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

[lhk0pd]

I grew up around all those nutty ideas and listened nightly to Herbert W Armstrong and my GrandMother would also spend many Hours listening to the Radio station out of Del Rio Texas.My conversion was a fairly long process as due to my upbringing if i saw a Priest i actually saw the Devil and all Nuns were happy Hitting Children in the school room because they were so angry. But the Best one i still sort of recall was a Claim that at a Convent in Canada dead babies given birth by Nuns were buried in the wall that surrounded the Convent. I believe look or Life Magazine even had pictures of it along with the story. I will add this in that when i was growing up the Radical Protestants were the least educated and nost Judgemental of any group i can recall. My Aunt used to make her kids go to Church every Wednsday nite and would make them go down every time to get saved and they did as she brought the strap with her in case they changed there minds. None of her Kids once they left home attended Church or seemed to want any thing to do with Church…

 

[richsmith]

Ever watched the children’s program, “Hocus Pocus”? The popular meaning of the term is a reference to magical stuff. The origin of this name is a spoof on the Latin sacred words of Consecration, Hoc Est Corpus Meun, this is my body. Anti-Catholics invented this term to demean the Eucharist, and using it for the name of a children’s TV show is outrageous. I wonder whqt the reaction would be if a TV show demeaned some words taken from the Qu’ran.

 

[UnityofTrinity]

Ever watched the children’s program, “Hocus Pocus”? The popular meaning of the term is a reference to magical stuff. The origin of this name is a spoof on the Latin sacred words of Consecration, Hoc Est Corpus Meun, this is my body. Anti-Catholics invented this term to demean the Eucharist, and using it for the name of a children’s TV show is outrageous. I wonder whqt the reaction would be if a TV show demeaned some words taken from the Qu’ran.

I don’t know if you even know this but ever heard of the “Satanic Verses controversy”? It was written as a novel but has very offensive ideas about Muhammad and Islam, so the Muslims in Britain persecuted him and threatened to kill him many times. The relationship between Britain and Iran closed, all the British hostages in Iran was threatened to be killed. lots of people that was involved with the project of publishing to translating it to other languages were killed. The author himself had to hide in super protection of the British police department for 10 years

I can’t imagine what Christians gonna do if we act like that. Imagine us trying to kill Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitches, Dan Brown…, wow that actually gonna be a very, very large number to kill. Thank God, we only contest those ideas intellectually and not violently like so many Islamic fundamentalists.

 

[tiffinwood]

Biggest whopper I’ve ever heard was when a co-worker asked me about the tunnels that connected the rectory with the convent and the cemetary where the babies of nuns were buried. He was in many ways an annoying idiot so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised and laughed at him.

 

[tqualey]

Hi, lhk0pd,

Now, you brought back some very fond memories… While I don’t recall hearing old Herbert W … I do vividly recall his son, Garner Ted in his radio show, “The Wooooooorld Tomorrow!!” My fondness for the son’s radio version of religion and the End Times was purely selfish … I used to drive a bit when I was in college … and, this guy would keep me awake with all of his assorted ‘truths’ and anti-Catholic distortions! He and his father had a major falling out (wonder if he forsaw that…)

Thanks for the memories - it has been many years, and I still remember talking to radio abut this guy! :

God bless

I grew up around all those nutty ideas and listened nightly to Herbert W Armstrong and my GrandMother would also spend many Hours listening to the Radio station out of Del Rio Texas.My conversion was a fairly long process as due to my upbringing if i saw a Priest i actually saw the Devil and all Nuns were happy Hitting Children in the school room because they were so angry. But the Best one i still sort of recall was a Claim that at a Convent in Canada dead babies given birth by Nuns were buried in the wall that surrounded the Convent. I believe look or Life Magazine even had pictures of it along with the story. I will add this in that when i was growing up the Radical Protestants were the least educated and nost Judgemental of any group i can recall. My Aunt used to make her kids go to Church every Wednsday nite and would make them go down every time to get saved and they did as she brought the strap with her in case they changed there minds. None of her Kids once they left home attended Church or seemed to want any thing to do with Church…

 

[Janine_Therese]

