Our instructor also commented that there are way too many Catholics who are all over Mary statues with their hands and lips which is totally inappropriate and can justifiably interpreted by an outsider as adoration. It is indeed a problem that many Catholics take it way too far.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top