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

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JoeMike said:
Does anyone ever respond that partying is not a sin?

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Yes, it don’t matter. When people say you drink, I say yes so did Jesus. I can’t wait to live in eternity with him, and enjoy a glass of wine. That pretty much shuts them up.

Then I tell them what a Priest told me, Its not what goes into your mouth that sends you to hell, its what comes out of it.😃
 
rinnie said:
Yes, it don’t matter. When people say you drink, I say yes so did Jesus. I can’t wait to live in eternity with him, and enjoy a glass of wine. That pretty much shuts them up.

Then I tell them what a Priest told me, Its not what goes into your mouth that sends you to hell, its what comes out of it.😃
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Amen to that
 
The Man Himself said what goes into our mouths can’t hurt us, it just ends up in the sewer. (sorry, can’t quote chapter & verse on that one but it IS in the New Testament)
 
rinnie said:
Yes, it don’t matter. When people say you drink, I say yes so did Jesus. I can’t wait to live in eternity with him, and enjoy a glass of wine. That pretty much shuts them up.

Then I tell them what a Priest told me, Its not what goes into your mouth that sends you to hell, its what comes out of it.😃
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This^
 
I never understood that paranoid about drinking wine. The wedding of Canaa is a bad example…:eek:
 
When I were but a Lad in India, my Paternal English Grandfather was CofE and paternal German Grandmother was Catholic. The Christian cemetary was (is!) divided in two; Grandma is buried in the RC part and Grandpa is just over a wall in the CofE half, head-to-head in identical graves but divided in death. On All Souls’ day the catholic half would be ablaze with hundreds of candles as we waited for the Priest to bless our graves. It used to bother me that the CofE half would be in darkness. I used to hop over the low wall and just stand before Granddad’s grave wondering if Catholic prayers were valid on that side!:). On recent visits I noticed the wall is now some fifteen feet high: I wonder which side erected the great wall of Hyderabad cemetary?
 
IanGE said:
When I were but a Lad in India, my Paternal English Grandfather was CofE and paternal German Grandmother was Catholic. The Christian cemetary was (is!) divided in two; Grandma is buried in the RC part and Grandpa is just over a wall in the CofE half, head-to-head in identical graves but divided in death. On All Souls’ day the catholic half would be ablaze with hundreds of candles as we waited for the Priest to bless our graves. It used to bother me that the CofE half would be in darkness. I used to hop over the low wall and just stand before Granddad’s grave wondering if Catholic prayers were valid on that side!:). On recent visits I noticed the wall is now some fifteen feet high: I wonder which side erected the great wall of Hyderabad cemetary?
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Wow. Well certainly Heaven doesn’t have a wall!

There was a funny episode of the Simpsons where they showed ‘Protestant Heaven’ and ‘Catholic Heaven.’ On the Protestant side very WASP-y looking people were sitting around drinking gin and tonics and playing badminton, and on the Catholic side there were Italians and Mexicans dancing, eating spaghetti, and seemingly having a much better time. I think they had a pinata, lol.
 
IanGE said:
When I were but a Lad in India, my Paternal English Grandfather was CofE and paternal German Grandmother was Catholic. The Christian cemetary was (is!) divided in two; Grandma is buried in the RC part and Grandpa is just over a wall in the CofE half, head-to-head in identical graves but divided in death. On All Souls’ day the catholic half would be ablaze with hundreds of candles as we waited for the Priest to bless our graves. It used to bother me that the CofE half would be in darkness. I used to hop over the low wall and just stand before Granddad’s grave wondering if Catholic prayers were valid on that side!:). On recent visits I noticed the wall is now some fifteen feet high: I wonder which side erected the great wall of Hyderabad cemetary?
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And I am of Goan (India) Ascent on my mother’s side.
Indians are the most sensitive people I have ever met in my life and the most religious too. They are always in a bad mood with everybody for some tiny little bits of the smallest problems in the world.
There are more religions in India than in the rest of the World. Most people do not know that Buddha was Indian.
So, the division brought by Europeans was exacerbated in India.
 
Last night my wife and I went to ihop for or weekly date night dinner. Before you say anything about the fact that we were eating at ihop for date might you first have to realize it was 11:30 at night and we had just gotten out of the er after being in a motor accident.
Anyways back to the main story. We were sitting and waiting for our food when we hear a few tables away we hear these college students talking rather loudly about different subjects. One of the afore mentioned college students stats going off on a rant about how he doesn’t want to support the all powerful, corrupt, and insanely rich catholic church. Before I could say anything to the contrary he drops this gem, “Last summer I got to look through one of the Vatican’s secret underground vaults. They had a 16 foot tall scroll in there with all the names of the knights templar that were executed on it. They also had these hidden works from famous philosophers like Voltaire just laying around the vault.” I almost died from laughter.
 
Acerunner said:
Last night my wife and I went to ihop for or weekly date night dinner. Before you say anything about the fact that we were eating at ihop for date might you first have to realize it was 11:30 at night and we had just gotten out of the er after being in a motor accident.
Anyways back to the main story. We were sitting and waiting for our food when we hear a few tables away we hear these college students talking rather loudly about different subjects. One of the afore mentioned college students stats going off on a rant about how he doesn’t want to support the all powerful, corrupt, and insanely rich catholic church. Before I could say anything to the contrary he drops this gem, “Last summer I got to look through one of the Vatican’s secret underground vaults. They had a 16 foot tall scroll in there with all the names of the knights templar that were executed on it. They also had these hidden works from famous philosophers like Voltaire just laying around the vault.” I almost died from laughter.
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Haha. No better way to tackle anti-Catholicism than by getting the most mental ones in the foreground for people to see ah 😉
 