I grew up in a really fundamentalist, really Chick, really Southern Baptist town in Oklahoma, and a protestant friend told me that Catholics “made up” the Apocrypha like Joseph Smith made up the Book of Mormon (which He did without doubt BTW), and that Catholics, Episcopalians, and Orthodox read the Apocrypha only in church! Never mind that Catholics tend to read at least four lessons including the responsorial psalm–and that most of the words of the Liturgy are from the Bible!, and that Catholics stand for The Holy Gospel while most protestants sit comotose while the minister reads snippets of out of context scripture passages!:
Now, the computor one is classic seventies! Oh yes! Hal Lindsey and all that. When I was young the antichrists included Jimmy Carter (JC yaknow!), Kissinger, All the Popes, and Dr. Robert Schuller. Just how all these used a computor to conspire together is not clear But if the Vatican uses a computor is simply has to be a MAC because its the best—although I’m certain that the Sede-Vacantist are still using the univac!

 

[UnityofTrinity]

I grew up in a really fundamentalist, really Chick, really Southern Baptist town in Oklahoma, and a protestant friend told me that Catholics “made up” the Apocrypha like Joseph Smith made up the Book of Mormon (which He did without doubt BTW), and that Catholics, Episcopalians, and Orthodox read the Apocrypha only in church! Never mind that Catholics tend to read at least four lessons including the responsorial psalm–and that most of the words of the Liturgy are from the Bible!, and that Catholics stand for The Holy Gospel while most protestants sit comotose while the minister reads snippets of out of context scripture passages!:
Now, the computor one is classic seventies! Oh yes! Hal Lindsey and all that. When I was young the antichrists included Jimmy Carter (JC yaknow!), Kissinger, All the Popes, and Dr. Robert Schuller. Just how all these used a computor to conspire together is not clear But if the Vatican uses a computor is simply has to be a MAC because its the best—although I’m certain that the Sede-Vacantist are still using the univac!

Welcome to Fundamentalist land.

 

[jimpres]

I grew up in a really fundamentalist, really Chick, really Southern Baptist town in Oklahoma, and a protestant friend told me that Catholics “made up” the Apocrypha like Joseph Smith made up the Book of Mormon (which He did without doubt BTW), and that Catholics, Episcopalians, and Orthodox read the Apocrypha only in church! Never mind that Catholics tend to read at least four lessons including the responsorial psalm–and that most of the words of the Liturgy are from the Bible!, and that Catholics stand for The Holy Gospel while most protestants sit comotose while the minister reads snippets of out of context scripture passages!:
Now, the computor one is classic seventies! Oh yes! Hal Lindsey and all that. When I was young the antichrists included Jimmy Carter (JC yaknow!), Kissinger, All the Popes, and Dr. Robert Schuller. Just how all these used a computor to conspire together is not clear But if the Vatican uses a computor is simply has to be a MAC because its the best—although I’m certain that the Sede-Vacantist are still using the univac!

I live in Tennessee a baptist church every 1/4 mile One Catholic church in the whole area.
UNIVAC, worked on those refrigerators in the 70’s with 128 mgs of memory. Things have changed. However, I am now on a MAC.

 

[duffyk4]

Ever watched the children’s program, “Hocus Pocus”? The popular meaning of the term is a reference to magical stuff. The origin of this name is a spoof on the Latin sacred words of Consecration, Hoc Est Corpus Meun, this is my body. Anti-Catholics invented this term to demean the Eucharist, and using it for the name of a children’s TV show is outrageous. I wonder whqt the reaction would be if a TV show demeaned some words taken from the Qu’ran.

I think this is one of those cases where the words have taken a whole new meaning of their own, I sincerely doubt the creators of that show had te Eucharist in mind when naming it, simply that they’re generally used as “magical” terms now.

 

[bona_fides_1]

Ever watched the children’s program, “Hocus Pocus”? The popular meaning of the term is a reference to magical stuff. The origin of this name is a spoof on the Latin sacred words of Consecration, Hoc Est Corpus Meun, this is my body. Anti-Catholics invented this term to demean the Eucharist, and using it for the name of a children’s TV show is outrageous. I wonder whqt the reaction would be if a TV show demeaned some words taken from the Qu’ran.

