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Originally posted by: PatboyX
well, my chicks family is mormon and i know why some of them dont like the catholic church: mary. the catholics sort of deify her (and many others, there are things that could be considered idols).
personally, my problem with the catholic church is their accepting attitude toward a number of horrifiying things that have been done within their organization. and if they werent as powerful, this would be widely unacceptable behavior.

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to answer amused question to my question...
becuase jews are the chosen people. and everyone is jealous of gods love.
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Just goes to show the Mormons ignorance. We do not Deify Mary. We revere her as the mother of Jesus Christ. She is counted among the saints and while we may pray for the Saint Mary to intercede with God on our behalf that does not in any way deify her. As far as the OP is concerned the fact is that many Christians of the protestant denominations think that only they are the only Christians. In their ignorance they forget that all the protestant denominations are splinters of the old Catholic church. If you subscribe to their logic there were no Christians at all until the time of Martin Luther.
 
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: DaiShan
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: PatboyX
Originally posted by: Amused
Read about the Protestant revolution and Martin Luther (not king) to understand.
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why do the lutherans hate the jews?
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Why do all sects of Christians/Catholics have a history of hating Jews?
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Whats with all the hate? I have never EVER once gone to any church where the preacher got up and said you should hate the jews or you should hate the catholics. Christianity is about tolerance. I might disagree with some of what the jews or the catholics believe in, but I don't hate them for it. We all worship the same God. My godmother is jewish, and went to my baptism, and I don't recall anyone stoning her for it...
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You've missed the point. Just because your particular sect does not preach hate in one form or another NOW, does not mean they have not done so in the past.
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No, you missed the point. You made the classic mistake of pushing the actions/thoughts of the few onto the masses. This is a common fallacy. Any time you think about using the term all in an argument you should try to think why you are using the term. Too often emotion has clouded judgment and the brain in a vain attempt to push a failing point across uses absolutes. And I guess you don't go to church, but its not "my sect" I've got to methodist, baptist, and presbyterian churches, they encompass a wider "sect" known as protestants, which this thread is about. I understand your point that "christians" and catholics in particular have a history of persecuting the jews for their beliefs, but this is not christianity, thats why I put the term in quotes. The bible does not say to hate jews, God has never told me to hate jews, so I don't. IMO the persecution can be attributed to secular reasons, and the majority of this persecution happened while the catholic church still had a great deal of secular power.
 
woshiping saints, persecution of the protestant church, more invovled in religion that spirit, believe that as long as you confess you can do anything... need i go on?
 
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
Originally posted by: Gurck
Yep, believe our only previous Catholic president was JFK, no? As far as the OP's question: I think it boils down to religion's need to put down someone else / some other religion as inferior / less holy / etc.. Just about any group has another group they hate.
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a bit oversimplifed version of 600 yrs of history wouldn't you say?
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Simplified and to the point.
 
Christians hate Catholics? Nope. That is an incorrect assumption. We disagree with their "ritualistic" ways, but in no way do we hate them. I am good friends with several Catholics, and I don't even close to hate them. I don't know where this inclination came from, but most of the time, unless the Christian is a bigot, Catholic, which are Christian, get along just fine.
 
Astaroth is right. If you read the Bible, God clearly states that worshipping any being other than Jesus or God, the Father, is idolatry. By praying to dead people (Mary and the saints), Catholics are performing idolatry.

I don't hate anything but I do dislike the Catholic church. Many things are taught in the Catholic church that are NOT in the Bible or are twisted versions of what you find in the Bible. However, most people would rather believe everything a fallable human is saying in a pulpit than actually go through the trouble of reading the source, The Bible.
 
Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged
Christians hate Catholics? Nope. That is an incorrect assumption. We disagree with their "ritualistic" ways, but in no way do we hate them. I am good friends with several Catholics, and I don't even close to hate them. I don't know where this inclination came from, but most of the time, unless the Christian is a bigot, Catholic, which are Christian, get along just fine.
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And we all know that hardly any are :roll:
 
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold


there are a few branches of christianity, but most christians fall under either Catholic or Protestant.

you might not know they are protestant but they are for example.

baptist
lutheran
episcopalian
7th day Adventist
Methodist
Church of God
Church of Christ

there are more but i just can't think of them at the moment.
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I would not classify Episcopalians as protestant. If you have to classify them as Catholic or Protestant, I would go with Catholic, how ever Anglican is better. And, trying to make everyone Catholic or Protestant is silly. Where do you put Russian Orthodox? Syrian Orthodox? Coptics? Greek Orthodox, etc...
 
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Because Catholics get it WRONG by deifying the Virgin Mary.
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Yep.

