I was fairly sure thats where he was referring to (I live there) I’m just not sure what he meant by the “Catholics aren’t Christians” comment.
btw tomndebb well said. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to tell people that the Troubles aren’t a religious conflict but primarily a political one. Not really peoples fault as the media and other authorities continually push the religious aspect. (Easy to fit into a short bulletin, easier to explain and understand and, if I’m being cynical easier for the powers-that-be to rub their hands off)
I have heard the “Catholics aren’t Christians” argument, but never that insert-name-of-Prostestant-group-here aren’t Christian, because they aren’t Catholic.
I have also heard the bit about if you’re not Catholic, you don’t belong to the “True” Church and hence, will burn eternally.
I don’t believe any of the above.
Aside: I almost never see Catholic anything on TV–I see mostly evangelical stuff.
Whoever told you that has their Catholic propaganda all mixed up.
It IS the position of the Catholic Church that non-Catholics do not share the fullness of the faith with Peter and the apostles and their successors, yes.
But it is also the position of the Church that no one knows who is in hell and who is not, or even if hell exists, and if it does, what its nature is.
Remember, the wages of sin is DEATH. Not hell. Jesus preached the destruction of sinners, not their torment.
If that’s what you got from the thread title, I’m not sure what he meant either. And I’m the one we’re referring to here. The OP may have been a bit vague (I tend to suffer that burden), but it’s my burden to suffer, so I’ll accept that.
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The impetus of the thread was to point out that not all Christianity is the same. I’m Catholic and expect some shit slung my way now and then, more so considering the millieu (did I use that word in the right way?) when I head into the Pit or GD here.
What torques my nut is when, all too often, something from Rome is used to slag every non-Catholic Christian faith. Attack my faith and any looniness you see if you so wish. Just don’t attribute that to Protestants.
At the same time, don’t attribute looniness from Protestants to the RC Church.
So often the two are mashed together when someone wants to bitch about God, that it seems many don’t see a difference in the two. The idea that all Catholics are Christian, but not all Christians are Catholic is seemingly accepted by the majority. However, there are a small but very vociferous group that just don’t get it.
Equating Pope John Paul II to Benny Hinn? Argument lost in my book.
I know this is supposed to be funny, but I don’t get it.
I don’t believe in any hell-except for the one we create for ourselves here on earth.
The ironic thing is that it is a lapsed Catholic (now fundamentalist) who told me that Catholics aren’t true Christians…and a supposedly devout Catholic who told me that non-Catholics were SOL when it came to eternity.
I haven’t even started on the Dutch Reformed that I know–for them, everyone else is going to hell (except them, of course)…
It’s farily humorous, if you think about it–all these people worrying about where they’ll end up–and mostly doing nothing to improve things in the here and now…
(I am speaking of individuals, not of churches/denominations here).
Which half? The list seems to list Protestant churches in one block, then Orthodox churches in the second block, then schismatic Catholic churches in the third.
