How do southern baptist feel about catholics?

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Hi, im new to this site. I am a cradle catholic that has a lot to learn about my faith:D I married a southern baptist and have a 2yr boy that i baptised catholic. I am just wondering exactly how baptist feel about us catholics. My husband is very openminded so he does not think im going to hell for believing in my faith;)
 
On the whole, Southern Baptists are quite tolerant of Catholics. They don’t talk about them much and they try to avoid issues of doctrine and scripture that point to Catholic beliefs. On more than one occasion I have seen a Catholic priest participate in a wedding with a Southern Baptist pastor. It is even possible that your children will be able to say Hail Mary’s around their Southern Baptist grandparents. The grandparents probably won’t say anything to the children, but they will complain to their SBC friends.
 
Some may be tolorant of Catholics, but let me tell you a little about my son’s former Southern Baptist pastor.

At my conversion to Catholicism, I took my children out of his church and brought them to Mass with me (something about worshiping as a family:rolleyes: ), anyway, he called me up to ask why I did this and of course I told him.

The next thing I knew, he was saying we worship Mary and idols, believe in works salvation and on and on and …then the clincher for me,he said that me and my children were headed to hell because we went to the Catholic Church.:mad:

Like I said, not all are like this,but this Southern Baptist preacher sure left a bad impression with me.
 
Thanks for your (name removed by moderator)ut. You see, my mother n law who is baptist, tries to get me to let my son go to her church instead of mine. She told me that he would learn more about jesus at her church than mine. Thats why i ask the question, just wondering if they all feel this way…
 
It doesn’t matter how Southern Baptists feel about Catholics because they’re wrong.
 
Well, that’s a pretty blunt way of putting it! 😃

I learned about Jesus on my own, I read the bible. I was compelled to become Catholic, what can i say! My mom was raised baptist, knows her bible. It can get pretty sketchy sometimes at home, but the main issue we have is birth control.

She’s so adamant that there is absolutely nothing wrong with contraception so long as you are married…and that it is a perfectly good Christian value. Oh well…

Baptists are ok, when they tell me i’m going to hell just tell em “see you there, because we’re all sinners!”

-revelations
 
My priest told me a funny story… many years ago when he was a newly-ordained priest, he was stationed in a small church in a rural town. The only other church was Southern Baptist. Whenever he would walk down the street, children would point at him and whisper, or follow him as if looking for something. One day he turned the children and asked, “Children! Why are you staring at me? What are you looking for?” To which they answered, “Your TAIL!” Apparently their pastor at the SB church told his congregation that the new Catholic priest was “the devil.” :eek: 😛

Let’s hope we’ve all evolved from that viewpoint! :rolleyes:
 
cradlecathlic26 said:
Thanks for your (name removed by moderator)ut. You see, my mother n law who is baptist, tries to get me to let my son go to her church instead of mine. She told me that he would learn more about jesus at her church than mine. Thats why i ask the question, just wondering if they all feel this way…
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That sounds like the Baptists I used to go to church with. :rolleyes: I wonder how she knows that her church is “more about Jesus” than the Catholic Church is? Has she been to Mass? A friend of mine is a convert who said the first time she went to Mass she actually got angry - all those years she’d been told that Jesus wasn’t mentioned in the Catholic Church and lo and behold the Mass is ALL about Jesus! She had been lied to!

Here’s a web page that lists all the Scripture that is said during a Mass. It might be handy for you to have a printed copy of this for your m-i-l. 👍 Then ask her how many Scripture verses are said during the course of a service at her church. :whistle:
 
I have known hundreds of Southern Baptists, and have all my life. Lots of them just don’t know much about the Catholic Church. Some have some pretty strange ideas about Catholicism, but will give them up readily when you explain to them.

One of my favorite examples is when a S.B. lady I knew very well finally, I guess, worked up the courage to ask me why Catholics eat blood. My jaw dropped and I asked her whatever made her think we did. Well, she heard that at a Catholic Church near her the people all did that, and she named the church. It is a country church, most of whose parishioners are Polish; lots of them being farmers. Each year they have a Polish festival on the parish grounds, at which are served many traditional Polish dishes including a soup called “Czarnina” which, sure enough, is made out of duck’s blood.

I explained to the lady that it was a Polish thing to eat duck’s blood soup, not a Catholic thing to eat blood. Possibly it helped when I told her I had been to the festival many times but could never bring myself to eat the Czarnina, although I liked some of their other dishes, which I described. That cleared it up for her, and she seemed relieved to hear it.

So, one more myth demolished. Lots of things some of them think are like that. Most of it is just misunderstanding.