I don't like the ornate Catholic churches either. Give me a little church with a lot of soul. 😉
 
I find it amusing that so many non-Catholics profess to know what Catholics believe even after we've told them that it isn't so.

Silly me, I thought I knew what I believed. I guess not. But I'll probably just go right on thinking that Mary is not a god and neither are the saints even though you tell me that I don't think that.
 
Originally posted by: glen
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold


there are a few branches of christianity, but most christians fall under either Catholic or Protestant.

you might not know they are protestant but they are for example.

baptist
lutheran
episcopalian
7th day Adventist
Methodist
Church of God
Church of Christ

there are more but i just can't think of them at the moment.
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I would not classify Episcopalians as protestant. If you have to classify them as Catholic or Protestant, I would go with Catholic, how ever Anglican is better. And, trying to make everyone Catholic or Protestant is silly. Where do you put Russian Orthodox? Syrian Orthodox? Coptics? Greek Orthodox, etc...
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Russian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, Coptic and Greek Orthodox all predated the schism between Protestantism and Catholicism.

Episcopalians considered themselves protestants in the sense that they separated from the RC church, however they did it on Political grounds and not theological grounds, so how you define it determines what you consider them to be.

but in general the overwhelming majority of christians are protestant or Catholic.
 
Originally posted by: glen
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold


there are a few branches of christianity, but most christians fall under either Catholic or Protestant.

you might not know they are protestant but they are for example.

baptist
lutheran
episcopalian
7th day Adventist
Methodist
Church of God
Church of Christ

there are more but i just can't think of them at the moment.
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I would not classify Episcopalians as protestant. If you have to classify them as Catholic or Protestant, I would go with Catholic, how ever Anglican is better. And, trying to make everyone Catholic or Protestant is silly. Where do you put Russian Orthodox? Syrian Orthodox? Coptics? Greek Orthodox, etc...
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I've always grouped them as Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant (re: every other Christian religion founded after Martin Luther)
 
Well, I'm (atheist) sitting in a room with an Protestent and a Catholic. One thing I know for sure, 2 of us are going to hell.
 
Originally posted by: allisolm
I find it amusing that so many non-Catholics profess to know what Catholics believe even after we've told them that it isn't so.

Silly me, I thought I knew what I believed. I guess not. But I'll probably just go right on thinking that Mary is not a god and neither are the saints even though you tell me that I don't think that.
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Who are you to know what you believe? 😛
 
Originally posted by: allisolm
I find it amusing that so many non-Catholics profess to know what Catholics believe even after we've told them that it isn't so.

Silly me, I thought I knew what I believed. I guess not. But I'll probably just go right on thinking that Mary is not a god and neither are the saints even though you tell me that I don't think that.
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it's a matter of definitions.

mary has some of the functions that most protestants give only to Jesus Christ. Mary and the other saints can act in an intercessory role in the catholic dogma (of course that varies because as in any other religion there are significant differences among the different schools of thought in catholicism) where as for most protestants ONLY Jesus (a God) can act in the intercessory role.

of course, for catholics the Priest also acts in the Intercessory role, this to me, should offend protestants more than the prayers to the saints.
 
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Episcopalians considered themselves protestants in the sense that they separated from the RC church, however they did it on Political grounds and not theological grounds, so how you define it determines what you consider them to be.

but in general the overwhelming majority of christians are protestant or Catholic.
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A lot of Anglicans consider themselves Anglican or Catholic, just not "Roman."
They have nothign to do with Luther, so Protestant is really a mistake.
 
You know... the problem with most of the posts here is that they lump together all the people in one group as being of the same opinions... the problem is, this is the REAL world, and most people have their own beliefs/opinions/etc - not all Jews hate Christians, not all Muslims hate Jews, not all Christians hate Jews, etc., etc., - and another thing - whether you are Baptist, Catholic, or Church of Christ or what-have-you, they are not different religions, they are different denominations of Christianity. Within every group there are some people who, of course, hate people of other religions, but they aren't holding to God's Word in doing so - tolerance and understanding are the natural outgrowth of being a true Christian. Don't ever judge a group by one of its members, or vice versa... people can be Hindu and still respect Christians...

That is all, carry on.
 
you need to update your title. I think in place of Christians you need to put Protestant, seeing as how Catholics are Christians.
 
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

there are a few branches of christianity, but most christians fall under either Catholic or Protestant.
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"most" Christians?

Wow, talk about ignorance... there are 300 million people out there who are Christian Orthodox, and I believe that's more than the total population of the United States.

Not to mention the fact that you cannot say "Christians hate Catholics", since Catholics are Christian... Do Americans hate Texans?
 
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