What's the craziest Anti-Catholic whopper you've ever heard?

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jmcrae said:
The big flag and “Canada Post” label didn’t give it away? 😛
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It was just a big, red metal bin to me. I thought it was a bin because the sliding lid was so big and had a handle. I didn’t notice a flag or a ‘Canada Post’ label. Besides, a bin with a flag on it wouldn’t be unusual to me, given the love of flags in this part of the world, and ‘Canada Post’ could have been a joke. 😃
 
minkymurph said:
It was just a big, red metal bin to me. I thought it was a bin because the sliding lid was so big and had a handle. I didn’t notice a flag or a ‘Canada Post’ label. Besides, a bin with a flag on it wouldn’t be unusual to me, given the love of flags in this part of the world, and ‘Canada Post’ could have been a joke. 😃
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😃 I can just imagine the face of the poor postman who opened the post bin. :eek:
 
JustaServant said:
I remember that one.
But ahhh…why does the Pope have a fish on his head?
Where’s Monty Python when you need it? 😃
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Your wish is my command:

youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s

By the bye, I am still :eek:http://bestsmileys.com/surprised/2.gif http://bestsmileys.com/surprised/4....tp://bestsmileys.com/surprised/2.gif:eek:over this:
Kathy C:
I live in Oregon, and I’ve had two unrelated people tell me that Martin Luther decided to leave the Catholic Church when he was required to crawl up stairs covered with broken glass as a penance. I had quite an argument with one of them. I was horrified by the accusation, and my friend didn’t see why I should be. I’ve Googled “Martin Luther broken glass” at several different times over several years, and have never found any reference to this supposed incident. This must be a local fabrication that’s been spread because it sounds so right to those who hear it. It really ticks me off.
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Here’s one I’ve heard from a Protestant colleague when talking about contraception, and I paraphrase:

“The Church is opposed to all modern science and progress, particularly those of the last half-century, because they won’t allow their adherents to “rationally” plan their families through the Pill.” :rolleyes:

And she’s a student of a Western university, which any serious historian of academia will note is intellectual heir to the cathedral schools (oh, the irony). Not to mention the calendar we use, was a Church-sponsored initiative, or that the Vatican and the Church as a whole funds scientific research, and indeed has so since the Middle Ages. What’s worse, she refuses to reconsider her position, even when both her (Catholic) boyfriend and other (mixed-religion) colleagues point out otherwise - and she has the audacity to call us “slavishly worshipping the Virgin Mary” (then again, it’s par for the course in this part of the country for Protestants to say that).😦
 
Kay_Cee said:
Pagans use pine cones in their art.
Catholics use pine cones in their art.
Therefore, Catholics are pagans.

There actually is a website devoted to this nonsense: cuttingedge.org/articles/RC125.htm
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Good grief! They also say on that site, that the Salvation Army is Catholic. This must come as a considerable :rolleyes:surprise to General & Mrs William Booth.
There would appear to be a :takeoff::takeoff:looney born about every 15 seconds at :frighten:“Cutting Edge”…
 
When my daughter attended a government school here in South Africa some years ago, she was told by her religious class teacher (it was compulsory to attend) that Catholics ate fish on Fridays because the pope owned a fishing fleet and that the practice was but a few centuries old! (In fact it was mentioned in writings as early as around 90 AD.)
 
Kathy_C said:
I live in Oregon, and I’ve had two unrelated people tell me that Martin Luther decided to leave the Catholic Church when he was required to crawl up stairs covered with broken glass as a penance. I had quite an argument with one of them. I was horrified by the accusation, and my friend didn’t see why I should be. I’ve Googled “Martin Luther broken glass” at several different times over several years, and have never found any reference to this supposed incident. This must be a local fabrication that’s been spread because it sounds so right to those who hear it. It really ticks me off.
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The closest I have been able to find online is this:
ianpaisley.org/article.asp?ArtKey=unholy
It’s from a sermon by:rolleyes: Ian Paisley…which is pretty much all I had to see to go :eek::eek::cool:.
No broken glass…but climbing stairs on his knees. (I suspect that the Ellen White connection is a pretty good guess as to the story; heaven knows she saw enough “visions” to invent all sorts of stuff. (Too bad she didn’t put her energies into, say, :cool:improving the mousetrap, and :cool:inventing the eggbeater…).🤷
 
