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

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Lost_Sheep said:
No doubt because Let It Be contains the line “Mother Mary comes to me.” Thing is, John Lennon was referring to “Mary” as in “Mary Jane” as in marijuana.
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Let it Be was written by Paul McCartney. His mother was named Mary. I read somewhere that it was written for her. As a Protestant I was told that it was a reference to the BVM b/c he was baptized Catholic.
 
Whenever an evangelical-type asks me if I’ve found Jesus my standard reply is “I didn’t know he was lost.”
 
Andinell said:
From a former friend: “Anyone that takes their child inside a Catholic church should have CPS called on them and have the child taken away” This same person actually did report me to CPS, and told them all kinds of lies, like the house was filthy, I was starving my son, i wasn’t changing his diaper, he’s jaundiced, blahblahblah.
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I’m sorry.
Too many years behind the badge and my knee jerked when I read this.
I automatically started to compose a post recommending legal charges, both criminal and civil, be brought against this individual, hit them so hard with the sledge hammer of justice that they’ll be driven into the ground like a fence post –
Then I realized this was a knee jerk reaction, and you know the situation far better than I, ande maybe I should just keep-a my beeg-a mouth shut.
“A closed mouth gathers no foot,” and all that.
 
Well put, (name removed by moderator). Very well put.
My response to a similar situation was less polite.
I stopped and looked the man in the eye and said quietly, “My shadow will not darken your doorstep again,” I executed a crisp military about-face, paced off on the left, and never went back.
No man is so rich that he can afford to throw away a friend, and I figured if he wanted to throw me away, he was not a friend to start with.
Back when I was young, and my back was stiffened with pride …
 
I was at a client’s house and she said “Are you Christian?” I said yeah. She asked me what denomination and I said Catholic. She said “Catholic ***and ***Christian? Is that like being a Christian Jew?”
 
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LadyJulian said:
I just remembered another one. It still makes me laugh.

My mom (Protestant) used to work at Vocational Rehabilitation, trying to find jobs for people with disabilities. Her boss was a great and extremely funny guy named Lewis (also Protestant.)

Anyway…Voc Rehab had so many clients they needed extra space to meet them all, esp. in a part of the county known as “The Valley”. Most of the people who lived in “The Valley” were extremely poor, extremely conservative, extremely Protestant (fundamentalist actually) and for the most part, very poorly educated. I’m not saying that to be mean, just to sketch out the background. But in “The Valley”, of all places, was a Catholic convent…and when the sisters heard that meeting places for Voc Rehab clients were desperately needed in their area, they offered available conference rooms in the convent. Nothing to do with religion, of course, they made no efforts to interfere or to convert any of Lewis’s clients, they were just offering the available space in an effort to help out. Lewis gratefully accepted the sisters’ kind offer and began meeting local clients there.

Until the day he met a particularly anti-Catholic client who had arrived to find, to his horror and outrage, that he was in a Catholic convent. He met Lewis in the parking lot and Lewis said the man was so angry he was afraid he might actually get attacked. But Lewis is extremely good with ppl and he finally got the man calmed down enough to ask him why he was so upset. The conversation went something like this:

Lewis: So what’s the problem?
Client: They’re Catholics–NUNS!!!
Lewis: But why are you so upset? It’s just a meeting place.
Client: NOOOO, Mr. Lewis, you don’t get it! It’s a trick!
Lewis: Ahhh…what kind of trick exactly?
Client: Don’t you know anything about these Catholics? They want to turn us all into Catholics like them!!
Lewis: No, they’re just offering us a place to meet. Why? Has anyone been talking to you about converting?
Client: No, they’re too smart for that. They’re sneaky. They get you here thinking it’s just a meeting place, but it’s all a trick. Cause once you’re here, one of those nuns comes out, says some “mumbo-jumbo” over you, and turns you into a Catholic!!

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Forkfoot said:
I was at a client’s house and she said “Are you Christian?” I said yeah. She asked me what denomination and I said Catholic. She said “Catholic ***and ***Christian? Is that like being a Christian Jew?”
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They would have ceased to have been a client at that moment.
 
LOL I wish. I was actually doing healthcare for her father; I just said “client” cuz it was easier.
 
I know an evangelical Anglican who believes that Catholics don’t think Jesus rose from the dead - that’s why we show him hanging dead on the cross. I wonder how they get these ideas.
 
