What bugs you when talking to non catholics?

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The way you have phrased the question, implies that Catholics are not Christian. There’s one thing right there.
 
The enormous amount of misinformation some have regarding teachings of the Church.
 
I don’t get ‘bugged by’ groups of people. Sometimes I get concerned, worried, hopeful, joyful, frustrated, elated, puzzled, sorrowful, but ‘bugged by’ to me implies that I’m reacting to some kind of labelled ‘wrong’ that I want to set right, like I’m ‘the Catholic order squad’ going off on all the ways that ‘non-Catholics’ get stuff wrong. It just sets the tone wrong from the start, I believe.
 
Being told we worship a “cookie god” instead of the real Jesus.

Being told my prayers are to Mary and not to God when I tell the person that I will pray to Jesus for them. (In each case, the person has requested prayers from all but then says all Catholic prayers are rebuked in the Name of Jesus Christ.)

Being told Catholics aren’t Christians.

Being told I had the real truth in Protestantism and that I left it for the fiery Hell that all Catholics are going to burn in because we worship a cookie god and not the real Jesus.

Being told I idolize Mary when I don’t.
 
There are non-Catholic Christians who would say your belief is wrong and then start to tell you what the right belief are, their belief. When you ask what are their church/denominations, they will not want to tell. Why are they refusing to tell what their church/denominations are? Are they afraid or ashamed or feeling vulnerable about their churches?
 
Yep, people tend to forget this is why early Christians were accused by Roman authorities of being cannibals. People died. A lot of people.
 
They talk to me as what they see a Catholic to be, which, believe me, is not what I am, have never been. They really stereotype, oversimplify. I find this in both nonCatholics who dislike and those who like the Catholic Church. Or the image of the Church I mean. Their image of the Church, not mine, nor how I view the Catholic Church, what it is to be Catholic, to be Christian. The latter is the lens through which I see my experience in the former. Usually this is the first thing you have to try and get a (hostile) nonCatholic to understand is even possible. For me this is the most important part, this is what you take with you, what my faith is all about.
 
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