Whats your observation?

[alms]

Is it just me or does it seem that most (if not all) protestant denominations just bash Catholic Faith and not each other? I’ve never hear a Baptist talking bad about the Methodist faith or an Anglican taking jabs at the Fundamentalist, etc. What are your observations?

 

[viktor_aleksndr]

most Non Catholic religion do attack the CC because of the Sacred Tradition. Ignore them.

 

[Veritas41]

alms:

Is it just me or does it seem that most (if not all) protestant denominations just bash Catholic Faith and not each other? I’ve never hear a Baptist talking bad about the Methodist faith or an Anglican taking jabs at the Fundamentalist, etc. What are your observations?

As a former Protestant who attended Protestant churches of all different types, I can say it depends. Some churches I attended didn’t bash anyone, others didn’t really bash Catholics, but they held alot of the usual misconceptions about Catholic teaching that Protestants generally hold, and there were some really strict fundamentalist groups that bashed other Protestants (especially charismatics) as well as Catholics. But overall the Catholic Church is the favorite “whipping boy.”

 

[Jeanette_L]

Actually, having grown up in several different denominations, they do distrust each other, especially the Baptists. They really don’t trust just about anyone, but especially RC, and also any type of Pentecostal or Charismatic groups, as they are all deceived by Satan.

Pentecostals and some Charismatic groups distrust the RC in particular and then anyone else who doesn’t speak in tongues; they don’t think they are spirit filled Christians. In other words, inferior in their relationship with God.

Yes, it’s all rather sad.

 

[Lazerlike42]

I forget who, but somebody made the point that the Catholic Church is the only thing holding the Protestant churches together. If the Catholic Church ceased to exist, they would destroy each other by going after each other something fierce.

 

[alms]

Jeanette L:

Yes, it’s all rather sad.

Agree… it’s quite sad. Being from the south it does however seem that more of my Baptist friends have a lot more venom than my Methodist friends.

 

[alms]

Lazerlike42:

I forget who, but somebody made the point that the Catholic Church is the only thing holding the Protestant churches together. If the Catholic Church ceased to exist, they would destroy each other by going after each other something fierce.

Never heard that point made, but who ever made it… good point (with charity).

 

[Jeanette_L]

alms:

Agree… it’s quite sad. Being from the south it does however seem that more of my Baptist friends have a lot more venom than my Methodist friends.

That’s because the Methodists are not Fundamentalists. It’s a whole different breed.

Since I have converted to Catholicism, my family, who used to be Fundamentalist, then softened to a milder form of Evangelical, have now moved quickly back to Fundamentalist, just so I don’t infect them with this RC disease I have caught. If they believed in crucifixes, they be holding me down with one plastered on my forehead, believe you me.

 

[puzzleannie]

I have heard some scathing remarks from evangelical radio speakers about pentecostals. I have a cousin whose family departed from the Methodist roots to join an extreme fundamentalist sect in KY. The Methodist side of the family wrote them off completely. Then those parents disowned the daughter because she married a Salvation Army officer and became an officer herself. I have also known families of various mainstream Protestant congregations who have broken with family members who became Mormon or JW. Am working with candidates in RCIA whose families are split between Episcopal and Presbyterian and it has caused conflict.

 

[Fidelis]

Though the various Protestant groups may squabble and criticize each other, it is a fact that only Catholics are the focused target for entire organizations–organizations such as Missions To Catholics; Former Catholics for Christ; Christians Evangelizing Catholics, etc, etc. This isn’t even counting Protestant “missions” that aggressively target tradtionally Catholic countries like Brazil and Mexico, and the Phillipines.

That there are not equivalent groups (like Missions to Methodists; Christians Evangelizing Congregationalists; Former Anglicans for Christ; etc) shows how deep specifically anti-Catholicism runs.

 

[paramedicgirl]

I have one sister who skips from one Protestant denomination to another if her current church doesn’t suit her personal needs. I have never heard her bash any of her previous churches, though. But she certainly rolls her eyes at us Catholics. Her disgust with Catholics is all based on the common misconceptions about idol worship, sacrifce, the Real Presence, etc.

 

[Daniel_Marsh]

If you want to find out the trust level of a denomination, ask them if you need to be rebaptised in their church if you came from free methodist, free will baptist, conservative baptist, methodist, presybtarian, and so on, most if not all baptist groups will insist on rebaptism.

I often heard a pastor say, that _____________ denomination is not saved.

 

[JKirkLVNV]

Fidelis:

Though the various Protestant groups may squabble and criticize each other, it is a fact that only Catholics are the focused target for entire organizations–organizations such as Missions To Catholics; Former Catholics for Christ; Christians Evangelizing Catholics, etc, etc. This isn’t even counting Protestant “missions” that aggressively target tradtionally Catholic countries like Brazil and Mexico, and the Phillipines.

That there are not equivalent groups (like Missions to Methodists; Christians Evangelizing Congregationalists; Former Anglicans for Christ; etc) shows how deep specifically anti-Catholicism runs.

This is very true. Also, when you find a protestant group that DOESN’T bash the Catholic Church, it’s usually because the group is so liberal that they think every last person on earth is going to Heaven…they just wish the Catholic Church was more “affirming” or “open” or “less superstitious.”

