# Catholics aren't really Christian?  Huh?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 23, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholics-arent-really-christian-huh/610350 "2012-01-23T00:51:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholics-arent-really-christian-huh/610350/102 "2012-01-28T13:24:41Z")

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> [@Skammer](#):
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> Asking saints to intercede for you is no different, really, than asking your friends or family members to pray for you. It’s not a sign of lack of trust in God to do good. When you ask your best friend to pray to God for you, no one accuses you of worshipping your friend.
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> (I’m not RCC and don’t venerate saints but I understand the reasoning behind the practice).

I am not a Christian, but I would expect a supreme being to be better to his childern than me. I would never give my child anything I knew would harm them nor would I hold anything back that I knew for certain would harm them, nor do they need to beg me for what they need if i know what it is. and if they begged me for their daily necessities or had to beg me for medical attention when they were sick I would think something is wrong with me. Since I am not all knowng(like an all knowing supreme being I can only guess at what they need. but to me an all knowing God should automatically give the necessary things and hold back anything harmful. And i would expect a loving father that is all knowing wouldn’t need them to even ask.

I have found in my life that I just do the best i can,and most things work out well for me, I know that there are things I cannot control. I also realize that when a person had a slight pneumonia or even the measlesyears ago they died, no matter how much people prayed, and so many died of polio before the Salk vaccine was available. I had a small brother die of meningiitis as did many during that time.  
To me if a prayer helps a persn to accept what comes it is not bad, I just think it is unnecessary, the out come could be the same.

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**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholics-arent-really-christian-huh/610350/103 "2012-01-31T00:54:47Z")

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I have been thinking about this a bit and it would seem that if you recognize Jesus as the last and true messiah then you are a christian. Now that leaves a lot of leeway of course.

There are even people [like me] who call them selves cultural christians.

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