Zooey said:
The closest I have been able to find online is this:
ianpaisley.org/article.asp?ArtKey=unholy
It’s from a sermon by:rolleyes: Ian Paisley…which is pretty much all I had to see to go :eek::eek::cool:.
No broken glass…but climbing stairs on his knees. (I suspect that the Ellen White connection is a pretty good guess as to the story; heaven knows she saw enough “visions” to invent all sorts of stuff. (Too bad she didn’t put her energies into, say, :cool:improving the mousetrap, and :cool:inventing the eggbeater…).🤷
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i have to say this is a hilarious thread!

20 years ago in high school i invented the solar flashlight… it was a flop
 
I heard a good one today.

Catholics read the Bible in a different way to Protestants.

Wasn’t quite sure how to respond to that one!
 
minkymurph said:
I heard a good one today.

Catholics read the Bible in a different way to Protestants.

Wasn’t quite sure how to respond to that one!
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Yes, we let the Magisterium do the work then we read it. The protestants read it and if it is a new view they start a new church.
 
jimpres said:
Yes, we let the Magisterium do the work then we read it. The protestants read it and if it is a new view they start a new church.
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:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

If I was a mean spirited person, I could have said, ‘what’s a Protestant way of reading the Bible?’ Since when did Protestants read the Bible the same way as each other? There are also many things Catholics and some Protestant denominations agree with each other on.

But I didn’t.:angel1:
 
minkymurph said:
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

If I was a mean spirited person, I could have said, ‘what’s a Protestant way of reading the Bible?’ Since when did Protestants read the Bible the same way as each other? There are also many things Catholics and some Protestant denominations agree with each other on.

But I didn’t.:angel1:
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True there are many protestants who agree with the Catholics on many things. And we see many of them convert, ala Marcus Grodi. And some know scriptures a lot better then many Catholics. We are all human and very prone to sin. But I will say there is only one church created/established by God.
 
The craziest anti-Catholic whopper I’ve ever heard? Two come to mind immediately.
  1. The DaVinci Code.
  2. I was outside one day when a couple of Jehovah’s Witnesses were canvassing the neighborhood, and they considered me a prime candidate for “saving,” and began to preach to me. I was gardening at the time, and did not see them coming, otherwise I would have exited, stage right! I told them that I a) was Catholic, and b) wasn’t interested. What a mistake! They began preaching about the Great Whore of Babylon, etc, etc, and when I got up to go in the house, followed me to the door and were preaching through the door even when I shut it!
No offense intended, but don’t folks like that read ANY other book of the Bible than Revelations?
 
odile53 said:
No offense intended, but don’t folks like that read ANY other book of the Bible than Revelations?
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Hey I take offense at that!
Oh wait, you talking about those end-times nuts and not guys like me who just read Revelations for apocalyptic references (ala Neon Genesis Evangelion)… right? 😛
 
When I was a teen-ager and home alone some JV’s came to the door and wanted to preach to me. I politely told them I was Catholic and they turned around and high-tailed it down the street. Maybe they thought that I was the “Whore of Babylon”!!! LOL
 
bona_fides said:
The Baptists pulp-fiction Trail of Tears was a desperate attempt to revise history and give the Baptists something with more than a few hundred years of legacy and history to point to.
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That’s the Trail of Blood. The Trail of Tears was when the newly minted Americans were shoving the Indians…er …Native Americans, rather, off to the west.
As they say “to be Protestant is to be ignorant of history”.
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“To be deep in history is to cease to be protestant.” from Cardinal Newman’s Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine.
 
tiffinwood said:
When I was a teen-ager and home alone some JV’s came to the door and wanted to preach to me. I politely told them I was Catholic and they turned around and high-tailed it down the street. Maybe they thought that I was the “Whore of Babylon”!!! LOL
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