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

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cool, might have to check that out. I love reading his books. Sorry off subject.
 
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.
 
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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LOL this sounds like a wild conflation of 3 seperate stories taken from: 1) Luther’s experiences with an indulgence called Pilot’s Stair taken together with 2) poetic excursions of select Lutheran quotes taken from his infamous Table Talk (where a glass of wine would be an expected prop for Luther’s meal) commingled with 3) visions taken from the wonder-child Seventh Day Adventist & self-appointed pseudo-Seer/Prophetess Ellen G. White.
Ellen G. White vision concerning Luther:
Her story:

"By a recent decretal an indulgence had been promised by the pope to all who should ascend upon their knees ‘Pilate’s staircase,’ said to have been descended by our Saviour on leaving the Roman judgment hall and to have been miraculously conveyed from Jerusalem to Rome. Luther was one devoutly climbing these steps, when suddenly a voice like thunder seemed to say to him: ‘The just shall live by faith.’ Romans 1:17. He sprang to his feet and hastened from the place in shame and horror. That text never lost its power upon his soul. From that time he saw more clearly than ever before the fallacy of trusting to human works for salvation, and the necessity of constant faith in the merits of Christ. His eyes had been opened, and were never again to be closed, to the delusions of the papacy."9
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Sounds like someone with a fragile mind and 3rd grade reading comprehension was caught as an innocent victim in the wild crossfire of competing denominational polemics and just guessed that the Catholic Church was somehow to blame for it all.

BF
 
Nan_S said:
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:

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…
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Oh yeah, man don’t I love that episode, especially when we listened to his old interview where he said that the government just investigate his case while leaving the “homosexuals” of the Catholic Church behind.

I think Jack Chick make pretty good tracts, I do enjoy reading them just as I used to read manga. Some ideas are really laughable, but thanks, now I know an another use of it.
 
UnityofTrinity said:
I think Jack Chick make pretty good tracts, I do enjoy reading them just as I used to read manga. Some ideas are really laughable, but thanks, now I know an another use of it.
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I do owe it to Jack Chick for for inspiring a lot of the manga/anime-esque parodies that are now constantly swirling in my head whenever I read them.

In terms of art though, I sometimes find it even worse than a hentai manga.
 
The craziest thing I’ve ever heard is that the priest sleeps with each bride before he can marry a couple in the Catholic Church.I am not joking–someone actually thought this was true.
 
The craziest I have heard is that the apparitions of Our Lady in Fatima was the devil in disguise as the “Angel of Light”

(And why then, I must ask the anti-Catholics, are there so many good fruits coming out of these apparitions? The fruits justify the verity of these apparitions. They are real, thanks be to God!)

Dolores
 
My favourite anti-Catholic whopper is this cartoon tract from Jack Chick Publications called The Death Cookie.

It makes the amazing claims that Satan instituted the Catholic Eucharist, that the doctrine of transubstantiation is actually derived from an ancient Egyptian sun-worshipping cult; that the letters IHS on communion hosts actually signify the names of the Egyptian gods Isis, Horus and Seb; that the Bible is forbidden to be read by Catholics because if Catholics did read it they would all convert to Protestantism; that Adoration of Christ in the Sacrament is idolatry; and that the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon of the Revelation to St. John. Phew! All that in about 45 cartoon frames.

Ironically, this tract actually got me interested in Catholicism and got me started on the road to being baptised as a Catholic LOL.
 
Dolores_IHS said:
The craziest I have heard is that the apparitions of Our Lady in Fatima was the devil in disguise as the “Angel of Light”

(And why then, I must ask the anti-Catholics, are there so many good fruits coming out of these apparitions? The fruits justify the verity of these apparitions. They are real, thanks be to God!)

Dolores
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Funny how not one single Protestant ever put Luther or Calvin to the test for the demonic possessed pretending to be angels of enlightenment or insisted that the apostles test the tongues of fire that descended at Pentecost.

The Protestant theology does not even pass the most fundamental tests of rationality or logic. Not one of them has ever explained just how “totally depraved” men with utterly defective intellects (Protestant key theology) could escape its own defect to construct the blue print for a new and perfect Reformed Church. 🤷 It sure sound like is must be either of: 1) possession or 2) supreme hubris or 3) just perfect evidence of totally depraved intellects? 🤷😃

The good news is that if its #3 ignorance viz insanity most Protestants get a free ticket to paradise and Luther saved more than Catholics by infecting a great part of Christendom with the closest thing to the grace of assurances of final perseverance - insanity.

BF
 
zielwolf said:
My favourite anti-Catholic whopper is this cartoon tract from Jack Chick Publications called The Death Cookie.

It makes the amazing claims that Satan instituted the Catholic Eucharist, that the doctrine of transubstantiation is actually derived from an ancient Egyptian sun-worshipping cult; that the letters IHS on communion hosts actually signify the names of the Egyptian gods Isis, Horus and Seb; that the Bible is forbidden to be read by Catholics because if Catholics did read it they would all convert to Protestantism; that Adoration of Christ in the Sacrament is idolatry; and that the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon of the Revelation to St. John. Phew! All that in about 45 cartoon frames.

