Why you hate catholics

I am a devoted catholic and never see myself changing.

now, I would like to understand the differences and the reason why many other Christian faith hate of my faith so much. all my life growing up, I have been harassed by my peers and torment me with...

questions I, at the time, had little answers to give.

I would like to know, what is it that you hate about us Catholics?

beliefs?
traditions?
etc?

I want to know what YOU have been told about us that caused you to hate me!

I don't hate you. In my immediate family, there is 1 hardcore Catholic, one atheist, one agnostic Baptist, one generic Christian, and one don't know don't care.

If I had to choose between Catholics and Baptists to hang out with, Catholics would win hands down.

Im christian but I don't hate your religion I don't even know anything about them to hate not every christian hates catholics only the ones you came into contact with that hates catholics

I can't hate Catholics or any religion. I am personally a happy Catholic. I know what you mean. My sister-in-law has been receiving negative questions since she decided to be Catholic. My brother is very devout and she is too now. My husband is Baptist but he watches all the Catholic tv he can to inform himself. He likes our faith very much. I once stood in a line where this girl started yelling that she was immersed in holy water not just sprinkled. I think it is just ignorance that leads to hate. Just like in discrimination of color so is discrimination of religious belief. It's the cross we bare just like Jesus did.

I've never met anybody who has a problem with me because I'm catholic or anyone who hates catholics.

I do not believe in any god or religious doctrine. I even think that religion can be very damaging in some peoples life and I actively fight religious injustice (and as it turns out, the Catholic church provides lots of issues that deserve to be hated with a passion: clerical sexual abuse, educational indoctrination, abuse of power, historical cultural hypocrisy, etc).
However, living in Ireland, virtually all my neighbours and most of my friends are Catholics. I grew up with Catholics, played with them, made love with them and cried with them and if one would generalize, they are the most tolerant, helpful and generous bunch of 'lunies' I know.

I don't hate Catholics- I don't hate any religion.

As a jew, I always found it interesting that many christians don't consider catholics to be christian.
To a jew, if you believe in christ, you are christian, or gentile as I like to say.

Thank you utopia for telling it like it is. We are ousted in this subtle way sometimes because if you say you are Christian than the assumption is that Catholics aren't Christian too.

I was also under the impression that Catholics are Christian. Around here it is considered the same thing, Catholics are just another Christian denomination. As the for you question.. I think most Christians seem to have a problem with the catholic's way of doing things e.g. how they pray and who they pray to (I hope I am correct, but don't catholics pray through Mary??)

Yes. She would be closest to God if she was chosen by Him to be mother of Jesus His only son she should be closest. We pray through her not to her. We don't have pagan beliefs either. We have pictures and statues as reminders and nothing else. You look at your family pics as a reminder of who they were not that you worship them either. It's a deep misunderstood concept.

okay..
I'm a christian. And I certainly don't hate catholics.
But here's the thing now days... People have simply forgotten about christ and focus primarily on how they think churches should be. And I know that some christians don't think catholic churches are the way they should be... same goes for catholics. some don't believe the christian church is the way it should be. My dad is a preacher so I've been around churches my whole life... and as wrong as it is... not all.. but many.. catholics AND christians have simply lost the message of God... The church is simply getting to caught up in itself.

Thats why some you think christians hate your religion.. they don't... but its easy to mistake their behavior as hatred.

I think that is where the problem comes in, many people don't UNDERSTAND, especially Christians from other dominations. My one friend decided to turn to the Catholic denomination the other day, because it agreed most with what he believed in and immediately he had 10 other christian friends on his case.

You should also remember that when it comes to religion many people are close-minded, they want you to believe what they believe and unfortunately Catholics is quite different from the other Christian denominations and Christians struggle to accept that.

Im SIB its like the Basels...well I dont hate chatolic...what maybe bugging you is people always have question on what is the difference...Cathoilic is christian but I dont know that if this a study of christian, but christian have 3 types, protestant(sib,basel...), roman catholic, (and another that I forgot, maybe SDA)...but just be patient and beleive in God...

we christains don't hate catholics.we just get tired of you guys not noticing that some of your beliefs are wrong and should be correctd

No Christians hate Catholics but they do hate Catholicism. In fact many people think Catholicism is just another one of those many Christian denominations. Though that is what is is presented as it cannot be one.

The main problem with Catholicism is that it is not Biblical. The main problem with Catholics is that they don't read the Bible.

So calderoh you must read the Bible if you need to know the truth.

***we christains don't hate catholics.we just get tired of you guys not noticing that some of your beliefs are wrong and should be correctd***

Elaborate please, also Christianity DIFFERS A LOT between all denominations, so by saying that you're denomination is the right one, you are saying all the other Christian denominations are wrong.

I am a Catholic and yes I do read the bible. Every Catholic I know reads the bible. We read the bible at church, so enternallife, please stop making statements about Catholism that are just not correct.

There are differences in the way we worship God at church and such but our more important beliefs, the ones that are most fundemental to us are the same as any other Christian denomination and im not saying that im right to a Catholic and that other Christians are wrong (actually, in most cases it feels like its other Christians telling me that I am wrong) for me its just what I feel comfortable withChristianity in general feels right to me no matter what denomination you are, its just that some of us express ourselves and our beliefs in different ways and I dont see whats wrong with that.

I'm Catholic and I fully agree with luthien. Most of the things that Christians dislike about Catholics are things they do not fully understand. And the disagreement about justification by faith alone also hinders the ability of Christians and Catholics to agree with and understand each other. I personally am sick of protestants telling me why I am wrong when they don't fully understand things themselves. Some are understanding, but others make judgments and assumptions based on false information and stereotypes of the Catholic Church.

I am a Catholic and have personally witnessed ignorant attacks on the Catholic Church, although I agree that not all protestants hate the Church. However, I am sick of protestants telling me why I am wrong about things they can't even begin to understand. They base their facts on loose and false information and stereotypes of the Church. They rarely look into the actual facts and spread the lies about the Church to their buddies who then go and use entertaining church services to draw people in and team up against the Catholic Church. Not all protestants do this, but a number of them do, and I'm absolutely sick of adults being so bigoted and ignorant.

CATHOLICS ALWAYS FEEL THE NEED TO PUSH THEIR VIEWS ON EVERYONE ELSE.
CASE: TRYING TO STOP SAME SEX MARRIAGE.
IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN IT, THEN DON'T DO IT BUT IT'S NONE OF YOUR PEOPLE'S BUSINESS WHAT EVERYONE ELSE DOES. IF YOU WANT TO BELIEVE IN SOME RIDICULOUS ALL KNOWING GUY IN THE SKY, THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM. DON'T MAKE IT EVERYONE ELSE'S.