am i the only one who thinks the catholic religion is wrong?
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dont forget prayer to saints
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yes I am Catholic - and tho money is on my mind in regards to bills and trying to provide for the future - I am very frugal - have to be... I am happily married - so the sex issue is within a happy marriage and not seeking outside bounds of God's commandments. I know it is frustrating and hurtful to see the anti-Catholic and anti-Christian posts - but you aren't alone out here! prayerfully .... KC
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There are hundreds of religions, and most of them claim that all of the others are wrong.\n\nTake your pick.
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i'm catholic and i feel the same way!\ni think that theres way too much emphasis on ritual (church practices, sacraments, masses, etc.) and whether or not the bible is word for word true in a literal sense, and not enough emphasis on just being a good person on a day to day basis. i could go on, but i'm betting you already think the same way about a lot of this stuff.
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Doesn't all this ruckus from the Church seem like overkill to you? I haven't seen the Catholic Church so worked up over a movie since The Last Temptation Of Christ. And I haven't seen the Catholic Church so scared since those pedophilia scandals. Maybe the ideas in the book are not so far fetched after all.
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Yes, Midge. there is and we have to stop it. Especially us Catholics. We can't just change the whole doctrine of the church just for "Tolerance" and "Appeasement" . We need to keep our church whole and traditional. The Catholic church has been pretty black and white in the past, now some of it is becoming gray. I hardly hear much in my church anymore about pro-life issues. Only the small groups do anything about it, but it is no longer preached. What's happening here? Can't be a liberal Catholic!\nGod Bless and Merry Christmas to you!
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i am catholic but i believe most of what you said especially the end part. people trust catholicism for the same reason they trust any other religion (i don't know why i follow the religion i am just guided) people use religion because they have weak minds and hearts. there is nothing wrong with this but religion gives them somethin to hold onto. someone in history i believe it was Marx or Stalin said the church was the "opiate of the masses"
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Yes,you're very right to say so.Many religions are wrong but there try is to abuse other religions.Many religions have wrong laws and teachings but they always try to attack on other religion.
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My values based on my religious belief makes me say yes it is wrong. However i do not impose my beliefs on others.  So I will also mention that is is widely excepted.  I pose the question to you, if this is your decision how do you feel about it?
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No, they really don't,  and sadly, i doubt they ever will.  It's a fundamental part of their religion now, not to understand what they do.  Nowhere in the Bible does it say to worship saints, or to confess to another sinner about your sins--whether he's wearing a fancy robe or not.\n\nThat's why I'm non-denominational, I go to a Bible Church and I read exactly what the English translation says.  Nobody has a right to teach their own opinions on God and what he says and does.\n\nAnd Catholics worship Mary becausethey think that Jesus is God, and Mary was the mother of Jesus, so Mary is the mother of God.  Hate to break my tone of intelligent commentary, but that's just silly.  Mary was a sinner like everyone else, she was probably thinking when they kicked her out of the inn, "buncha l3@$T@ l^D$, i'm about to pregnant with your savior and you can't find room!?  Well then kick somebody out, I'm Mary dammit!"\nShe was just the mortal chosen to bring him into the world, that's all.\nIt was a holy game of chess, and Mary was a pawn used to put the king of the red team in check and send him running in fear behind his last pieces, but that doesn't mean the pawn deserves any worship--she's just a pawn.  She followed God's will, (she's so lucky).  No crying he makes!? WTF!, that's not fair at ALL!  she got to be the mother of the perfect child, not the well behaved one, not the nice one, not the smart one; she got to be the mother of the perfect child, that should be payment enough for her.
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This is EXACTLY how you should feel and I don't blame you a bit. I'm not catholic, but I have been wondering the same things. Why aren't more people in an uproar about this??
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It's a good question, but phrasing it that way will upset a Catholic, because the question is loaded... by asking it that way you are already implying that they doing something wrong (compared to other religions who might interpret adoration as worshiping false-gods).  \n\nStatues have long just part of the Catholic religion, and it's there for visual inspiration.  It' like asking a christian why their symbol is cross.  It's part of the iconography.
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I think you're confusing Christians with Catholics.
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Is the Pope Catholic?! By golly Miss Molly, of course Bob can fix it!!!! LoL--Yeah, maybe there was a BIT of sarcasm there...! Haha =)
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I agree. This whole Catholic Church priest thing has gotten ridiculous. As if the Catholic Church is the only religion who has this problem. I think it has to do with people not understanding the need for Priests to be celibate and assuming that's leads to pedophillia, which it doesn't.
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Lanani has eloquently provided the right answer and has earned the points.  That said, I would just like to elaborate a bit further:  Despite "Christian" protestations to the contrary, Catholics, like Baptists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, etc are ALL Christians.  Despite whatever problems we all may have with the Catholic Church, keep in mind for more than a thousand years they were the Catholics were the ONLY Christians around. If you were Christian, you WERE Catholic.  Nuff said.  \n\nAdditionally, the Catholic Church you love to hate on are the ones who put together the Bible you love to quote from.  THEY picked which gospels went in (there were more than 4 to choose from, you know) and which ones to keep out.  They compile the letters of Paul, and they added in the Revelation of John.  The Catholic Church has picked exactly which words you take literally and choose to live from, every day.  So smarten up.\n\nSecondly, to the two people who said she shouldn't change but he should, um, why is that?  What's with the arbitrary decision making there? Not that either way is right or either way is wrong, that's not for me to say, but how can one be right and one be wrong?\n\nFinally, to all those who ripped on her grammar and spelling, lol.  Some of you did it cleverly and some crudely, but I think you all got your point across.  That's just how it is these days, so chill.\n\nHope this helps--\nJ.
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Catholicism is a branch of Christianity.  Not believing in the Bible defeats the purpose of Christianity.  You can't claim to be a Christian yet not believe in the one book that Christianity is all about.