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

[andremiguel]

People who know I am religious tend to think everything I do is related to a rule. If I don’t drink alcohol, they think I’m following a rule. It just doesn’t occur to them that I just choose to not drink because I don’t enjoy it. Another time someone at work was selling raffle tickets. I just didn’t feel like buying any so I declined. Another coworker explained to everyone present, “she’s religious, so she’s not allowed to gamble.” So the pattern that I see is that people tend to think Catholics are supposed to blindly follow a bunch of rules and that we’re not supposed to think or make decisions for ourselves.

This is funny. Look, the coworker said “religious” not “Catholic”. My idea and I may be wrong is that it is the Protestant and some denominations more than others that are more “Puritan”. I have an idea of Catholics enjoying life, I may be wrong…

 

[andremiguel]

Your computer is fine. Don’t you understand God is trying to protect you?

Bad Boy…

 

[Peter_J]

Another funny one---- Baptist friend said John the Baptist started the Baptist religion. Needless to say I said , I don’t really think so : because the Catholics made him a Saint ! St John the Baptist!!

I too have heard a Baptist claim that St. John the Baptist was a Baptist.

You should show your friend the Apostles’ Creed

… I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church …

 

[maltmom]

I too have heard a Baptist claim that St. John the Baptist was a Baptist.

You should show your friend the Apostles’ Creed

I had heard that a number of times over the years. While growing up we said the Apostles’ Creed every week. In our version it had the little c as in catholic…universal church.

 

[Conor7]

I’m not Catholic, but I wanted to share two silly things that have stuck in my mind and make me laugh whenever I think of them:

1. A Catholic friend attended my confirmation (I know that’s a Catholic no no, but she was being a supportive friend.) Afterwards, she turned to me and said, "You Anglicans have no fear of God, do you? I asked what she meant and she said, “You guys sing those hymns like you’ve been cast in Turandot.”
2. A coworker and I were ordering Chinese and she asked me if I wanted an egg roll. I asked her if they contained shrimp and she replied, “Oh, I nearly forgot, is it Lent already?” “No,” I replied. “I’m allergic to shellfish and it’s August.”

 

[IanGE]

I too have heard a Baptist claim that St. John the Baptist was a Baptist.

You should show your friend the Apostles’ Creed

I thought we usually say the Nicene Creed. Not the one written at Nicaea in 326 (?) but as amended in around 338 to include reference to the Holy Spirit at the insistence of Basil of Nicodemia.
PS As a child I was petrified of having anything to do with ghosts, Holy or no. Much happier when they switched to ‘Holy Spirit’!

 

[Peter_J]

I thought we usually say the Nicene Creed.

That has it too:
*And I believe in One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
*

 

[rfournier103]

My girlfriend is Protestant… and I think all of these things are “nutty.”

1. Your Church thinks it’s bigger than God, and Jesus.
2. You are praying to statues.
3. Why pray to Mary? She’s dead.
4. Jesus loves EVERYONE. He even let that whore wash his feet, and I can’t recieve Communion???
5. The Vatican is it’s own country? That doesn’t help your case at all.

I think those are all pretty astonishing.

 

[MrsE1022]

I’m not Catholic, but I wanted to share two silly things that have stuck in my mind and make me laugh whenever I think of them:

1. A Catholic friend attended my confirmation (I know that’s a Catholic no no, but she was being a supportive friend.) Afterwards, she turned to me and said, "You Anglicans have no fear of God, do you? I asked what she meant and she said, “You guys sing those hymns like you’ve been cast in Turandot.”
2. A coworker and I were ordering Chinese and she asked me if I wanted an egg roll. I asked her if they contained shrimp and she replied, “Oh, I nearly forgot, is it Lent already?” “No,” I replied. “I’m allergic to shellfish and it’s August.”

Why would that be a Catholic no no!!??? That’s silly, we are encouraged to participate in other churches to love and support our family and friends. We are no supossed to receive communion, but I was the Maid of honor at my best friends Episcopal wedding and have participated in many church functions with her dad’s church (hes a priest) and many other churches with the rest of my family.

 

[Rhuarc]

My girlfriend is Protestant… and I think all of these things are “nutty.”

1. Your Church thinks it’s bigger than God, and Jesus.
2. You are praying to statues.
3. Why pray to Mary? She’s dead.
4. Jesus loves EVERYONE. He even let that whore wash his feet, and I can’t recieve Communion???
5. The Vatican is it’s own country? That doesn’t help your case at all.

I think those are all pretty astonishing.

If she still has those thoughts after you have explained things to her, then me thinks that you 'ought to find a new woman.

