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

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Some guy is currently trying to convince me that the Swiss guard is an army and that they are large enough to invade another country and are currently plotting to do so to Italy. 🤷

Which reminds me of another time a guy ranted and raved about the huge military that the Vatican controls. It took me a while to get him to name this military. Turns out he was talking about the Church Militant. Since he was himself a Christian, I explained that technically, he was a Church Militant too. Never heard from him again.
 
there have been a few instances I can recall. One of my favorites was when i was speaking to a non-denominational friend of mine, we were carrying on about church, and scripture for about an hour or so, and I guess he had made the assumption I was a non catholic christian, and when he asked what church I attended, I told him St. Stephen’s, which celebrates the TLM, and is fairly known in my area, and he just shut down and didn’t even talk to me after.

I’ve noticed a lot of folks talk about the pet peeve of the “Christian and Catholic” thing. I ALWAYS refer to myself as a Catholic-Christian and everyone else as non-catholic christian. I find it always sparks interesting conversation, where you can find much profit in clarification. I always respectfully say there are too many non-catholic christian denoms that I don’t want to offend, and for sake of conversation/debate call all non-catholic Christians by a fitting title. I think I started a thread on it years ago about Reclaiming the word “Christian”
 
Lately, I’ve gotten outright negativity. Not questions or comparisons.

It’s rather annoying; and more than once it’s happened in mixed-company at social gatherings that were otherwise pleasant and respectful affairs.

Friday: I was at a going-away part in the rec room of a high-rise condominium building. Somebody said “F*****ing Catholics,” which people noticed but tried to ignore. I brushed it aside; it’s not a teachable moment to get all fired up when the person is ignorant enough to say such a thing at a party with otherwise intelligent adults present.

Several weeks ago, someone who knows me said “Catholics ruin everything,” and she didn’t mean it in a funny way.

At a wedding in June, someone in conversation with me blurted out “Those Jesuits were the ONLY ones who knew what the right thing was to do!” in regards to Vatican II reforms. It was strange and awkward.
 
Farsight001 said:
Some guy is currently trying to convince me that the Swiss guard is an army and that they are large enough to invade another country and are currently plotting to do so to Italy. 🤷
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Let me get this straight. A couple of hundred men can stand a chance against the 319,529 active personnel of the FFAA, not counting 41,867 reserves and 8300 deployed personnel.
Which reminds me of another time a guy ranted and raved about the huge military that the Vatican controls. It took me a while to get him to name this military. Turns out he was talking about the Church Militant. Since he was himself a Christian, I explained that technically, he was a Church Militant too. Never heard from him again.
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Don’t tell him about the Salvation Army. 😛
 
JoyIsLikeRain said:
Lately, I’ve gotten outright negativity. Not questions or comparisons.

It’s rather annoying; and more than once it’s happened in mixed-company at social gatherings that were otherwise pleasant and respectful affairs.

Friday: I was at a going-away part in the rec room of a high-rise condominium building. Somebody said “F*****ing Catholics,” which people noticed but tried to ignore. I brushed it aside; it’s not a teachable moment to get all fired up when the person is ignorant enough to say such a thing at a party with otherwise intelligent adults present.

Several weeks ago, someone who knows me said “Catholics ruin everything,” and she didn’t mean it in a funny way.

At a wedding in June, someone in conversation with me blurted out “Those Jesuits were the ONLY ones who knew what the right thing was to do!” in regards to Vatican II reforms. It was strange and awkward.
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I get this a lot even in the Vocaloid fanbase on FaceBook lately! D:
 
There were these to kids in my seventh hour asking me questions about the catholic church. Me being catholic, offered to answer their questions. here’s a few:

“Is it true that you pass around big jugs of wine and take big swigs of it at church?”

“When you go to the pope for confession, does he spank you afterwards?”

(These are actual things they said. There were more but i don’t remember them as well.)
 
Several barbs, but three stick out in my memory:

I had a girlfriend in high school in Oklahoma whose father was an ordained Baptist preacher. When I told him I had attended a Catholic elementary school he told her not to talk to me anymore,even though I was not a Catholic at that time. I guess he figured the nuns had got into my head and infected my brain . . . which they had.

I was invited to be a speaker at the national convention of Campus Crusade for Christ at their headquarters at Arrowhead Springs, CA. My subject was of a professional nature and non-religious. Later, when the program coordinator found I was Catholic, he told me bluntly that had he known I would not have been invited to speak.

My business partner, a Mormon bishop and stake president, asked me to interview another Mormon as a possible employee of our company. The fellow assumed I was also a Mormon.and during the interview launched into a tirade of anti-Catholic invective. I told him that his job qualifications were best suited for cleaning toilets and that job was filled.
 
aragonjohn1 said:
an atheist told me on Reddit that Catholics use Consecrated wine in blood transfusions
Shalom
God Bless
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Okay, if Catholics transfuse with wine, there must be a denomination that administers COFFEE in a similar manner!
The Navy runs on coffee, and so do I!
(Well, maybe not, but it makes a good line!) 😛
 
Haven’t really heard anything nutty. Most people who know I’m Catholic don’t comment on it much.

