How Come Protestants Don't Think Catholics Are Christians?

[Maximus Rex]

The other day I was at the school I got my A.A. degree from and I was talking to the SGA president. Potna was telling me he got accepted to Seton Hall and he has to take some religion classes and he was asking if they were mandatory. I was like, "Yeah they are mandatory. After all it is a Catholic school." Then do was like, "But oh, I'm a Christian." Then ya boy Rex says, "Dude, Catholics are Christians. They started this Christianity sh*t." Lord forgive me for saying it like, forgive my digression.

This is the failings of the public school system and something you learn in 7th grade History and your 9th grade Global class. How do cats not know basic history of Christianity which is taught in school. You had followers of Jesus (who were basically Jews for Jesus,) that would include Saint Peter'em. They still practiced and kept all of the Jewish holidays, with the exception of they believe that Jesus was the Messiah.

After early Christians broke from Judaism, the Jews for Jesus formed what eventually became the Catholic church. Then you have the Schism in 1054 in which eastern Europe broke from the Church, then in 1547, you had the Protestant Reformation in Western Europe broke from the Church while the southern European nations remained Catholic.

I say all of that to say this, for most of the Church's history, (especially in Western Europe,) if you were a Christian, you were default a Catholic. Also, the only reason why the United States isn't a Catholic nation is because Pope Clement VII didn't grant Henry VIII his annulment to Catherine of Aragon. Henry said "F*ck y'all. I'll start my own church and make myself the head of it."

 

[Stagger Lee]

Most protestants understand that Catholics were the earlier Christians and disagree with some of their interpretations and the way Catholicism was evolving. That's why they broke off into a different denomination many years ago.

My problem with the Catholic church today is some of them are receiving government money to settle "refugees" throughout the US (I realize some protestants are doing that too) and encouraging illegal immigration and Hispanics to overpopulate.

Probably public schools today teach nothing about Christianity or anything positive about European history. I'm sure they mention how great Arabs and muslims are though. I remember in college in the 90's that happened.

 

[amoka]

Religion, Christianity in particular, is a lucrative business. The more followers (customers) you have, the higher the profit margin. The only difference is that unlike business, profit is guaranteed in religion as there will always be gullible followers.

 

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Religion, Christianity in particular, is a lucrative business. The more followers (customers) you have, the higher the profit margin. The only difference is that unlike business, profit is guaranteed in religion as there will always be gullible followers.

Kind of like waves and waves of little cultural Marxist sh!tlibs ready to punish the bad man(and his wallet) for the crime of wrong-think?

Lets not pretend we didn't simply substitute one religion for another in our quest to demonize and ultimately destroy European Christendom. Western countries are more religious now than they have ever been.

 

[Darth]

The Catholic Church has always been the original Christian Church.

For centuries before the word "Protestant" was a twinkle in anyone's eye, the Catholic Church was it.

St. Peter, one of the 12 apostles, was the 1st Catholic Pope.

History is on the side of the Catholics on this issue.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

I believe the subtle difference is that Christians recognize ONLY the Bible, while Catholics recognize what they call the "Magisterium" which is the teachings of the ENTIRE system, of which the Bible is a part, but so is divine preachings of the Pope, bishops, catechisms, etc.

Even the word "Cathedral" is based the Latin "cathedra" which literally means "Chair," meaning the chair the pope sits in. When he speaks "ex-cathedra" (from the chair) he is literally divining God's word. "Cathedral" literally means "house of the chair."

Basically "Christians" recognize ancient texts as their source of God, while "Catholics" recognize ancient texts as well as a bunch of boy-buggering dudes and Jesuit hippy communists making stuff up as they go along.

From the "Christian" perspective, the Catholic Church is much more "cult-like" than religion like.

If you want to get into history, the whole system was rigged from the beginning, Roman leaders leveraging early christian faith, etc, and blending it into Roman Rule, later becoming the Holy Roman Empire.

The word "Protestant" is from "protest" (obviously) and all started with Martin Luther angry that church leaders were literally selling tickets into heaven to rich fvckers who'd stolen and killed their way to wealth.

It's absolutely POINTLESS to argue any specific religion because they are all hopelessly corrupt.

Now, individual churches / communities / good pastors, etc, that's a different story altogether.

 

[Maximus Rex]

probably because if you ask most Catholics if they are Christian they will say well I'm a Catholic...if you ask a Protestant the same thing they won't hesitate to say that they are Christian

Protestants identify with their denominations. The only ones who don't are people who go to non-denominational churches.

 

[Mike32ct]

probably because if you ask most Catholics if they are Christian they will say well I'm a Catholic...if you ask a Protestant the same thing they won't hesitate to say that they are Christian

Yeah that's the common usage of the terms.