Quote: ethereal: catholics are crazy. They aren't Christians in my opinion.... The force women to breed, they worship idols, they want to be worshipped, not having sex is unnatural - so are they, they burned anyone for being smarter than them, they are sexist, they have to many rules, they are narrow thinkers, they fancy themselves the way to salvation, they are two faced and they are midieval, they should have died with ancient England.

Quote: Rango: Thy believe that the roseries are holy and they conduct prayer them and through "holly mary"
They follow the council of man and not the bible's concil.They do not want to be corrected because they think they are right in everything.They think statues are good, the trinity is true and that writen prayers are best heard.The bibke does not agree with all that

Quote: Samuel099: I heard this words from my grandmum always especially night and early morning when she woke up from bed. here it goes.

Holy marry
Mother of God
Pray for us sinner
Now and forever more amen.

Second verse. Holy marry full of grace now of thy ... forgetten

Quote: Rango:
That's what they do, they honor mary and yet Jesus himself never honored her during his maturity.He called her "woman" and not "mother".
They still call her virgin mary and yet she gave birth to Jesus.

Quote: Samuel099: Is catholic part of christians worship? If yes then why is it that they bow down before statues also believes in prayer beads, is there any prayer beads mention in the bible?

Im confused cause 60% of my relatives and families members in England do that.

Quote: Georginia: By creating this topic it mean only ur religion is true. Samuel ur name came from the bible u said. Which testament? The old or the new testament. Cos in the new testament we believe in Jesus our Saviour and God the Almighty Father. But u dont believe in Jesus as told n seen in other topic.

Quote: Ragnorak: Catholicism is one of several branches of Christianity, each with some distinct characteristics, traditions and doctrines. In the years and decades after Christ's death and resurrection, the message of Jesus was spread across the world by His disciples and other believers. Because these were different people with different ideas in distant locations, it was inevitable that some inconsistencies were going to emerge (remember this was before Twitter was invented).

Each branch of each religion contains doctrines that, to a neutral mind, are clearly man's wilful interpretation of divine guidance rather than actually being divine, and these are usually also where the differences lay. Indeed, there has been much persecution and bloodshed over such divergence under the same umbrella faith, for example in England where Catholics and Protestants took it in turns the be the victims and aggressors in the early modern period. Which is something Jesus would have been against, as His was a message of peace and tolerance.

Therefore, it is wise to focus on what unites us rather than what divides. For the record, I'm a Catholic. I see the pope as more of a political figure than a spiritual one, and don't think anyone on earth has the authority to speak for God. I don't really care about most doctrines and think all that matters is the core message of the Son of God and the principle of forgiveness He embodies. I also think people should be free to practice their faith in the way they know or are familiar with, if it doesn't do anyone else harm.