Why do Protestants hate the Catholic Church?

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For icamhif, but for everyone else on this thread too, here’s what I find to be the most striking thing:

If you google either the phrase “Protestants hate Catholicism” or “Catholics hate Protestantism” you get a mere handful of results (10 results in the former case, 5 in the latter) but if you instead google either “Protestant hate Catholics” or “Catholics hate Protestants” then in either case the number of results explodes to over 1000.

Anybody see something wrong in this situation? :ehh:
 
Peter_J said:
For icamhif, but for everyone else on this thread too, here’s what I find to be the most striking thing:

If you google either the phrase “Protestants hate Catholicism” or “Catholics hate Protestantism” you get a mere handful of results (10 results in the former case, 5 in the latter) but if you instead google either “Protestant hate Catholics” or “Catholics hate Protestants” then in either case the number of results explodes to over 1000.

Anybody see something wrong in this situation? :ehh:
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Yes…we have to stop hating!
 
It is our human arrogance and mindset.

We don’t hate the differences; but we hate the people.

The only reason for a justified hate is when God hates it. When we start believing that God hates all those things that we do; we have created our own god.

I don’t believe - based on the many blessings that are evident in the people I know (both Catholic and Protestant) - God hates neither group. We should not either.
 
Dorothy said:
Originally Posted by Peter J
For icamhif, but for everyone else on this thread too, here’s what I find to be the most striking thing:
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I agree, absolutely. But at the same time, I think others shouldn’t be so quick to accuse us.

Or, perhaps better put, shouldn’t be too free with their accusations. In particular, “Protestants hate Catholicism” (or “Catholics hate Protestantism”) is much less unreasonable than “Protestant hate Catholics” (or “Catholics hate Protestants”), yet the latter is what people usually say (judging by google anyhow). That’s my point.
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I was brought up in a Buddhist/Taoist family in Malaysia. At an early age, I attended the local Catholic school, St Michael’s Institution, in Ipoh, Malaysia. I later became an Evangelical Christian at the age of 16 when I was witnessed to by one of the students at my boarding school in N. Ireland. I have attended worship services in Evangelical churches (Baptist, Methodist, Presbytherian, Anglican) and Catholic masses on several occasions. I noted the following most important differences:
  1. Catholics have lots of statues in their churches. Being from a Buddhist family, I am not offended by statues. However, Malaysia is a Muslim majority country and for Muslims (and Jews), statues are absolutely banned. The second (or first if you’re Catholic) commandment from the ten commandments does say that statues are not to be worshipped, and I’ve seen Catholics kneeling, bowing and praying to statues.
  2. Catholics pray to saints and to Mary, the Lord Jesus Christ’s mother as some sort of a demi-goddess.
  3. I have no objection to transubstantiation, the changing of the wafer and the wine into the actual blood and body of Jesus Christ. However, some people might object to this as a type of sorcery, and might lead to regarding some objects as magical. Of course, this cannot be scientifically proven, the bread and wine remains chemically bread and wine.
  4. In the Catholic church, ministers have to be male and celibate. This limits the ones eligible to become priests and bishops to really dedicated men. If these men were unable to control their sexual urges, then we will have scandals in the Catholic Church.
  5. I have no problems with the Crusades, which are just wars against Islamic aggression. However, when we consider the Inquisition, they have techniques for torturing people which make Guantanamo Bay look like boyscouts. Anyone knows that confessions made during torture are not valid.
  6. Killing of heretics is murder. I don’t know what you call it but killing people who do not agree 100% with you is murder and a mortal sin. Considering the fact that there are 1 billion Catholics in the world, that makes 5 billion non-Catholics. And as there are 2 billion Christians (of all denominations) in the world, this makes 4 billion non-Christians. That is a lot of people to torture and kill.
 
leekonghian said:
I was brought up in a Buddhist/Taoist family in Malaysia. At an early age, I attended the local Catholic school, St Michael’s Institution, in Ipoh, Malaysia. I later became an Evangelical Christian at the age of 16 when I was witnessed to by one of the students at my boarding school in N. Ireland. I have attended worship services in Evangelical churches (Baptist, Methodist, Presbytherian, Anglican) and Catholic masses on several occasions. I noted the following most important differences:
  1. Catholics have lots of statues in their churches. Being from a Buddhist family, I am not offended by statues. However, Malaysia is a Muslim majority country and for Muslims (and Jews), statues are absolutely banned. The second (or first if you’re Catholic) commandment from the ten commandments does say that statues are not to be worshipped, and I’ve seen Catholics kneeling, bowing and praying to statues.
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I’m wondering how you know exactly what is going on in the mind of someone who is kneeling in front of a statue. Are you a mind reader? The Church condemns the worship of anything or anybody besides God. If any Catholics did worship statues, they were sinning. Do all the members of your church follow all its rules? Do none of them sin?
  1. Catholics pray to saints and to Mary, the Lord Jesus Christ’s mother as some sort of a demi-goddess.
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No, we don’t. Period.
  1. I have no objection to transubstantiation, the changing of the wafer and the wine into the actual blood and body of Jesus Christ. However, some people might object to this as a type of sorcery, and might lead to regarding some objects as magical. Of course, this cannot be scientifically proven, the bread and wine remains chemically bread and wine.
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The supernatural is not magical. Your objection could also be made to Christ’s feeding of the 5,000 with a few fish and a couple loaves of bread. Will you also condemn that miracle because “some people might object to this as a type of sorcery, and might lead to regarding some objects as magical”?
  1. In the Catholic church, ministers have to be male and celibate. This limits the ones eligible to become priests and bishops to really dedicated men.
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I would think you would applaud this.
If these men were unable to control their sexual urges, then we will have scandals in the Catholic Church.
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Scandal is also caused by Protestant ministers who cheat on their wives. So how is this an objection to the Catholic Church? The abuse of something does not negate its proper use. So the abuse of a vow of celibacy does not negate its proper use any more than the abuse of a marriage vow negates its proper use.
  1. I have no problems with the Crusades, which are just wars against Islamic aggression. However, when we consider the Inquisition, they have techniques for torturing people which make Guantanamo Bay look like boyscouts. Anyone knows that confessions made during torture are not valid.
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There’s so much wrong with this, I barely know where to start. Suggest you familiarize yourself with what actually happened during the Crusades and Inquisition. Try to use unbiased sources.
  1. Killing of heretics is murder. I don’t know what you call it but killing people who do not agree 100% with you is murder and a mortal sin. Considering the fact that there are 1 billion Catholics in the world, that makes 5 billion non-Catholics. And as there are 2 billion Christians (of all denominations) in the world, this makes 4 billion non-Christians. That is a lot of people to torture and kill.
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Please provide a link to a news story of the Catholic Church condoning the torturing and killing of heretics in modern times. Just one will do.

Boy, Fulton Sheen was right: ”There are not more than 100 people in the world who truly hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they perceive to be the Catholic Church. …As a matter of fact, if we Catholics believed all of the untruths and lies which were said against the Church, we probably would hate the Church a thousand times more than they do."

I submit that you do not know what Catholicism actually is.
 
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