Nuttiest Things Non-Catholics Have Said or Done Around You Because You're Catholic

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Is that what we are supposed to do with them? I thought they were meant to feed the T Rex I keep in my backyard! Mine is named cuddles.😛
 
Acerunner said:
Is that what we are supposed to do with them? I thought they were meant to feed the T Rex I keep in my backyard! Mine is named cuddles.😛
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If I bring a goat can I play with Cuddles? I wanna play!!!:whackadoo:
 
Well, just last night I was called a psychopath, a psycho Christian, and a follower of a “Nazi Pope” because I pointed out that desiring to be center stage is a form of pride.
 
Boulder257 said:
Are we not supposed to be sacrificing a goat once a year? That will definitely reduce my annual goat bill! 😛

The only thing I sacrifice is meat on Fridays and something for Lent, lol.
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Another reason to be upset with my RCIA class years ago. They never told us about the goat! What else didn’t they tell us converts? (And does one have to go to confession for not sacrificing a goat these past 6 years???):eek:
 
maltmom said:
If I bring a goat can I play with Cuddles? I wanna play!!!:whackadoo:
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Of course you can! Cuddles loves visitors! Especially ones that come with goats. Try and bring one with small horns. The large ones arereally hard on the digestive tract.
 
Holly3278 said:
Well, just last night I was called a psychopath, a psycho Christian, and a follower of a “Nazi Pope” because I pointed out that desiring to be center stage is a form of pride.
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Who did the name calling, if that’s something I can ask? I’m a little confused without context.
 
I was at the train station with a work colleague just the other night and she was telling me about dramas she was having with a friend. After reading a text from said friend to me which mentioned they were on their way to mass, she proceeded to read her reply which was along the lines of

“You’re been brainwashed. You’re 35 years old. It’s about time you started to think for yourself and choose to follow your own morals rather than those that were spoon fed to you as a child…etc. etc.”.

She got about half way through and then stopped. She just looked at me and abruptly change the subject.

Ok, it’s not nutty except that in Australia you just don’t bring up religion with work colleagues. At least not often. I actually find it rather amusing - given how she judges Christians she’s actually the most judgmental person, who can’t think for herself, that I know.
 
Lochias said:
…Don’t you hate it when UPS just leaves your goat on the porch without having anyone sign for it?!
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Yes! I do hate it when they leave my goat all by itself out the front! Next thing you know, the local riff-raff turn up to tease me about being catholic, and they get my goat. They really get my goat. Oh, and my annoying little brother deliberately sets out to get my goat. He reckons that if he gets my goat, he’s going to dress it up and parade it about before maybe giving it back.

I guess if someone else got my goat, at least they’re stopping me from sacrificing it. ;):cool:

BTW I’m loving this thread. What fun! Heading back towards the topic: when you hang about the internets too long, you eventually get bored by the “catholics are cannibals” trollery. I think it’s intended to be a witticism about communion and the body & blood of Christ. Meanwhile, here are some of my favourite real-life ‘nutticisms’:
  • I used to live in an area targetted by those young mormon missionaries. No worries, they were pleasant and entertaining. I always gave them a cup of warm milo before sending them on their way. One day I opened the door to the usual, plus some new kid. They asked if they could give me their spiel, and I offered to listen and give them milo. The new kid responded: “I don’t know if I should tell you the Truth. Because you’ve gotta know, if I tell you the Truth, and you don’t repent being catholic? Then you will burn in hell forever.” No milo for you, sunshine!
  • My aunty is some kind of non-denominational spiritualist. She’s convinced that I’m possessed. One good ole exorcism and I’ll be fixed.
  • After meeting my catholic friend from Goa for the first time, my methodist nanna sat me down and lectured, “Protect yourself child, you can’t trust those buggers with their dark looks and their long knives. Except for your friend XXXXX. He seems lovely.”
  • We have close friends who are modern protestant pentacostalists of some kind. They are goodhearted folk who try very hard to help us out, and they have actively supported us coming back to church and faith, even though they wish I’d change my mind about the catholicism thing. Mostly I blank out weird anti-catholic stuff they say. But last year I had to buck up because their 7yo told my 7yo “I prayed for you at church on Sunday, because you’re going to hell if your mum won’t let you come to my church. I hate her because she won’t let you be a christian and she’s making you go to hell.”
  • And lastly, me, as a young unbaptised child in a non-practising methodist family who was taught christian faith by a volunteer baptist pastor in a government primary school: “I want to be a nun, but you have to be catholic or they won’t let you. I hate catholics because they won’t let me be a nun.”
 