But sure, they believe their own religion, and most of them believe you have to be “saved” to go to heaven. I have, after some discussion, gotten a number of them to admit of the possibility that some, maybe lots, of Catholics are “saved” too, when you get them to define being “saved” and explain your own beliefs to them. Catholics actually do fit the “saved” category as most of them understand that.
 
Hmm, well, I was never a Southern Baptist, but my wife and I were both independent Baptist until a couple years ago. I was raised in a Baptist school, a leader in a Baptist youth group, and we met at a Baptist college. Not all Baptists are alike, but my particular sect was very anti-Catholic.

Our view of Catholic was based primarily on (1) sola Scriptura, the belief that one must live ones life solely based on the sixty-six books of the KJV Bible; (2) a mistaken view of history, in which quasi-pre-baptists were always the heroes and Catholics always the villains, and where Catholics perverted the true church; and (3) sheer ignorance of what Catholics actually believe, along with a lethargic attitude toward ever learning more than what you were taught by Pastor Bob in his sermons.

In 2001 or 2002 I leafed through a book by Pope John Paul II in a bookstore. I was shocked to see that he knew his scripture, and quoted it at length.

Also, my experience is that Baptists have absolutely no concept of where all that “extra” stuff comes from–Tradition. I think I was in late high school before I figured that out.

I think educating Baptists is the best possible way to reach them. I would give a year of my life if I could get my parents to a good Pontifical Novus Ordo mass at our Cathedral; as it is, they won’t set foot in a Catholic Church. None of my family came to our son’s baptism, and my Father-in-law often lectures me saying “You know in your heart being a Catholic isn’t right.” To many stricter Baptists the Catholic Church is intrinsically evil, and only deceives.

I’ll never set foot in a Baptist church again, personally, because the last time my wife and I visited her old church the pastor decided to preach against Catholicism. We got into it after the sermon, and he lectured me about the “millions” killed in the Inquisition. During the sermon, he said Mary herself needed to be redeemed (I said amen, since She was redeemed ahead of time).

In short, my personal experience with the stricter sort of Baptists has been that many of them despise Catholicism as a devil’s religion, while having no clue what it really is. (Once my mother-in-law asked my wife if we have to pay for absolution!)

BUT, the good news is I’m wearing my parents down. I mention Catholic news and various local Catholic Churches I’ve been to and homilies I’ve heard. They’re becoming more and more undersanding; and my Dad brought up the Pope, with respect, the last time I visited him. That’s big for an ex-Catholic! I don’t think they’re anticatholic anymore! Next step: getting them to Mass…

Ave Maria–Pray For Us!
 
Just wanted to thank everyone for being so polite. I have been on the other site called churchusa and i have never met such mean spirited people in my life. I learned alot of things that protestants think about catholics and it sickend me. Call me crazy, but i thought the crucifix was a good thing… apparently we worship a dead jesus on a cross:rolleyes: Among other things…

I look forward to learning more about my faith!
 
To answer this question you first need to separate catholics into 2 classes : the lay catholics and the leadership in Rome. Southern Baptist despise Rome and feel it is “pure evil” and their false teaching deceive to poor lay catholic. Southern Baptist feel sorry for lay catholics and feel you could be christians if not for Rome.
 
Ridgerunner said:
One of my favorite examples is when a S.B. lady I knew very well finally, I guess, worked up the courage to ask me why Catholics eat blood. My jaw dropped and I asked her whatever made her think we did. Well, she heard that at a Catholic Church near her the people all did that, and she named the church. It is a country church, most of whose parishioners are Polish; lots of them being farmers. Each year they have a Polish festival on the parish grounds, at which are served many traditional Polish dishes including a soup called “Czarnina” which, sure enough, is made out of duck’s blood.

I explained to the lady that it was a Polish thing to eat duck’s blood soup, not a Catholic thing to eat blood. Possibly it helped when I told her I had been to the festival many times but could never bring myself to eat the Czarnina, although I liked some of their other dishes, which I described. That cleared it up for her, and she seemed relieved to hear it.
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:rotfl: I like Czarnina!
 
I’m married to a former Southern Baptist (entered the Church last Easter, Praise God!), and my mil and fil are very devout Southern Baptists. They have never said a bad word to me or anyone else about my faith. The first time I ever visited them on a Sunday, they called to find out the mass time of their town’s only Catholic church (they lived in a very small town) so I could attend mass. They attended our wedding in my church, complete w/ statues 😉 (we didn’t have a full mass only b/c my pastor doesn’t believe in having nuptial masses for interfaith couples, as he thinks it’s mean to exclude half the family from Communion, when the wedding is supposed to be celebrating the uniting of the couple. I know that goes against canon law, but he’s the pastor 🤷), and they’ve attended the baptisms of 2 of our 3 children (they didn’t make the 3rd b/c it was during 8:30 mass and they live 2 and a half hours away). In short, they’re wonderful people who’ve never questioned my Christianity, and we talk about our faith all the time.