Ironically, this tract actually got me interested in Catholicism and got me started on the road to being baptised as a Catholic LOL.
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It’s really going to be ironic if someday we find out the mystery man of Jack Chick was really just an incompetent comedian and comic book writer who glommed onto his niche audience quite by accident when somone picked up one of his funny cartoon books and they started taking him seriously. My theory is he just caved into the easy money and went with the flow and kicks back 10% to the Protestant preachers for giving endorsements and passing them out in the pews for the kids to keep them from crying during their boring anti-Catholic sermons. Chick honestly probably never dreamt that the parents would swipe the comic books from their kids at home, read them, become subscribers and then get mail order divinity degrees and create a cottage industry out of peddling anti-Catholicism. Wouldn’t surprise me if they have the whole thing networked now in a multi-level marketing system with sponsored downline … 😛

:sarcasm:

BF
 
duffyk4 said:
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.
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Yes, the creators probably did not, but ignorance of the source of the phrase is no excuse. Words have meaning. Try innocently using some word or phrase no longer approved by the PC crowd, and you will quickly be corrected.
 
zielwolf said:
My favourite anti-Catholic whopper is this cartoon tract from Jack Chick Publications called The Death Cookie.

It makes the amazing claims that Satan instituted the Catholic Eucharist, that the doctrine of transubstantiation is actually derived from an ancient Egyptian sun-worshipping cult; that the letters IHS on communion hosts actually signify the names of the Egyptian gods Isis, Horus and Seb; that the Bible is forbidden to be read by Catholics because if Catholics did read it they would all convert to Protestantism; that Adoration of Christ in the Sacrament is idolatry; and that the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon of the Revelation to St. John. Phew! All that in about 45 cartoon frames.

Ironically, this tract actually got me interested in Catholicism and got me started on the road to being baptised as a Catholic LOL.
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I followed the link this morning and read the cartoon about the “death cookie” or the “death wafer.” It’s been on my mind all day today.

A “death cookie”??? :bigyikes:

The bible says that people who take communion unworthily have died prematurely or become feeble. For that reason, it’s wise to be reverent about it. The scripture is available upon request.
 
bona_fides said:
Yes - I am debating with a Protestant friend in email exchanges and has brought a lot of these false charges up and he is a college educated guy in charge of a whole research department at his work. That is what is scary! The bigotry seems to be a part of some of the fundamentally bible-only Protestant culture and mindset itself and it completely blinds them and makes rational dialog impossible. … There is nothing more frustrating to me than to try to engage people with these brainwashed minds in rational dialog and ask for evidence or facts to back up the claim and they say things like “Catholics have revised history” or “destroyed evidence” etc. and they just blow you off.

It sounds to me like the followers of the reformers in conjunction with the secular governments must have gone way out of their way to very expertly initiate a smear campaign centuries ago and set in motion polemics to slander and vilify the Church that persist even to this day. But its more than mere ignorance - its evil incarnate trying to hide the truth through calumny and intrigue and physchology. It’s hard to believe that such ignorance can not only exist in this day and age but thrive and replicate itself.

BF
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Yes. A lot of the lies against Catholics were started by the first protestants and used as propaganda to get people to convert from Catholicism, or to accept the “Reformation” where this had been imposed by the King.

In later centuries secularists took up a lot of these lies and added more of their own. Even today new lies and distortions are added, such as the calumnies of Pope Pius XII, Mother Theresa or such rubbish as that the Church promotes AIDS (presumably in order to kill more Catholics…??? :confused:

I think the unending trail of lies about the Church is proof of the statements in the Bible that Jesus true followers will always be vilified, and that as the Chief enemy of the Father of Lies, the Church will be first target for this. Protestants and then Atheists were used to attack the Church, not because the devil loves Protestants or Atheists, but whoever can be misled to attack the Church serves (even unwittingly) the devil’s long-term cause.
 
I love the joke about the Evangelical minister who goes to visit one of his parishioners in hospital. He notices ‘P’ and ‘RC’ written on the end of various patient’s beds. He approaches the ‘P’ patients to offer a little bedside comfort and guidance. On leaving, he speaks to the nurse and informs her he has visited all the Protestant patients. She asks how he knows they were Protestant and he tells her by the ‘P’ on the end of the bed. The nurse laughs and informs him that ‘P’ and ‘RC’ stand for what the patient’s want for brekfast, porridge or rice crispies!

::rotfl::rotfl:
 
I suppose I can’t really talk about misconceptions. On my first visit to Canada, I responsibly placed my leftovers and rubbish from a McDonalds in a rubbish bin. A few days later my aunt, whom I was staying with, informed me it was a mail box.

Oops! 😊
 
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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I don’t know how to react.

I’m on the verge of bursting into tears from laughter, or a fit of passionate indignation.

What has gotten into these lunatics?

-Prophecy
 
not really a whopper but had to share. My husband jokingly said we must have a Catholic card to get discounts at liquor stores! I wish 😛
 
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