Rabbity said:
Hi guys!

I know there are threads out there about common misconceptions like you worship Mary or discourage people from reading the Bible.

This is not that thread.

I’m curious to know what were the craziest and most outrageous reactions and misconceptions people have had to you or your family or friends because you’re catholic.

A friend of mine said when her grandmother was a child there was a woman on her block who would go running across the street whenever they saw them coming. Not just casually stroll but pick up her skirts and full on sprint. Weird stuff.

Humor is appreciated.

Play fair. Be nice.

Thanks!
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If you’ll accept a third person anecdote. . . .

A Catholic philosophy professor I once talked to told me a story of lecturing somewhere out West (I think it was in South Dakota) where there were very few Catholics. A woman came up to her after the lecture and said, “I was taught as a child that Catholics killed and ate babies, but I never believed it.”

To which the professor, completely freaked out by this, responded, “Well, we stopped doing this after Vatican II.”

I have some worries that the lady in question may not have understood the professor’s sarcasm, but it’s still a funny story.

Edwin
 
Contarini said:
If you’ll accept a third person anecdote. . . .

A Catholic philosophy professor I once talked to told me a story of lecturing somewhere out West (I think it was in South Dakota) where there were very few Catholics. A woman came up to her after the lecture and said, “I was taught as a child that Catholics killed and ate babies, but I never believed it.”

To which the professor, completely freaked out by this, responded, “Well, we stopped doing this after Vatican II.”

I have some worries that the lady in question may not have understood the professor’s sarcasm, but it’s still a funny story.

Edwin
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I knew the legend but had the detail…“at breakfast”.
 
Someone said something about birth control and my brother in law stopped and said “Oh I’m sorry, does that offend you? Saying something about birth control?”

We have a very dry sense of humor so it doesn’t offend me. My husband’s family is just like that. I am equally sarcastic with them.

I will try to think of some more.
 
IanGE said:
I once had a Scottish girl-friend. All was well until I mentioned I was a Catholic. “OH NO!” she screamed in horror, “I was told Catholics EAT BABIES!” My howls of laughter didn’t help either!😃 End of relationship!:rolleyes:
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Is this an old one? My dad (61) has told me people said this about them when he was growing up.
 
A few weeks back someone asked me, in all seriousness, that if they made the sign of the cross over a piece of bread, woudl it turn into Jesus? Which then led her to ask if she made the same sign over say an iPod would it then be Jesus?

I have absolutely no idea where the heck she got that idea from.
 
My father once told me that if a Catholic wants to get to heaven they must leave their home to their local parish in their will and that as a result Catholic Parishes usually own the majority of homes in the surrounding area.
 
I don’t remember hearing a whole lot nuttier than the typical stuff…“Why do you pray to statues?”, ect.

Some of these are making my mind boggle…:eek:

I think the closest I can come is one of my former bosses at McDonald’s, and she was mostly just teasing. She asked what I was, I told her I was Catholic, and she rolled her eyes and said “You Catholics, you can party all night Saturday and go to Confession on Sunday, and things are just fine”.

She and I ribbed each other a lot, but she’d had an unfortunate experience with some little non-denom church that left her a little bitter towards the whole idea, too…pastor took up a large collection for some fake repair project, and high-tailed it out of town with all the money one day.

You never know what’s driving some of these comments, I guess…
 
**On another subject, that the Pope does not allow prostitutes to use condom. **

I am still laughing about this one. Too funny! :rotfl:
 
vera_dicere said:
A few weeks back someone asked me, in all seriousness, that if they made the sign of the cross over a piece of bread, woudl it turn into Jesus? Which then led her to ask if she made the same sign over say an iPod would it then be Jesus?

I have absolutely no idea where the heck she got that idea from.
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It was likely a response to Catholic views regarding the Eucharist.
 
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