What do Catholics believe in?

What do Catholics believe in? Go!

I really just want to know, is Catholicism a sect of Christianity, what is the difference between Christians and Catholics? Why are there so many many versions of Christianity? I dont get it.

 

Hmm... write a long reply or give you a link, decisions, decisions...

Ha!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church

Just made life a tad easier.

 

If you pinch the pope he grants wishes!

 

Basically, the Catholic church was the original (a few other sects of christianity also claimed the title) sect of christianity. They believe that the pope is infallible. Priests can't get married, lots of other little things.

Then in the 1500's this dude named Martin Luther became fed up with the churces abuses, but still followed the Jesus thing. So he started the protestant movement. Most of the christians in North America are catholics or protestants.

 

I think you have to find the Viena Boys chior hot to be a good catholic.

 

bahahaha I knew I would get some sarcasm.

But that actually helps spence and pavel

 

Here's my impression. Man oh man am I gonna get some heat for this...

The Bible is mostly the Old Testament, a collection of mythic books largely about the Jews. It can be quite useful if you don't take it literally but rather as an allegory of morality. Then there's the New Testament that covers Jesus's life, lessons, and all the myths surrounding him. Unlike the tales of Noah and other earlier legends, the myths about Jesus are pretty much believed by a lot more than the zealots. The Bible is the center of most protestant religions.

Catholics took early Christianity and they flooded it with pomp and circumstance, installing a hierarchy of elected officials and throwing in all sorts of strange rituals that were never envisioned by the man who was the impetus of the religion, or even the Bible. All sorts of arbitrary things like not eating meat on Fridays and bizzare, even barbaric rituals like communion (drinking Jesus's blood and eating his flesh in the form of wine and crackers) were thrown in through the years. In the end, you have a "religion" that to an extent enslaves its followers to the whims of certain elected officials and whatever laws they want to pass. You have pedophile priests (they are not allowed to marry) and Nazi popes.

Protestantism developed in Europe during the middle half of the 2nd millenium and is basically descendant of anti-Catholic movements during that period. They focus more in the Bible and do not require priests to interpret it for them. England and Holland were hot places for anti-Catholic dissent and wars erupted between them and the Catholic powers such as Spain and Portugal. The United States was originally settled by Puritans, a Protestant denomination that fled England after abuses by the dominant Protestant religion there. So in essense, America was founded by a bunch of people who protested the protesters. Religion was pretty bare-bones in the Plymouth settlement.

 

catholics spend alot of time praying to the mother of jesus, mary...... she is pretty much the matriarch of all the church.... I didnt realize it was that big of a deal to pray to mary the mother of christ, until all these non-catholics wondered why mary is such a huge presence.... no other form of christianity puts such an emphysis on her.

 

The pope was a member of Hitler Youth.

 

The thing is, I and my sister and brother were all baptized Catholic, just because its what my family 'does', but we're not. Im pretty sure my brother and mother are athiests, I am spiritual, definitely agnostic, and my dad is spiritual or something random...were pretty anti religion...so I have no clue.

 

there are alot of catholics that turn into atheists

 

You ever noticed all the vaginal symoblism with Mary the virgin?

The images were taken from a Hindu fertility godess, who was also known as Sara-Kali in gypsy tradition in France. (black virgin, virgin mary)

The images were later claimed by the catholic church to be Mary, the mother of Jesus. The two traditions are so intertwined it's very difficult to sort it out.

 

When I was eleven, I walked into a church to ask the priest how I could become un-catholic, because my true calling was paganism

 

We can make love in the confession booth. :H

 

Done! I want to wear a rosary for effect

 

And then we can do it in the holy water. People can be blessed in our love.

 

you know what you can really do with rosary beads.......

 

Sure that's all well and good. But can it beat...

Baby jesus butt plug?

 

that is just blasphemous enough to be sexy

 

Right. I think sex is the best when it means hell is your destiny.