Why do people hate us SOOOO much?

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Always keep in mind that there are LOTS of different kinds of Baptists.

When I applied to go to Urbana back in the 1970s, we had to check our “religious affiliation.” The “Baptist” list was a page and a half long.

And that was back in the 70s! It’s probably longer now.

Also, keep in mind that they think they are loving Catholics by exposing the “false” religion and leading them to the truth of Jesus Christ. Their motives are good. Unfortunately, there is so much emotion that it’s almost impossible to get a Baptist like that to agree to listen to a Catholic talk about their church. Since they think it is anti-Christ, they will not have anything to do with it, just like they wouldn’t dream of entering a Satanist church.

Finally, keep in mind that just as evolutionists make their living researching and teaching evolution, many people make their living researching and teaching anti-Catholicism. It is not a pleasant thought to lose a job when other people expose you as a flim-flammer.
 
That site is also a independent church which means they have no accountability to the Baptists as a whole so dont judge Baptists by this particular one.

Also I had to smile about Canadas only true voice or whatever he said, in Brandon which isnt exactly a center of Canada. 🤷

I dont like those who claim to speak for others when the others dont even know they are there.
 
davidarlette said:
I’m a new Catholic and have a Baptist friend who I write to. I am getting somewhere. He’ll admit now that I am saved, even though I am Catholic. 😃
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This is really the only solution. There’s not a whole lot you or I can do about the type of frothy-mouthed, wild-eyed, dyed-in-the-wool anti-Catholics who put so much time and effort into creating a website of the type that was referenced. What I’ve found is truly effective, however, is to engage individuals one on one - get to know them and show them you don’t have horns. If you can teach them a thing or two they didn’t know or were misinformed about Catholics or the Catholic Church, you may not convert them (you probably won’t), but if you can accomplish that much, you may have at least, as Karl Keating says, taken one more anti-Catholic out of the fray. I’ve been blessed to see it happen a lot, even to the extent that the person, in their own circle of believers, becomes a defender of Catholicism to some extent.
 
It’s Bibical!

If we follow Christ people will not like us, myself, I will try, with help from above, to respond with love.

and not all non-Catholics have such a disdain for Catholics,

Matt 5:10 - 12 Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake: Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.
 
I don’t think that people hate Christians… As a Buddhist, I try to love all individuals equally without discrimination. Perhaps Christians are becoming more radical in their judgements, look how everyone on here separates people by saying “Us and Them.” I may not be a Christian, but I hold your existence in respect.
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 Atheists honestly cannot understand why you blindly put belief in your religion without evidence.. In a universe of logic, reasoning, and constant transition, proof is what makes something a fact or not. Obviously, you don't believe in greek, roman or pagan gods, but why do you choose the christian god? It's just a choice, and then you put your dependence on it, then it eventually becomes habitual, and for many, an addiction. 

    It's also quite funny, how many Christian sects hate each other.. It's like saying my dad's better than your dad.. Buddhist sects are juxtaposed very nicely, and corroborate each others practices, so no problems! When it comes down to morals, if we were moral in our nature, we wouldn't have religion, wouldn't need it.
 
jedimasterham said:
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 Atheists honestly cannot understand why you blindly put belief in your religion without evidence.. In a universe of logic, reasoning, and constant transition, proof is what makes something a fact or not. Obviously, you don't believe in greek, roman or pagan gods, but why do you choose the christian god? It's just a choice, and then you put your dependence on it, then it eventually becomes habitual, and for many, an addiction.
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We would say exactly the same about atheism (quite unprovable, and unsupported by evidence, habitual, for many, an addiction). But it shouldn’t be discussed in this thread. Start another thread on the subject and we can talk about it.
 
VociMike said:
They hate the Church because the Church stands in judgement of them and their beliefs. If the Church is right, they must be wrong (and apostates, and heretics). So they must prove the Church wrong, and not just wrong but also evil. Only then are they justified in their own beliefs.