I knew the etymology of this slang term and laugh at how Catholics just outlive or convert all our detractors - kingdoms, nations, enemies until the diminutive fade into obscurity over time.

The Protestants tried to use the word phrase “ROMAN Catholic” as a pejorative for those who were “popish” and were loyal to Rome less than to their king to slander Catholics national loyalty, demonize us and invite discrimination. The term migrated from Europe (England) to American and became part of the American lexicon. It now is on all the government survey forms and data bases as that…We of course call ourselves simply “Catholic”. But lately its becoming a source of renewed Catholic pride as many Catholics now go out of their way to call each other or identify as “Roman Catholic”. The negative connotation has been lost due to attrition of time and loss of modern memory and because we Catholics love to use the term to emphasize and express our dedication to the Holy Father in Rome. After so many generations of Protestants have passed now and most contemporaries have forgotten that it was originally a pejorative/derogatory term.

Ironically the Protestants now seem sensitive to being called Protestants. Most all that I speak to now try to call themselves “Christian” and not even identify with their church denomination. But some will coyly try to alienate Catholics by saying they are “Christian” and we are “Catholic” to make it sound like Catholics are not Christians. This becomes laughable given that no Protestant can trace his “Christian” pedigree and history further back than about 500 years ago and most less than 100 years ago and really thinks they are the original church! OMG the ignorance of history is profound.

BF

 

[Prophesy]

I knew the etymology of this slang term and laugh at how Catholics just outlive or convert all our detractors - kingdoms, nations, enemies until the diminutive fade into obscurity over time.

The Protestants tried to use the word phrase “ROMAN Catholic” as a pejorative for those who were “popish” and were loyal to Rome less than to their king to slander Catholics national loyalty, demonize us and invite discrimination. The term migrated from Europe (England) to American and became part of the American lexicon. It now is on all the government survey forms and data bases as that…We of course call ourselves simply “Catholic”. But lately its becoming a source of renewed Catholic pride as many Catholics now go out of their way to call each other or identify as “Roman Catholic”. The negative connotation has been lost due to attrition of time and loss of modern memory and because we Catholics love to use the term to emphasize and express our dedication to the Holy Father in Rome. After so many generations of Protestants have passed now and most contemporaries have forgotten that it was originally a pejorative/derogatory term.

Ironically the Protestants now seem sensitive to being called Protestants. Most all that I speak to now try to call themselves “Christian” and not even identify with their church denomination. But some will coyly try to alienate Catholics by saying they are “Christian” and we are “Catholic” to make it sound like Catholics are not Christians. This becomes laughable given that no Protestant can trace his “Christian” pedigree and history further back than about 500 years ago and most less than 100 years ago and really thinks they are the original church! OMG the ignorance of history is profound.

BF

Don’t forget that Baptists are now starting to claim that they’re the derivative of the Early Church and that Catholics were a later denomination. I do enjoy whipping out the papal succession table though.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popes

There are interregnums and sometimes the Protestants may think that this is something to be a cause of worry.

-Prophecy

 

[lutherlic]

Really? Gee then I hope they took my name off the Protestant list…

OK, I have been amused by the super computer nonsense before, but this is the first time I have seen anyone mention this angle! Perhaps we converts are not actually removed from the list, but rather have a special flag marked on our record so that we can be monitored…

On a super computer related thought (having been in the business forever), why a super computer? With new 3TB disks, any old computer could easily hold a list of around 30 billion Protestants (assuming 100 byte records). Alternately, why not make the list Internet based (with a secret password known only to all Catholics, of course) so that it could be easily referenced worldwide? Those old Jack Chick tracts really should be updated.

 

[bona_fides_1]

Don’t forget that Baptists are now starting to claim that they’re the derivative of the Early Church and that Catholics were a later denomination. I do enjoy whipping out the papal succession table though.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popes

There are interregnums and sometimes the Protestants may think that this is something to be a cause of worry.

-Prophecy

Yeah - had one try to claim that the Catholic Church lost its apostolic succession since it took us a few years to elect a few popes due to interference of wars, poor logistics/roads etc. LOL. They just don’t get it that the church is not all about the pope and that we have an apostolic college of bishops and all it takes is ONE to pass on his apostolic succession to subsequent bishops (who may later be elected to become a pope).

