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Catholics Were you raised with a bias toward Protestants?
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No. I was not raised with a bias toward Protestants.

I was a mixed marriage child and my Catholic mother told me my father was “brought up differently” and I never really thought about it.

Also one of my aunts was a Protestant and raised her kids that way and I never even knew it until I was in my thirties.

I never heard my mother or other Catholic relatives make negative comments about Protestants.
 
I was raised what I would consider a nominal Protestant, and both of my parents are fallen-away Catholics. I probably had a bit of a bias against Catholicism, viewing the Church with all the typical, fundamentalist Protestant stereotypes: Catholics are obsessed with their sin, they’re afraid of God and fear keeps them in the Church, they never read the Bible, they worship Mary, they think they can go to heaven through their own works, etc. (I don’t mean to claim that all Protestants have these stereotypes, just for the record.)

As I grew older, and became an atheist, I was attracted to the Church because of her intellectual heritage, which certainly was much more robust than the Kenneth Copeland type of outlook I was raised with. 🙂
 
Raised Episcopalian, we weren’t overtly anti-anything. But, there was a subtle undertone of anti-Catholic bias whenever I showed an interest in anything Catholic: pictures, statues, books, movies, nuns, etc. (my mother was afraid I’d want to become a nun for some odd reason). When I liked something Catholic I was told "You don’t want that, it’s Catholic. When I watched “The Song of Bernadette” my mother felt the need to tell me “Mary is dead. If she saw anything it was probably an angel.” I never heard a negative word about any other religion or Christian ecclesial body from either my mom or dad. Sadly, I think that says a lot about their bias. But they knew no better and would never have overtly said or did anything against anyone for his faith, but the negative feelings were there all the same.
 
I was not raised with an intentional bias against Catholics, but I definitely acquired one. There are lots of cultural jokes about Catholics and I learned some serious misinformation in social studies even though I had Catholic teachers and peers.

(I am Catholic now, but was raised a “none.”)
 
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Catholics Were you raised with a bias toward Protestants?
Protestants Were you raised with a bias toward Catholics?
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I was raised a Protestant and had no bias toward Catholics.
I became a Catholic, I have no bias against Protestants.
There was a time that I had a bias against Mormons, but that has faded.
I have learned how to charitably disagree with teachings of other religious while still respecting and admiring people of all faiths.
 
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I was raised atheist but with a bias against Catholics.

The bias came from my father. He had no bias against any religious group except Catholics.

If people ask him what his religion is, he will say he is Muslim. However he is in practice an atheist.
 
I was raised with a bias toward Protestants only because the kids ganged up on us that went to Catholic school accusing us of getting too many days off, which we did. We never would think of having Protestant or even Jewish friends but that stopped when I began working and made friends with girls I worked with. My parents weren’t biased toward Protestants but they were anti Semite and biased toward blacks. At one time I was seriously dating a boy that was Lutheran and we almost got married. My parents were very concerned about that and thankfully we broke up. Looking back it would have been a disaster, but at the time I was very upset that they’d think this way. This was the beginning of Vatican 11 when we were encouraged to be friendly towards other faiths.
 
I was taught that Protestants were in error and that their Bible shouldn’t be read along with us being told that we will always be Catholic. We weren’t told they were bad people though.
 
Raised Catholic, with a Catholic mom and a Dad who was non-practicing anything (religion didn’t play a big part in his life) but had a Presbyterian-preacher grandpa. We weren’t particularly raised with any bias, just an acknowledgement that certain elements had been rejected, and that there was an incompleteness as a result of that. For example-- if we went to a friend’s Bible church and they had communion, they didn’t have Transubstantiation occur and they viewed communion as being a symbolic remembrance of something that had happened in the past, versus an active participation in something eternal. The friends who attended the Bible church would probably agree with that analysis, but would probably disagree with our perception of our sacrifice of the Mass.
 
Other than by name, I didn’t know the difference between either until I was grown.
 
Pax Christi and Merry Christmas!

Mom and two of us kids are Catholic; Dad and the other two are Protestant. So we think it normal that people go to different places of worship.

I was taught to extend this to Jews at one point and have never understood anti-Semetism.

God bless your New Year!
 
I was told by my father the prejudice against blacks in the South, and he would emotionally react when Texan football teams and the cheerleaders would start their braggadoccio.

I was never told about those in the South who are anti Catholic, so for our family, it was more about race.
 
Grew up as Catholic. Perhaps a strong influence on me as a kid in matters of religion was my catechism teacher. He was a great teacher as far as catechism was concerned. We also got to hear from him that Catholicism was the original Church set up by Jesus. Except for Orthodox which had apostolic succession, he likened Protestantism as branches from the Catholic tree. Thus they were not authentic unlike Catholicism. The fact that I remembered those words today perhaps a measure of how much those teaching somehow shaped my mind in my belief.
 
I was raised Protestant and there wasn’t much bias against Catholics. There was none in my family. We had Catholic neighbors. Their daughters were friends with my sisters. I fed their dog and collected their mail when they went out of town. I never thought much of them being Catholic. There was a subtle but very minor anti-Catholicism that pervades the local culture. If you go back to some of my ancestors they were very anti-Catholic back when much of the nation was.
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Raised Episcopalian, we weren’t overtly anti-anything. But, there was a subtle undertone of anti-Catholic bias whenever I showed an interest in anything Catholic: pictures, statues, books, movies, nuns, etc. (my mother was afraid I’d want to become a nun for some odd reason).
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That is interesting that your mother would think that. I think there is often a fear of people taking their faith to seriously.
 
Yes, I was raised with a bias towards Catholics, but it wasn’t overt. Really it was more like there are Christians and then there are Mormons and Catholics. For example I had friends that were Catholic, but anytime I would ask my mom about why they had crucifixes or pictures of the Sacred Heart she would get a funny look on her face and say something like “Oh they’re Catholic, but they’re still good people.”
 
Nope not at all. Was raised in the Catholic Church. Catechized, the Sacraments, regular Mass attendance… But I have always felt blessed to be raised with such an ecumenical open-minded spirit, one which has molded me into who I am today. And I thank God for that. I wouldn’t have had it any other way.
 
We were raised as nominal Protestants (Baptist Sunday School bus picked us up) and I attended public schools. I was always jealous of both the Lutheran and Catholic kids because they got to wear cool uniforms.

Yes, seriously I am crazy!

Blessings all!

Rita
 
My bias grew naturally as a result of talking to Protestants. Though I am more bias towards some protestants, like evangelicals. Less bias towards conservative Lutherans, Anglicans or Calvinists.
 
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