 

[Roman_Catholic_1]

just so I don’t infect them with this RC disease I have caught.

You better get that looked at. I caught the same thing and caused me to lose friends and recieve weird looks from everyone around me. Don’t worry though it’s not very contagious to those who close their eyes to what they don’t want to see. Tell them to keep the vial over their eyes and they will be fine.

Anyways, I haven’t seen too much anti-Catholicism in person (not including online). My future father in law goes to an Assembly of God and adheres to all the same tired misconceptions Catholics add things to the Bible, whore of Babylon, bla bla bla. I always thought that maybe it was just him that held these views about Jesus’ Church but after I joined a ‘Christian’ forum, I found out that his feelings are in the majority.

Sad really.

 

[djrakowski]

alms:

Is it just me or does it seem that most (if not all) protestant denominations just bash Catholic Faith and not each other? I’ve never hear a Baptist talking bad about the Methodist faith or an Anglican taking jabs at the Fundamentalist, etc. What are your observations?

Actually, my former Protestant churches never spent time bashing much of anything (directly, anyways).

 

[mikew262]

I think to a certain degree, we Christians are our own worst enemy. Catholics bash Protestants, Protestants bash Catholics, 1 Protestant denomination will bash another, pre-Vatican 2 Catholics will bash the Catholics in favor of Vatican 2 changes, traditional Catholics bash more progressive ones, you don’t agree with my point of view, you are a heretic, I could go on and on.

I’m thinking this isn’t exactly God’s plan. Have we as Christians totally twisted and mangled Jesus’s message into something that would be unrecognizable by the original author? I wonder sometimes.

 

[Al_Masetti]

I was listening to the radio … there was a “Christian” program on… occasionally interesting… they started bashing the Knights of Columbus and encouraged a caller to stop belonging to it, calling it a cult and so on.

Yeah,I cannot recall ever having heard a Protestant going after other Protestants… lots go after the Catholic Church.

 

[Flopfoot]

Roman_Catholic:

You better get that looked at. I caught the same thing and caused me to lose friends and recieve weird looks from everyone around me. Don’t worry though it’s not very contagious to those who close their eyes to what they don’t want to see. Tell them to keep the vial over their eyes and they will be fine.

Hmm funny and sad at the same time.

I actually have heard Prots bashing other denoms and I was quite surprised… a (low) Anglican was making a big deal about how they have nothing to do with the Pentecostals… but mostly, yea Catholics are probably their favorite target. I remember once there were these 2 evangelical guys who were going around looking for non-christians to talk to them for 5 mins about God and Jesus and etc. When they found out I was Catholic they actually sat down for half an hour to try to convert me! Is a Catholic worth 6 times as many ‘points’ as a non-Christian?

I would have thought maybe we are their main target just because we are the biggest. But it’s more than that. I think they are worried that we are going to go around converting their members to Catholicism.

Actually maybe they are motivated out of guilt. Kind of like how pro-abortionists know that they are wrong deep down, but this feeling never gets anywhere near enough to the surface for them to consciously acknowledge it, maybe it’s the same for Protestants. Maybe they have to bash Catholics to help them feel that what they believe really is true and to push that deep down feeling even deeper.

Mikew - You are right in suggesting that it’s not God’s plan that Christians should oppose one another. However, that doesn’t mean that we’re all in the wrong, because God’s plan is that we should all have the fullness of truth and hence agree on that. So Catholics saying that what Protestants teach is wrong, are actually doing the right thing, while Protestants saying that what Catholics teach is wrong, are doing the wrong thing.

 

[x4us]

It has been my experience that the more Evangelical and Fundamentalist churches will criticize and take pot-shots at the Mainline denominations (Presbyterian, Methodist, etc.) The Evangelical and Fundamentalists would often question if those in the Mainline denominations were “really saved.” A friend who “converted” from the Presbyterian church to the Baptists said that he had been “saved out of the Presbyterian church.” Another person I knew who had come into a Fundamentalist church from and Episcopalian background said that the church she had come from was filled w/ “Whiskey-palians” because some of them drank alcohol (a big no-no in Fundamentalist circles). I’ve heard it said many times in Protestant circles that “Christians are the only ones who shoot their wounded” - as a side note, sadly, many of those who would say that would not even consider Catholics to be Christian - so they’re talking about Protestants “shooting their own.”

 

[alms]

Flopfoot:

Actually maybe they are motivated out of guilt. Kind of like how pro-abortionists know that they are wrong deep down, but this feeling never gets anywhere near enough to the surface for them to consciously acknowledge it, maybe it’s the same for Protestants. Maybe they have to bash Catholics to help them feel that what they believe really is true and to push that deep down feeling even deeper…

I think you’re on to something… It sounds like that their God giving 6th sense called the conscience maybe causing insecurities with their anti-Catholic beliefs.

Flopfoot:

Mikew - You are right in suggesting that it’s not God’s plan that Christians should oppose one another. However, that doesn’t mean that we’re all in the wrong, because God’s plan is that we should all have the fullness of truth and hence agree on that. So Catholics saying that what Protestants teach is wrong, are actually doing the right thing, while Protestants saying that what Catholics teach is wrong, are doing the wrong thing…

Agree!