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

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  1. Growing up in the LDS church in Australia, In regards to the “great apostasy” we were taught that after the true gospel fell away from the earth & the Catholic church became corrupt. To punish us, God kept quiet, so there weren’t many medical, scientific, technological advances until Joseph smith restored the true church which then God lifted the ‘dark ages’ from us so society could move forward…
  2. Sunday school teacher: can you see that the Catholic pope has a walking stick & he’s all sickly in his old age? He looks like he’s about to fall over! Now look at our prophet Gordon B Hinkley, he’s so articulate & looks so well for his age, no walking stick… That’s a sign that We are the true church, God keeps our (then) prophet well…
 
Living in south Texas we live in a community comprised mostly of Mexican- Americans. Well, my daughter was talking with a young African-American gentleman in class one day about religion.( I believe that he is Baptist) When she told him she was Catholic he just gave her a look and said “But you arent Mexican” He is a comical young man so Im pretty sure it was somewhat tongue in cheek. 🙂
 
My devout LDS mum told me once that the Catholics have it wrong, the sign of the cross was not a true Christian symbolic gesture, that it was the sign the Jews made in the crowd to say ‘yes, crucify him!’… :confused:
 
My grandparents married. Grandma was southern Baptist. Grandpa was catholic. The Baptist side of the family. Had to ask my catholic great grandparents if the priest slept with the bride the first night.
 
At work, someone approached and asked if I was “cat-lick” and then asked - why do you cat-lix worship the whore of babylon?

another time a work acquaintance referred to the Host as - that cookie y’all eat
 
runjohnnyrun said:
At work, someone approached and asked if I was “cat-lick” and then asked - why do you cat-lix worship the whore of babylon?

another time a work acquaintance referred to the Host as - that cookie y’all eat
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Sorry for the stupid remarks you had to endure. My first thought was "the guy’s got to be living in the so called Bible Belt:(
 
runjohnnyrun said:
At work, someone approached and asked if I was “cat-lick” and then asked - why do you cat-lix worship the whore of babylon?

another time a work acquaintance referred to the Host as - that cookie y’all eat
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I’ll bet that most people who use the phrase “Whore of Babylon” have no idea what the term even means. :rolleyes:
 
Just had my first anti-Catholic comments made to me since converting a week ago. They commented that Catholic are told by their priests not to read the bible! Such misunderstanding.

mlz
 
EGP said:
When my exhusbands extended family found out that I was Catholic, they all snickered followed by saying “stand up, sit down”.
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Same one I’ve heard; Catholic (snicker snicker) Sit stand, KNEEL, sit stand kneel.

🙂
 
mlz said:
Just had my first anti-Catholic comments made to me since converting a week ago. They commented that Catholic are told by their priests not to read the bible! Such misunderstanding.

mlz
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Bible? Whaaatttt? Good grief.
 
I’ve heard we don’t read the Bible; but that our priest say we can’t. Gee…
a new one for me.
 
MaryT777 said:
I’ve heard we don’t read the Bible; but that our priest say we can’t. Gee…
a new one for me.
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In my protestant home group I was told the same thing, Sometimes I think it is actually a good thing if people dont read their bible because the novice will draw out some really bad heresies. The bible should only be read in the context of good catechism and tradition.
 
MaryT777 said:
I’ve heard we don’t read the Bible; but that our priest say we can’t. Gee…
a new one for me.
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Yep! And when someone says something similiar I usually ask:

How often do you read the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights? Are you not allowed to read them?

Foolishness!
 
Nicea325 said:
Yep! And when someone says something similiar I usually ask:

How often do you read the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights? Are you not allowed to read them?

Foolishness!
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LOL…good point; I may use that 🙂
 
MaryT777 said:
I’ve heard we don’t read the Bible; but that our priest say we can’t. Gee…
a new one for me.
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Yes, I even had a “catholic” friend who does “protestant” Bible studies say to me that if it wasn’t for the “protestants” we never would have our “own” Bibles, impliying that the Catholic church did not want us to read the Word of God. So ignorant! Whats sad is that she actually believes everything they tell her! Pray for her to have the courage to learn the truth about her Catholic faith and that the Holy Spirit will infuse her with the gift of courage to defend her Catholic faith! Amen.
 
Actually, part of this is a nutty thing that I (as a Catholic) said, and the nutty response from the offended Protestant.

I was 16 and made the mistake of buying a New King James version of the Bible 3 years prior, not knowing there were differences between versions of the Bible. When I to the Christian bookstore for a New American Bible so I could get the apocrypha texts, I had to get help from one of the Protestant employees since there were only 4 copies of the version I wanted, and they were all hidden at the bottom of the shelf. Since I was frustrated that there were different versions of the Bible, the following exchange occurred:

ME: I am curious, why are there books missing from the non-Catholic versions of the Bible?
(The lady paused for a moment before answering in a passive-aggressive manner).
LADY: That is because those books ARE NOT inspired by the Holy Spirit!

After that, I checked my wording with the differences between Protestants and Catholics!
 
I am in Akron, the business casual of the Bible Belt. When the rubber factories took off, war in Europe caused a drastic reduction in immigrants (or so I have been told) so the companies went to Appalachia for workers. It was said the 3 R’s stood for readin’ ritin’ and the route to akron.

The cookie reference - I was in Salt Lake City for a conference, and Sunda was booked solid, so I wne to vigil Mass at the Cathedral. Some of my co-workers decided to come along, two Mormons a Methodist, and a lady whose husband was a Church of God preacher from Mississippi. “we’ll just watch and do what you do, but fon’t worry we won’t go up and take that cookie y’all eat”👍
 
Hellenised said:
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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nickybr38 said:
How so?

Examples?
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The Eucharist. Christ said in the Gospel of John, chapter six. “I am the bread from heaven. You must eat my flesh and drink my blood”.
We take this literally. The Eucharist is the flesh and blood of Christ. Every Protestant denomination I know of insists it’s “spiritual” or “symbolic”.
 
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