Some of the above are totally priceless. Talk about invincible ignorance. 😃

I submit the following exchange for your reading pleasure:

Colleague: “You’re a Catholic, right”?
Self: “Yes, that’s right.”
Colleague: “You go to Church every Sunday. Is that why they call you Seventh-Day Adventists?”
Self: (begins to explain the MASSIVE differences between the Church and SDA)
Colleague: “Oh, I get it. And your main book is the King James Bible, right?”
Self: gives up

😉
 
RPRPsych said:
Some of the above are totally priceless. Talk about invincible ignorance. 😃

I submit the following exchange for your reading pleasure:

Colleague: “You’re a Catholic, right”?
Self: “Yes, that’s right.”
Colleague: “You go to Church every Sunday. Is that why they call you Seventh-Day Adventists?”
Self: (begins to explain the MASSIVE differences between the Church and SDA)
Colleague: “Oh, I get it. And your main book is the King James Bible, right?”
Self: gives up

😉
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I am of Goan Ascent from my Mother’s side. Everybody says that I am very patient from my Indian Ascent.
So, you, my sister, are not patient !?:eek:
 
Once, I had a girl tell me that the Baptist church (is there a single, unified Baptist church?) was 2000 years old, that Henry VIII started his own religion (apparently out of nowhere), and that the Church was 500 years old.

Maybe that explains the Church’s great immoral appetite, because Alexander VI (or, more properly, Alexander I) was our first Pope. 😃

There was another time at a Mexican restaurant, I was visiting old friends in my previous town, and somehow the subject of religion came up. I was listening, cutting into my enchilada, and all of a sudden, out of the blue, I hear from my friend’s guest, ‘just be careful around those paedophile Catholics!’. Naturally, my knife scraped against my plate and I almost choked to death being blind-sided like that.

I also hear about how the Jesuits intend on overthrowing the world’s governments, the usual Mary worshipping, and, that Latin was used… to hide what the Church was saying during Mass! Also, I was told priests are ‘generally’ anti-Semitic.

*On a special note, why do the Jesuits get the rumours of sedition? Is it an old hold-over from the days of Elizabeth I and Walsingham? One would think the Dominicans would be the ones conspiring to overthrow republics, like that one…

I’m somewhat shielded, though, from tirades about the Rosary and statues because I’m not of the Latin Rite, but they still make me want to do this…

:banghead:
 
One of my RCIA instructors was a wonderful older lady who had converted some years earlier. She recalled being stopped in the grocery store (when she was in the process of converting to the Catholic Church) by Protestant friends who told her that they were praying for her, and that they were so sad she no longer believed in Jesus. :confused:

The funniest reaction I got when I was becoming Catholic was from my lab partner. He seemed confused that I was becoming Catholic on purpose and brought it up several times in honest disbelief.

In all seriousness, though, may all those who hate the Catholic Church find that their hatred boils down to a simple misconception like this. Then the misconception can be easily cleared up, and everyone is happy.
 
In all seriousness, though, may all those who hate the Catholic Church find that their hatred boils down to a simple misconception like this. Then the misconception can be easily cleared up, and everyone is happy.
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Bishop Fulton Sheen used to say that there probably aren’t a hundred people who truly hate the Catholic Church, but millions who hate what they *think *the Catholic Church is.
 
sjh331 said:
One of my RCIA instructors was a wonderful older lady who had converted some years earlier. She recalled being stopped in the grocery store (when she was in the process of converting to the Catholic Church) by **Protestant friends who told her that they were praying for her, and that they were so sad she no longer believed in Jesus. **:confused:

The funniest reaction I got when I was becoming Catholic was from my lab partner. He seemed confused that I was becoming Catholic on purpose and brought it up several times in honest disbelief.

In all seriousness, though, may all those who hate the Catholic Church find that their hatred boils down to a simple misconception like this. Then the misconception can be easily cleared up, and everyone is happy.
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That one really gets me. The Mass is all about Jesus. Would that they spent as much time in their services worshipping Him as we do.

Forgive me if I sound snarky but then again I am a convert. I get to say that. 😃
 
HisIsTheCrown said:
I am of Goan Ascent from my Mother’s side. Everybody says that I am very patient from my Indian Ascent.
So, you, my sister, are not patient !?:eek:
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Er, I’m a guy. Not sure where the “my sister” bit came from. 😛

And that was meant to be a humorous post. The essence of the incident is true, but we did end up discussing Bible versions. I was just trying to highlight the particular (amusing) misconceptions about various forms of Christianity that could come up, especially in a place where it’s not the majority religion. 😃
 
Not nutty but interesting and surpriseing. I was helping with an RCIA class, and a couple were converting from some protestant denomintaion.

They were quite fearful about abandoning their former faith, like they were joining something weird. I assured them there was nothing crazy about the Catholic Church. Since I was raised Catholic, I was very comfortable with it, and I assured them there was nothing evil or crazy about it. I think they had heard some rumors about Catholicism and were wondering what they were getting themselves into.

I assured them , we believe all the stuff in the Bible as they do (but not quite so literally) and we have been around since Christ and we are 100% Christian. Who knows what sorts of misinformation they may have been told.

The couple are now Eucharistic ministers and quite active with the parish.

Years ago, a friend of a friend, a hard core evangelical, was telling folks Catholic were devil worshippers, partaking in black masses and ancient rituals. I must admit mass is a fairly ancient ritual, but devil worshippers !?? What a thing to say about fellow Christians.
 
wcknight said:
I assured them , we believe all the stuff in the Bible as they do (but not quite so literally) and we have been around since Christ and we are 100% Christian. Who knows what sorts of misinformation they may have been told.
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It’s ironic, I think, that on everything fundamentalists disagree with, the Church takes literally, while the ‘literalists’ take it ‘symbolically’.
 
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