Sometimes my friends want me to do something with them and I tell them I have to go to mass and they ask "Why? Can’t you just be extra good this week? Or go twice next week? " 🤷

And this wasn’t me directly, but one of my friends works at a restaurant, and one person wanted to order fish. My friend replied that they didn’t have any fish that day, and the customer replied by saying “What would happen if I were Christian and had to eat fish on Sunday?”
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Faithdancer said:
It drives me batty when I say I’m Catholic and people say they are a Christian, as if the two terms are mutually exclusive. I’m teaching my kids in youth group how to deal with this- If someone asks if you are “Catholic or Christian?” just smile and say, “yes!” If they ask, “well, which one?” just smile and say, “definitely!”🙂
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This. 🙂
 
Well, I’m not a full-fledged Catholic yet, so I’ll give you one that I said just the other night. Now, keep in mind that I was speaking with a Priest who is the son of a convert from Protestantism, so he could relate to my background as a person with a lot of misconceptions, but I think even this one threw him. - I basically said that, given the amazing things that happened at and after the death of my Great-Aunt, who was a devout convert to Catholicism, I was shown/convinced that Catholics actually can go to Heaven. LOL! I think I’ll be leaving that one out of the program from now on - it didn’t go over humorously or as charming as I thought it would. :o
 
1- told I didn’t look Mexican or Italian, I said either dies the pope (baptist)

2- spit at and said here is your holy water (baptist)

3- asked for help with the passages in Daniel and revelations about the rapture since I knew the anti Christ (baptist)

4- asked why we crucify Christ is the mass when he can only die once (baptist)
 
Adamski said:
1- told I didn’t look Mexican or Italian, I said either dies the pope (baptist)

2- spit at and said here is your holy water (baptist)

3- asked for help with the passages in Daniel and revelations about the rapture since I knew the anti Christ (baptist)

4- asked why we crucify Christ is the mass when he can only die once (baptist)
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WOW:mad:
 
Farsight001 said:
Some guy is currently trying to convince me that the Swiss guard is an army and that they are large enough to invade another country and are currently plotting to do so to Italy. 🤷

Which reminds me of another time a guy ranted and raved about the huge military that the Vatican controls. It took me a while to get him to name this military. Turns out he was talking about the Church Militant. Since he was himself a Christian, I explained that technically, he was a Church Militant too. Never heard from him again.
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The Swiss Guard is part of the Swiss Army. 😃
 
DAML72 said:
Well, I’m not a full-fledged Catholic yet, so I’ll give you one that I said just the other night. Now, keep in mind that I was speaking with a Priest who is the son of a convert from Protestantism, so he could relate to my background as a person with a lot of misconceptions, but I think even this one threw him. - I basically said that, given the amazing things that happened at and after the death of my Great-Aunt, who was a devout convert to Catholicism, I was shown/convinced that Catholics actually can go to Heaven. LOL! I think I’ll be leaving that one out of the program from now on - it didn’t go over humorously or as charming as I thought it would. :o
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Hehe 😛
 
Here’s a conversation with a Baptist friend Saturday. It’s not anti-Catholic, but it’s funny.

Friend: So now that you’re Catholic are there any single Catholic men you can meet?
Me: Yes, they’re called priests.
Friend: hmmm well that’s not going to work.
Me: No, it’s not.

😃
 
maltmom said:
Here’s a conversation with a Baptist friend Saturday. It’s not anti-Catholic, but it’s funny.

Friend: So now that you’re Catholic are there any single Catholic men you can meet?
Me: Yes, they’re called priests.
Friend: hmmm well that’s not going to work.
Me: No, it’s not.

😃
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Ba-dum ching!
 
maltmom said:
Here’s a conversation with a Baptist friend Saturday. It’s not anti-Catholic, but it’s funny.

Friend: So now that you’re Catholic are there any single Catholic men you can meet?
Me: Yes, they’re called priests.
Friend: hmmm well that’s not going to work.
Me: No, it’s not.

😃
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I have an equally light hearted story. I was at work once, speaking to one of my coworkers and I can’t remember what I said, but it brought out the response “does the pope poop in the woods?” I was so bemused and shocked all at the same time, it was written all over my face, so he decided to explain. “You know, something really obvious? Like ‘is the pope Catholic?’ and ‘Does a bear poop in the woods?’”

I responded with "Oh, and bears are Catholic, then? And another coworker, without missing a beat as he was walking by says “Well, bears do eat a lot of fish.”
 
If you want to hear some bizzare notions about Catholicism live for a while in a small town that’s about 75% Mormon.and drive for an hour to Mass as I did. Great folks, pancake breakfast every Saturday in the park . . . but bring your own coffee. After a few months I got the drift that unless I became an LDS I would probably be happier somewhere else.
 
One of my friends was shocked when he found out the Newman Center has Mass on any days other than Sunday.

Another friend (possibly the same, I can’t remember :D) said Catholics weren’t Christian on grounds of us supposedly not reading the Bible.

Also, I just discovered this thread (yes I read it all) and the “I speak Catholic” comment from a while back makes me want to learn Latin/“Catholic”… so I am.
 
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