What's the craziest thing you've ever heard from an Anti-Catholic Anti-Catholic?

[Rainman498]

I’ve been told that the inscription on the Pope’s hat somehow is a code for 666. Also, refusing to eat meat on Fridays is, for some reason, pure evil. Finally, Catholics can buy forgiveness for a sin before they commit it.

 

[Karen1960]

a new one I just heard yesterday,concerning confession

Catholic Confession is unbiblical:ehh:
Don’t you know only God can forgives sins? You are trusting some man for your salvation
Besides, Confession was “imvented” so the Priests would know everything about you and use it against you.
Also some Priests encourage you to talk about sexual sins for their own desires.

But being one of the few Catholics in the county, I’m used to this:shrug:

 

[Cyclophile]

I wouldn’t call this person an anti-Catholic, but she certainly had some false stereotypes about Catholics. She said that ALL Catholics are anti-gay, which is just simply not true. Some are anti-gay, but so are a lot of non-Catholic people. And, a good amount of Catholics accept gayness. It gets dangerous to draw blanket statements about ANY religion, group of people, race, etc.

Love the sinner, hate the sin… we all have our crosses to bear.

Friend of mine …she was convinced that the Jesuits were the Vatican’s secret police… Vatican Warlock Assassins, if you will.

 

[Sebastian83]

An evangelical youth group leader once told me that in the Catholic Church during special services the priest wears a black robe and sits at the front of the church on a throne. She went on to say that deacons of the Church dump garbage down the aisle and the parishioners of the Church have to crawl through the garbage on hands and knees up to the priest and kiss his feet. She was in tears by the end of the story…

 

[followingtheway]

An evangelical youth group leader once told me that in the Catholic Church during special services the priest wears a black robe and sits at the front of the church on a throne. She went on to say that deacons of the Church dump garbage down the aisle and the parishioners of the Church have to crawl through the garbage on hands and knees up to the priest and kiss his feet. She was in tears by the end of the story…

CRAZY!!! :dts:

 

[jen_fla]

An evangelical youth group leader once told me that in the Catholic Church during special services the priest wears a black robe and sits at the front of the church on a throne. She went on to say that deacons of the Church dump garbage down the aisle and the parishioners of the Church have to crawl through the garbage on hands and knees up to the priest and kiss his feet. She was in tears by the end of the story…

that almost takes the cake, because i don’t think she got it from a chick pamphlet. WOW!

 

[anodos]

In my experience, having been raised to be “against” the Catholic Church but not actually as an anti-Catholic, the Seventh Day Adventists are my first (and so far only) experience in that genre. Here are the highlights of a sermon that gets recycled periodically in the local SDA congregation:

Catholics believe that Christ bows in humble submission to the egotistical priests who think they can “make” their maker with their own hands, by their own power, presumably without God’s permission.
The mark of the Beast is Sunday worship mandated by the Catholic Church; she is going to use the arm of the law to force everyone to take this “mark” and disobey God’s commands to keep a Saturday Sabbath.
The Catholic Church killed 50-75 million people during the Inquisition; she’s killed an average of 50,000 every year since the Church was founded.
She is the whore of Babylon, or the false prophet, and America is conspiring with her, unawares, to set up the Antichrist’s government. As proof that the Church is the false prophet of Revelation, she received a “mortal wound” when Pope Pius VI was arrested and died in prison at the end of the 18th century (as though no other Pope was a martyr), and was “resurrected” when Mussolini restored the Papacy’s sovereignty in 1929.
We must rely on the Word of God and reject the wine of the Papacy’s fornications.
Add miscellaneous misinterpretations of Catholic teaching and history, mixed with several truths interpreted as blasphemies.
All in one sermon.

I should add that the SDAs are among some of the gentlest, most diligent and pure people that I’ve met. I left the congregation a few years ago (never joined, just attended) and still maintain contact with a very wonderful older woman; she is the one who keeps me “updated” with sermon notes now and then.

 

[anodos]

that almost takes the cake, because i don’t think she got it from a chick pamphlet. WOW!

Ditto.

 

[joe370]

What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever heard an Anti-Catholic say?

As a former protestant I have heard them all:

The CC killed millions during the Spanish Inquisition.

Catholics worship Mary.

Catholics worship the Pope.

Catholics claim that the Pope is indefectible.

Catholics are guilty of idolatry because they worship statues.

The CC is the whore of Babylon.

Catholics worship a piece of mere bread.

The Pope is the anti-Christ.

The Catholic Church teaches that salvation can be earned via works, which I found to be absurd even as a former non-Catholic. The irony for non-Catholics is the fact that it was a heresy called Pelegianism (long before the first protestant church came on to the scene) - formally condemned by the Catholic Church yet this myth continues…

 

[joe370]

Originally Posted by Sebastian83
An evangelical youth group leader once told me that in the Catholic Church during special services the priest wears a black robe and sits at the front of the church on a throne. She went on to say that deacons of the Church dump garbage down the aisle and the parishioners of the Church have to crawl through the garbage on hands and knees up to the priest and kiss his feet. She was in tears by the end of the story…

I agree with Jen Fla; that one most definitely takes the cake…

 

[vera_dicere]

The grossest one I heard was someone told me the Pope himself said that all priests were allowed to abuse one boy, and two girls, and that Bishops could abuse four, and that the Pope could abuse as many as he wanted. This guy went onto say we used some scripture to justify this.

He could not back up any of his claims with any semblence of evidence. [surprise, surprise]

And the same guy, further expressed his paranoia by saying that groups like atheists for life, pro-life alliance of lebians and gays or whatever, - those groups were actually started by the Catholic Church staffed by Catholics pretending to be atheists and gays so they could push the anti-choice agenda.

 

[Dymphna82]

Mary is the whore of Babylon.
Jesus was black.
Jesus walked on ice.
Jesus used spells that he stole from a Jewish temple to do his works.
Jesus was a liberal.

 

[anodos]

The grossest one I heard was someone told me the Pope himself said that all priests were allowed to abuse one boy, and two girls, and that Bishops could abuse four, and that the Pope could abuse as many as he wanted. This guy went onto say we used some scripture to justify this.

The source for this information must be the same book Sebastian83’s youth group leader was reading.

And the same guy, further expressed his paranoia by saying that groups like atheists for life, pro-life alliance of lebians and gays or whatever, - those groups were actually started by the Catholic Church staffed by Catholics pretending to be atheists and gays so they could push the anti-choice agenda.

I have heard that Catholics are actually pro-abortion, and they only appear to oppose issues like abortion and homosexual marriage to distract us from their real agenda.

 

[Tony888]

A southern Baptist in the 50’s was taught in bible school that the Knights of Columbus were going to rise up and kill all the Protestants, if Kennedy was elected President.

 

[havana1]

What I’ve heard anti-Catholics say: Constantine started the Catholic church. Not Jesus. Constantine.

Yet, it seems to be a taboo subject, because I rarely (if ever) hear it discussed by any apologists and it’s not in any of Scott Hahn’s or James Akin’s books, etc.

 

[anodos]

An evangelical youth group leader once told me that in the Catholic Church during special services the priest wears a black robe and sits at the front of the church on a throne. She went on to say that deacons of the Church dump garbage down the aisle and the parishioners of the Church have to crawl through the garbage on hands and knees up to the priest and kiss his feet. She was in tears by the end of the story…

Could she have been thinking of a satanic Black Mass? I don’t know how much is fact or fantasy, but I think the gist is an evil parody of the Catholic Mass.