Catholic hatred

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artortega said:
So some of them.
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Good. As the others have posted, I don’t think you can say “all” I know of one woman I went to college with who was raised Catholic, had a child out of wedlock, was told by a Catholic priest (in the 70’s) that she and her illegitimate baby were going to hell, and she turned her back on Catholicism. We have had any number of adversarial conversations and her beliefs are unwavering, but there are portions of Catholicism she still admires, and doesn’t hate “us”, but will have nothing to do with the RCC. So, not all.

And, by the way, Chick is dead so hopefully is verbal vomit will eventually go away.
 
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artortega said:
I know, but his anti-catholic organization is still alive.
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True, but so are Luther’s, and many others. They are probably not going to go away in the near future, if ever. The thing about Chick is that even fundamentalists don’t consider much of his “verbal vomit” nothing more than the “nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind.” (to quote Dr. Frankenstein in the Mel Brooks movie, “Young Frankenstein”)

The danger in Chick is that fundamentalists portray him as a kook when the proselytize, in effect saying, "This guy Chick is spouting nonsense, but let me tall you about the real problem with Catholics…)
There’s the real danger. They use him to legitimize their own prejudices.

So, not all, but your contention that Chick is dangerous does hold some water.
 
Dlee said:
Catholics are hated by protestants; protestants are hated by catholics. Change the word hated to misunderstood. Most hate of any kind is based on what you have seen, heard, experienced or been told (whether true or false.) I laugh at books I have read about what Catholic’s believe and they were written by a protestant. Same hold true when Catholics write about what protestant believes. It’s all lack of education and even wanting to be educated.
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… and everyone hates the Jews. It’s as American as apple pie!

Tom Lehrer’s “National Brotherhood Week”
 
Antisemitism a pretty universal phenomenon. Americans aren’t even close to being the worst offenders either.
 
It’s hard to be tolerable of the Catholic Church while being Protestant, at least if a Protestant really knows history and their theology.

For if the Catholic Church is not an idolatrous church, then why remain Protestant?

I know this is not how most Protestants think, I suppose. But it’s not very consistent. Protestants used to claim the Pope was the anti-Christ. It’s absurd, and yet consistent with their need to justify separating from the only church in the West.

Why else would the reformers break away from the Catholic Church if it was just a matter of corrupt members here and there. No, to justify breaking a way, you gotta toss it all out.
 
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I did. It’s just one song. No statistics or anything on the actual prevalence of antisemitism in the US compared to other countries.
 
Yes, that’s the point. It’s a joke. The song is from a well known American political entertainer from the 1960s satirizing race relations (along with other forms of social tension prevalent in America at the time) vis a vis the now defunct American public relations campaign “National Brotherhood Week”.

There’s a line in it that goes “The Protestants hate the Catholics, and the Catholics hate the Protestants. The Hindus hate the Muslims, and everybody hates the Jews…” I spliced together another line from the song: “All the white folk hate the black folk, and the black folk hate the white folk. All of my folks hate all of your folks. It’s as American as apple pie!” It was a point of levity not meant to be taken seriously. The post I quoted mentioned Catholics being hated by Protestants and Protestants being hated by Catholics and it reminded me of that old Tom Lehrer bit. 🙂
 
pianistclare said:
They are carrying around a Catholic book.

Show them the pages online that take the Catholic Mass line by line, and show that it is indeed, Scriptural
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Could you list chapter and verse so those of us who don’t have that memorized will have a resource we can turn to when confronted?
Thanks
 
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You can’t go wrong with Dr. Sri. The Lamb’s Supper by Scott Hahn is a heavy hitter on this subject as well.
 
I agree fully. Some people don’t like his style, but he is always spot on with really good insights.
 
I am one of those who sort of cringes at his style, but I really appreciated all the information he gave in Rome Sweet Home. It really got me digging in other sources.
 
Sometimes i find it hard to be 100% faithful to the church when i read other views from people who bring up, what they see, as negative aspects of the CC.
 
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