Dh grew up in a Baptist church but practices no religion now, though he does attend Christmas Mass with me. We grew up in the Midwest and he can’t recall ever hearing Catholic bashing, though his mom sounded displeased when I told her we were having our marriage convalidated in the Catholic Church. I always had a feeling she was opposed to Catholicism but she never said anything.
I used to go to Celebrate Recovery meetings at a non- denominational church where all the group members were Protestants of some kind or another. With the exception of a couple VERY mild snarky comments from a former Catholic woman who now goes to that church, I heard nothing derogatory. And in her case it finally came out that she was upset because she was divorced, remarried and not allowed to receive Communion.
That sucks.
While I acknowledge this exists it is not because they are Protestants or non-denominational but because they are human beings. I might also point out that this same hateful attitude also exists in reverse as is evidenced by some of our Catholic posters on this site. Should not Christ and His love be more than sufficient to to bind us together so that we can at least get along and show respect for each other and our beliefs.
Same thing here… Me and my family are non-denominational and have no issue with my wife and in-laws being Catholic and vice versa.I respectfully disagree. My husband and his family are non-denoms and they are very kind and loving and acceptant of my faith. They don’t want to become catholic, but they don’t put me down for it.
Now the Baptists (in my experience) are a whole nother issue.
Ditto, I basically ran into the same thing. I didn’t need a quote from a church Father though, I basically had one tell me such.Idk about that. With all respect and I do know your posts so I dont mean you in this matter. But I again feel in this forum Protestants are numerous times accused of being heretics and rejecting the one true faith and even one quoted to me a Church father saying we are not going to heaven (maybe not his words, but he quoted it none the less). So honestly my whole family in law are Catholic and I never got that idea from them. I prefer not to believe this is the case but posters in this forum makes it hard for me. Just a thought, maybe real world is different but on this forum there are more subjective Protestant bashing then anything else (yea we see it). But then again it’s a Catholic forum
This works both ways Protestant-Catholic.
I would have to imagine that the root problem is a misapplication of the idea of “exercising tough love”, “loving the sinner but hating the sin”, etc.
I can only speak for myself, of course, and no other poster; but the statement you quoted seems pretty fair to me: “Just tends to be worse with the protestant fundamentalists” – note, that doesn’t say Protestants in general, but specifically fundamentalists.
I understand this totally being from a large Italian family! Family members become very worried about another leaving the Church. The Church is very important to my family and the concern would be out of love.
I honestly do not think many people all over know the difference with “loving the sinner but hating the sin”.
I agree it’s a problem. I hate to say, but I think the older I get the more I learn that it can be a problem for Catholics as well as Protestants.
Welcome home to the house of sinners redeemed in Christ, who fall daily and who live among the saints and holy when we get back up, dust ourselves off and persist in the journey of Love in Christ.
That is a pretty broad brush that you’re painting all non-denominational with. I must be the lucky one who has never stepped foot into a non-denominational church that has been anti Catholic at all.
You must be that lucky one. I always hear in those churches
Ya, weird. My wife enjoys going to my church the couple times a year we go back home. I don’t think she’d like it if it were anti-Catholic.
Your answer here echoes my experience completely. And to be informed that since I am not a Catholic I am not saved is an uneffective method of winning me over since I know in my heart that is completely false. It makes me wonder what all else might be false.
Yeah, i wonder about that with Protestants too. How much else is false?
I think it largely is a matter of what counts as anti-Catholic. If you discuss that question with two people, one a traditionalist Catholic and one a Protestant (whatever denomination) you’ll get very different responses.