As for the Southern Baptist Convention as a whole, I’m not sure if they have an “official position” on us. I’m sure attitudes would vary church by church. My husband attended 2 different S. Baptist churches in his life, one in a small rural town (he grew up in and attended until going away to college), the other in the suburbs of St. Louis (as a young adult in his early 20’s). He says he never heard anyone even mention Catholics or the Catholic Church at either church. He grew up believing Catholics were Christians, we just had “extra stuff” that wasn’t necessary, but wasn’t bad, either. Of course, in all his years of Sunday School, he doesn’t remember ever being taught the doctrine of Eternal Security (OSAS), the symbolic nature of baptism, or that Mary lost her virginity and had more children after Jesus was born. 🤷. Needless to say, it was very easy for him to become Catholic 😃 .

I’ve attended my il’s churches (they’ve belonged to 2 since I’ve known them) a few times, and never heard anything untoward in the sermons. I’ve also listened to David Jeremiah on the radio (he’s pastor of “community church”, but his theology is S. Baptist), and never heard him say anything anti-Catholic (occasionally heretical, like when he goes into the the “being saved” thing like it’s a one time event), but others have said he has on occasion. Ditto w/ Charles Stanley and (the late) Adrian Rogers.

As far as Baptists go, I’ve found the more vocal Anti-Catholics are the Independent Fundamentals and Regular Baptists, of which our own Allis Chalmers is a member (where’s he been anyway? Haven’t seen him around in awhile.). These 2 groups tend to think the Southern Baptists are too liberal (which is a hilarious statement, if you knew my il’s :rotfl:

In Christ,

Ellen
 
Baptists, like all other Protestants don’t all share the same faith in matters of who is and isn’t a Christian.

Most of the newer generational Baptists are very Christian in their attitude towards us.

It comes down to Christian inclusionists (Christians who want to work to bring people to Christ) and Christian exclusionists (so-called Christians who want to work to divide the body of Christ).

In the end, some will be called sheep and some goats and we all know that only the sheep are led by The Good Shephard.

I’ve been around Catholics who weren’t Christians and Baptists who were prime examples of Christians. I’ve met Priests who were unChristian to me and I’ve met Baptist Pastors who were unChristian to me.

We can no longer speak of any Protestant church member or group as a block any more because they are always changing. I can say this…the ones who’ve been around the longest as religious groups (Lutherans, Episcopalians, Anglicans, etc…) are resembling Catholics more and more.

Even the most recent additions to Christianity (The Baptists, The Pentecostals, The Evangelicals, etc…) that have developed a solid grounding on Jesus’ teachings find that they can no longer denounce The Catholic Body of Believers.

Look at the whole Catholic Charistmatic/Protestant Pentecostal movement…they are worshipping together.

An anti-Catholic/anti-Protestant is a bigot in either case.

They are a dieing breed.

The Body is unifying.

And this is making some angrier, but one cannot stop what I believe God wills and Jesus prayed for.

Home for Christians is not where the building is,
but where the heart is. If the heart is in the right place,
there is The Church!
 
An article you might find interesting

baptiststandard.com/2001/4_2/pages/catholic.html
‘We’re not ecumenists,’ SBC says
in breaking off Catholic dialogues
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“The Roman Catholic-Southern Baptist conversations have given us an opportunity to come to a very clear understanding that there are some marked and clear theological differences between us,” Gonzales said.
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“We’re focused on our mission first and foremost. Any future conversations that might develop will have to fit within the parameters of what the North American Mission Board has been charged to do, which is to assist Southern Baptist Churches to evangelize North America.”
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2ndGen said:
Read the article…so in other words,
their too busy spreading Christianity to talk to Christians?

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You have to read between the lines
For several years, a small band of highly vocal Southern Baptist conservatives have doggedly sought to end any relationship between the SBC and certain other faith groups, especially Roman Catholics.
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Reminds me of a joke…

An atheist died and went to heaven.
Saint Peter greeted him at the gate and showed him around.
He asked if he was banned because he didn’t believe.
Peter asked him if he believed now and the atheist said of course.
So Peter told him not to stress it, he was forgiven.

Anyway, he showed him the various sections where the Catholics, Muslims, Buddhists, and other faiths worshipped God in their own way with a section where they all came together to worship God.

The Atheist heard a loud ruckuss from behind a wall. He heard bickering and arguing and fighting.

He asked Peter what was that section.

Peter said, “Oh, those are the Protestants…they think that their the only ones here.”

LOL!
 
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