After reading the whole thread, this is all the same things that I was taught about the Catholic Church from the time I was about 2, and in Sunday School, not nursery. It’s amaizing how righteous they think they are, how offten they contradict themselves, and how they just basically disregard all the Scripture that they don’t agree with. A lot of the Baptist, (I’m not 100% sure as for the rest, but I get the feeling that they’re the same way) just compleatly disregard the entire Old Testament, except for Psalms, Proverebs, and whatever other one’s that perticular pastor actually likes. Usually just the ones with prophesys about Jesus in them. My mother is really big on puting down the Catholic Church. When I told her I was thinking about joining, she retorted with all Catholics go to hell, and if you join them you will, too. I told her I can’t posibly go to hell, I’m Saved, and that’s something that never goes entirely away. She said it does after you join the Catholic Church. Also, here’s one I haven’t seen mentioned on here, “the Catholic Chuch is a cult.” She just keeps reapeating that over and over… kinda sad… if she wasn’t so abusive I might feel more sorry for her… So I went and got her her book on cults, (it has a list of them, & it’s by a Baptist preacher) and guess what? Catholic isn’t in it! She said it was in a different book. I asked her which one, she said she didn’t remember. Then she handed me a pamplet by John R. Rice that’s a published letter he wote to a Catholic man, listing all the reasons the Church is against the Bible, etc. I read it (again, she made me read it after my very Catholic/misslead [she practicaly worshiped Mary…
] grandmother died when I was 13) and I found a poor soul seriously misslead as to the teachings of the Church, with a strong hatred of it, who while trying to prove his point, couldn’t help but contradict himself over, and over again. If anything, it just made me pitty Baptists and such who actually believe everything he says. I told my mother he contradicts himself, and she retorted with “so your saying the Bible contradicts itself?” And that’s what a lot of them will say when you tell them they’re favorite anti-Catholic preacher contradicts himself. They poor misslead people seem to think that anything a preacher says from the pulpit is the Word of God, when infact, a lot of it actually doesn’t have any Biblical basis. They all just assume it’s in the Bible. And I know that Baptists are taught to studdy they’re Bibles, heck, mine’s starting to fall apart after 3 years! But what they’re not taught is how to interpret them properly. They don’t ask God to show them what the text means. They ask they’re pastor to tell them. I was forchinate enought to have a youth pastor (Pastor Dave) when I was in highschool that taught us from the Bible, everything he taught, could be found in the Bible. Infact, he sounded a LOT like all the Priests I’ve heard. He told us that inorder to get the proper meaning, you have to pray to God so He can show it to you. Also, he used more of the Old Testament than anyother preacher I’d ever known/heard. He actually wasn’t predjudiced again the Church, he just had a personal dislike of it, which he didn’t wanna pass down to anyone else. God bless him… Anyway, I’m gonna end this now. I’m very L-O-N-G winded, incase you didn’t notice…