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. What a sad condition Protestantism is in. I can’t imagine how empty they feel with no historical basis at all to anything close to the early church and our original Christians and apostolic fathers as the Catholic Church has. We have so much forensic evidence as well - The Papal Church (Basilica of St. John Lateran Church) goes way back in time to the 4th century and Constantine’s time. Constantine gave it as an imperial gift that the Catholic Church has used all this time. Every old building or grave yard a Protetant points to in Europe used to be CATHOLIC and was annexed and taken over by the new secular governements!

As they say “to be Protestant is to be ignorant of history”.

BF

 

[Prophesy]

As they say “to be Protestant is to be ignorant of history”.

BF

Cardinal Newman. Quite the chap. I hope that it’s not long before he is canonized.

-Prophecy

 

[quasimodo]

Biggest whopper I’ve ever heard was when a co-worker asked me about the tunnels that connected the rectory with the convent and the cemetary where the babies of nuns were buried. He was in many ways an annoying idiot so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised and laughed at him.

I worked with a guy who “saw I with my own eyes.” When I challenged him on it, he stormed out of the room muttering curses.

 

[Prophesy]

OFF TOPIC:

“There will be plenty of time for liturgical dance in Purgatory.”.

I laughed.

-Prophecy

 

[sonettegarbin]

It’s Christmas time and an old lady goes to the post office;

“70 stamps please” She says.
“What denomination” The clerk asks.
“O! are they religious now, are they? Well, in that case I’ll have 46 Catholics and 24 Protestant.”

Oops, couldn’t help it.

On a more serious note, in some circles the Vatican has been accused of being in cahoots with the Illuminati & plans for world dominion.

 

[cthulhubryan]

Growing up in the Great State of Texas, I saw the decline of racism and other such malarkey but often saw it replaced with anti-catholic bigotry.

Much of it centered on Mary and the Rosary. It was years later that I learned that both Luther and Wesley prayed the Rosary daily.

One of my favorites was both anti-Catholic and pro-baptist and this was that Baptists were descended from John the Baptist. As a kid I only knew that this didn’t pass the sniff test, as an adult I’ve had the chance to ask several Baptists and a minister how they could be eating pork barbecue as John the Baptist was an Essenic Jew.

Chick tracks were common as well. The Death Cookie was a favorite. Showing these to my mother got me lectures and assignments as she made me look up things in the Bible and in Lattourettes (sic) History of Christianity. This started my intellectual urges for Catholicism all these years later. Go Mom!

 

[Nan_S]

Tony Alamo gets my vote. He may be in prison, but his supporters are still stuffing his hateful, blasphemy-spewing tracts on windshields around where I work.

Did you know the Catholic Church is now in cahoots with Oprah to take down Tony Alamo? As if we have nothing better to do, I guess… From his website:

"May 6, 2010
Oprah is part of the media whose false charges have caused many good, innocent people to be murdered and or sent to prison. Oprah says she will talk about “the secret world of Tony Alamo” and his child brides. Tony Alamo has no secret world or child brides. He is the least secret person in the world. His church is open daily to the public, and he is very outspoken, as an open book.
We demand that she cease and desist from her lies immediately or a measure will be taken. Oprah and the government media and the Roman Catholic cult are in conspiracy against Pastor Alamo and his whole church. He has been railroaded and put into prison, and Oprah thinks to take advantage of this fact. "

Funny thing is, his supporters are more than ready to plaster windshields with his hate (printed on expensive slick paper), but don’t have the courage to defend it. I caught one raggedy-looking fellow stuffing tracts on cars, walked in his direction, and he quickly reversed course to stuff windshields 50 yards away. Then he saw a security truck rolling his direction, took off running like a scared rabbit, and didn’t stop until he was out of sight down the street.

As for Jack Chick tracts, I do make very good use of them. I usually find them in public restrooms, and those tracts are just wonderful to have around when there’s no toilet paper in the stall. Grab them all up and keep a few in your purse for spares…

 

[mickeyfan35]

I was looking for a link to Why Catholics Do That and found a website for a Baptist church in Iowa that said that Catholics were actually the Romans who caught and tortured Christians. UH?

Some of these are absolutely hilarious, and some are just sad.