Don’t forget what John Henry Newman said about Protestantism:
“If you would have some direct downright proof that Catholicism is what Protestants make it to be, something which will come up to the mark, you must lie; else you will not get beyond feeble suspicions, which may be right, but may be wrong. Hence Protestants are obliged to cut their ninth commandment out of their Decalogue. “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour” must go, must disappear; their position requires the sacrifice. The substance, the force, the edge of their Tradition is slander.”
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👍 That is sooo true, because if the Church is right, then they are wrong, for them the Church must be wrong, it must be evil, and the Pope must be that Anti-Christ, because if not, then they unequivocally wrong. They are willing to defend their error, because they will not be proven wrong.

It really boggles me how they claim to hold the fullness of the truth and then will not provide proofs for their anti-Catholic allegations. They claim to have so much proof, and then won’t provide one sentence of it to substantiate their argument.
 
They hate us because they unapologetically hate the Church, and we identify with that which they hate with every fibre of their existence. They hate us because we stand for what they hate, they prefer their fiction to truth, and they will not have us shatter their fantasy world. They prefer lies to the truth.
 
jedimasterham said:
Fact: Knowledge or information based on real occurrences.

Fact: You are reading this! 😃
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All you are doing is offering a defintion of the word, “Fact”. Your claim however, was that all facts are empirically verifiable. Therefore, according to your claim, your statement must be empirically verifiable to be factual. Please offer your empirical evidence that your claim is factual.

Mods, I know this is OT, sorry.
 
1962Missal said:
All you are doing is offering a defintion of the word, “Fact”. Your claim however, was that all facts are empirically verifiable. Therefore, according to your claim, your statement must be empirically verifiable to be factual. Please offer your empirical evidence that your claim is factual.
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There’s no fact that says Christians are going to heaven, and there’s no verifiable, substantial evidence to back it up.
 
I hope Dan Ferrell has Asbestos Underwear. He will definitley need it for where he is going.:mad: :rolleyes: 😃
 
jedimasterham said:
There’s no fact that says Christians are going to heaven, and there’s no verifiable, substantial evidence to back it up.
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There is no evidence to back up relativity either, yet it is taught, what about evolution. Evidence is relative.
 
My Grandma told me once that when she was young and going to school or just walking there was a group of protestant kids who’d yell “Here come the Cat Lickers!” She might have told me they had a song too but I can’t remember. The point is that most of this is just pointless and stupid and based on nothing more than what anti-Catholics want to believe, and that even after all these years they still haven’t grown up.

BTW, yes, I know that not all protestants are like this.
 
ukdal1 said:
Check out this page from Baptistpillar.com… All the stuff they say is so full of garbage and falsehoods its unreal!!! I converted over recently from being a Baptist, and I know what is said about Catholics, but this really takes the cake 😦

here it is baptistpillar.com/bd0039.htm

I really dont know what to say 🤷
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Its not hard to understand. If the pope is not exactly what he says he is then he is a cruel dictator in a long line of cruel dictators. He is either mentally defective (decieved himself), morrally defective (decieving everyone else with lies), OR HE IS THE VICOR OF CHRIST. Once you claim to be Gods voice on earth there are pretty much no other options.
  1. You might want to look around at this constintine theory it gets pretty good. It seems we can all agree to disagree about who set things right again, but there is a suprising amount of agreement about the villian of our piece. Right up until you look at what each group thinks constintine is guilty of. That changes from one denomination to another with no ryme or reason. It really becomes almost comical to hear so many different people say the same man is guilty without being able to agree on what he is guility of.
 
baptistpillar.com/bd0293.htm

How many times will these Anti-Catholics quote Boettner?

I just read a bit of the original site you posted. I wonder what one of these people who wrote that site would say when we actually explain what we do…We should write an open letter to the writer of the site! What do you think?
 
Rawb said:
My Grandma told me once that when she was young and going to school or just walking there was a group of protestant kids who’d yell “Here come the Cat Lickers!” She might have told me they had a song too but I can’t remember. The point is that most of this is just pointless and stupid and based on nothing more than what anti-Catholics want to believe, and that even after all these years they still haven’t grown up.

BTW, yes, I know that not all protestants are like this.
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Indeed.

Of course I know that they are not all like that, just 99.999999999999% of them.
 
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