Fundamentalist Urban Legends

[cath4alltime]

The biggest urban legend - Protestantism is true

 

[Bonnie]

I heard this one not long after becoming Catholic - it may be a Jack Chick claim.

Every confession is recorded and all the recordings are stored at the Vatican.

I can just imagine the poor priests from the many, many years before tape recorders. They would be frantically writing down every word said in the confessional. “Slow down! What was that last sin again?”

I think the supposed purpose was to blackmail us into doing the Pope’s wicked work for him. Do people really think our sins are that bad?

 

[MJE]

the infamous hitchhiker that people would pick up who look at them and say “jesus is coming” and then disappear.

We had a preacher once who stopped in his sermon and claimed “in his spirit” that “he heard footsteps” and the crowd went crazy and he yelled into the mic “jesus is coming!!!” and took off running…

He got caught in adultery a few years later. Is it any wonder why i am messed up witnessing all this in my youth?

truth is stranger then fiction!

 

[colmywaykurtz]

What I am about to mention I don’t think is so much an urban legend as it is revisionist history. I used to attend a fundamentalist Baptist church which believed in the whole “Trail of Blood” story. What that is is the belief that there was always a remnant of fundamentalist Christians who remained true to the “true” Gospel from the beginning of the Church all the way until modern times. They believe that the Catholics suppressed this remnant of Christians which was supposedly the “true” Church. They support this claim by claiming that various heresies were the “true” Christians. But the fact is, none of the ancient heresies believed all of the exact same things that modern fundamentalist Baptists believe.

I know I’ve heard statements like this applied to groups like the Catharii, Albigensians, Waldensians etc. When one looks at what they actually taught, it’s a cinch most of these modern defenders would probably disown them.

Many, in fact, were converted by St. Vincent Ferrer during his apostolate. But you won’t hear their modern defenders saying that. No, sir—“they were all victims of the Catholic Church’s genocidal campaign,” they’ll tell you.

 

[colmywaykurtz]

I remember being told a story about WWII and these mysterious white planes that only the Germans could see that helped the allies to win after Winston Churchill ordered the country to pray to God for help. The pastor was using it to illustrate the faith as small as a mustard seed parable, and that if we had enough faith we could pray for anything and it would happen.

That’s weird. Wow.

Also, it reminded me I’ve heard similar WWII rumors about DRAGONS appearing over the English Channel during the Battle of Britain, and flew around igniting German Junkers and Messerschmidts with their fiery breath.

 

[cajunhillbilly]

I know I’ve heard statements like this applied to groups like the Catharii, Albigensians, Waldensians etc. When one looks at what they actually taught, it’s a cinch most of these modern defenders would probably disown them.

Many, in fact, were converted by St. Vincent Ferrer during his apostolate. But you won’t hear their modern defenders saying that. No, sir—“they were all victims of the Catholic Church’s genocidal campaign,” they’ll tell you.

I have a friend from a Baptist church that believes this view. When I pointed out what some of those groups that she claims were forerunners of the Baptist Church actually believed, she just turned a deaf ear. Did not want to hear it. Fortunately I studied Church History in college and seminary.