 

[Tyuiop411]

I thought we usually say the Nicene Creed. Not the one written at Nicaea in 326 (?) but as amended in around 338 to include reference to the Holy Spirit at the insistence of Basil of Nicodemia.
PS As a child I was petrified of having anything to do with ghosts, Holy or no. Much happier when they switched to ‘Holy Spirit’!

In High School I had an atheist friend that adamantly believed in ghosts (funny that ghosts were okay with her but God wasn’t). One day she asked me if Catholics believed in ghosts, I quickly replied “no” to which she said “Your full of **** you say Holy Ghost every time you pray so of course you believe in ghosts”. Even though I explained that “Ghost” there was just a use of older English when “Ghost” still meant spirit; she still thinks to this day that all Catholics believe in, and worship, a literal ghost.

 

[Erich]

My Mom and I were in the park one day. I was such a sweet Protestant child. I ran up to a nun (in full habit) and asked her in she’s was an “onion.” My Mom was horrified. She just laughed. She sweetly told me that she’s a nun, not an onion.

At least you didn’t ask her if she was a witch… which is what one little girl asked her mother when she saw a nun in full habit.

 

[Erich]

Lutherans would bring their “hot dish” or possibly a jello mould.

Or rolls or a salad

 

[Peter_J]

My Mom and I were in the park one day. I was such a sweet Protestant child. I ran up to a nun (in full habit) and asked her in she’s was an “onion.”

I had to think about that a little “a nun” … “onion”. They do sound a bit alike.:curtsey:

 

[Happy_Convert]

So a guy in my office (an evangelical) is becoming a Mason, and there begins a discussion between my supervisor (a Catholic and member, as I am, of the Knights of Columbus). Busy doing something known as WORK I was only half listening to their conversation.
Then I heard the evangelical say “the Knights of Columbus has all kinds of strange rituals from what I hear”. My sarcastic nature aroused I replied (without moving my eyes from my computer), “yeah, we sacrifice and eat puppies” never dreaming anyone would take what I said seriously.
I was wrong.
My young female (non-Catholic) co-worker behind me said with a serious look on her face: “REALLY!?!”
Seeing an opportunity for a little fun I replied “oh yeah, nothing like a puppy on a spit roasted over an open fire, almost as good as newborn kittens”.

People are fascinated with things they do not understand and, as a result will believe almost anything about it because of thier inability of accept something they have no experience with.

Spit-roasted puppies and kittens are delicious, of course, but I prefer deep-fried baby chicks! Sorry, couldn’t resist!

 

[maltmom]

I had to think about that a little “a nun” … “onion”. They do sound a bit alike.:curtsey:

Add a slight Cajun accent and you’ve got it.

 

[Acerunner]

My brother started ranting the other say about how catholics believe in ask these different angels. I quietly reminded him that he was Christian *** elk and that the methodist church teaches that angels exist too. He denied it, of course, so I asked him “who announced to the shepherds that Jesus was born?” He didn’t say much after that.

 

[IanGE]

Recently I met two old (I’m 76!) school friends, a C of E and a Muslim. The CofE said, “I know as much about the Catholic religion as you, Ian”. The Muslim agreed. “Oh yeah, why?” They answered “when you had Catechism classes in our Catholic School, we weren’t obliged to join in. But we weren’t allowed to go out and play either; oh no, those crafty Nuns made us sit at the back and we could read comics or whatever. But kids being kids, what the heck, of course we listened to every word…”

 

[Kristin234]

That is very commendable. How many times have you read the entire Bible? Do much do you read per day? How do you chose what to read?

I read every day. It is rather haphazard. Someone will mention a verse here I will look it up. I have read the entire New Testament and working on the Old.

I have read the whole Bible before but I did not really pay close attention to it. Now, I read a chapter a day and I memorize verses from the chapter, highlight things, make notes, and meditate on it. I usually spend two hours out of the day doing this.

I believe that if you want to know God and have a relationship with Him you must be willing to read the book that He left for us. It is after all God’s book to us.

 

[Reuben_J]

I have read the whole Bible before but I did not really pay close attention to it. Now, I read a chapter a day and I memorize verses from the chapter, highlight things, make notes, and meditate on it. I usually spend two hours out of the day doing this.

I believe that if you want to know God and have a relationship with Him you must be willing to read the book that He left for us. It is after all God’s book to us.

Spot on, at least to my thinking. You must read the whole Bible at least once in your life. It is quite a task considering how thick a Bible is. Once you have an overview of it and know where the books come from, then you will have better idea about the context in what the verse says.

If you go for daily mass, then the mass readings are good tool to cover the Bible in its entirety and it take shorter period too - two years. If you do that for ten years, you are going about the Bible for five times already.