Gerardus said:
I know an evangelical Anglican who believes that Catholics don’t think Jesus rose from the dead - that’s why we show him hanging dead on the cross. I wonder how they get these ideas.
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Sounds like maybe a misunderstanding of a poor explanation as to why Catholics emphasize the Crucifixion more than Protestants do. In general you see a lot more risen Christs in Protestant art and decoration than crucifixes.
 
I was visiting the home of a Protestant friend during college in the early 1970’s, and when the mother found out I was Catholic, she said helpfully to her daughter, “You should introduce her to our neighbor, she’s Catholic.” As if of course, I would have to know everyone who was Catholic, or as if all Catholics have to meet each other"

Her father knowingly said, “Catholic, eh? I hear you people are FINALLY going to be saying the full Lord’s prayer.” (It was during that period that “For the kingdom, the power” and so forth was added after the Lord’s Prayer at mass.)

I didn’t bother telling him that “For the kingdom,” etc., was a later made-up addition in some Protestant Bibles." But I DID remark that I really didn’t need to meet the Catholic neighbor.
 
There were very few Catholics in my home town so feel free to laugh all you want at my ignorance. I honestly thought that all Catholics went around seeing images of Mary or Jesus in their French toast, PBJ, lint traps, dirty mirrors, you get the picture (or do you?) lol…
I also thought that holy water was alcohol since the few Catholics I knew growing up seemed to enjoy it so well. I wasn’t sure what it was for but they always seemed to be happy!
The one thing Christians of all denominations have in common is the fact that we give each other plenty of things to laugh at.
You guys have a great day and remember that life is short so love and laugh often.

Lance:D
 
JESUS CHRIST is absolutely saddened about people fighting over each other just because they have different opinions, views, or interpretations! God created us all differently to be unique. Not to fight off. So the only thing I could say is, RESPECT. And there will be more peace these days. :o
 
This one is actually not such a “nutty” reply as it is an annoying one. Whenever I tell a Non-Catholic that I am not willing to miss mass in order to attend something else they have in mind for me, they always say, “Don’t you know that God won’t punish you if you miss church?”
 
nuttiest thing? an armenian apostolic christian told me on the many alleged crimes of the catholic church towards armenians that “the pope’s army crucified thousands of people!”
 
Actually, JustMyself777, if you mean we should all behave as if having all these different beliefs about Christianity is just fine, I respectfully disagree. What saddens Jesus Christ is how his body, the Church, has been fractured through erroneous beliefs. Catholicism alone possesses the fullness of the truth, and Catholics are correct to affirm that, respectfully.

Two contrary things cannot both be simultaneously true - only one of them is. God did not create us to have unique beliefs about Him, He created all of us to worship Him in Spirit and in TRUTH.

It cannot be simultaneously true, for instance, that Mary is the Mother of God, and that she is not the Mother of God, depending on what someone believes.

I can decide that there is no China, but the existence of China does not depend on my belief about it. I can maintain that snow is red and when it hits the ground it is hot, but believing this does not make it true, and someone is not out of line to try respectfully to disabuse me of this notion.

Now, if people are going to be rude, sacastic, mocking or snide in their speech or treatment of others, that’s certainly not right. But calmly affirming what is true is certainly right.
 
Useless_Servant said:
Actually, JustMyself777, if you mean we should all behave as if having all these different beliefs about Christianity is just fine, I respectfully disagree. What saddens Jesus Christ is how his body, the Church, has been fractured through erroneous beliefs. Catholicism alone possesses the fullness of the truth, and Catholics are correct to affirm that, respectfully.

Two contrary things cannot both be simultaneously true - only one of them is. God did not create us to have unique beliefs about Him, He created all of us to worship Him in Spirit and in TRUTH.

It cannot be simultaneously true, for instance, that Mary is the Mother of God, and that she is not the Mother of God, depending on what someone believes.

I can decide that there is no China, but the existence of China does not depend on my belief about it. I can maintain that snow is red and when it hits the ground it is hot, but believing this does not make it true, and someone is not out of line to try respectfully to disabuse me of this notion.

Now, if people are going to be rude, sacastic, mocking or snide in their speech or treatment of others, that’s certainly not right. But calmly affirming what is true is certainly right.
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I reach for the guidiance of Our Lord in these matters taken too seriuosly “Mark 9 38-40
" John said to him Teacher we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he didnot follow us.” Jesus replied" Do not prevent him". There is no one who can preform a mighty deed in my name and still speak ill of me."
I believe we should save our energy for our similarities not our differences Dividing us is how the evil one works.
 
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