Catholic Religion - The Myths About the Catholic Religion1903233
I am a Catholic and very proud to be. I hope that was not sufficient to make you stop reading this post. Generally it only requires the fact that I am Catholic for these that are not Catholic to stop talking to me about religion. This is because we are all human and I have to admit that I do not have the deepest understanding of many various religions, but I would like to clear up a couple of of the myths about the Catholic religion.
First, Catholics do not worship statues. This is a myth and one of the most well-liked ones. Many protestants want you use this myth to say that Catholics worship idols, but this is just not true. Why do we have statues in the Catholic church? Simple, back when there was not the fantastic printing press and bibles were more expensive than most men's wages for 3 years, the Catholics utilized statues to teach their kids about the bible.
If you think about it for a minute and you image the statues in the Catholic churches you will realize that they all have to do with one of the passages from the bible. This produced it a lot easier to teach children about the bible. It is visual and a parent can inform the story that the statues or stained glass windows represent to their kids.
Second, Catholics worship Mary and the Saints. This is so false that it nearly tends to make me laugh. Anybody that says that Catholics worship Mary or Saints requirements to study more about the Catholic religion prior to you start telling us what we believe. Certain we pray to the saints and to Mary, but why would we not. It only makes sense to ask these that are up in heaven to pray for you. We ask our family members to pray for us and our buddies to pray for us, so why not the saints and Mary.
On another note about Mary. The forth commandment is to honor thy father and thy mother. So if we are all the brothers and the sisters of Jesus Christ, then Mary is our mother and we are supposed to honor her as well, correct?
Last, the Catholic church thinks they are better than all other faiths and is above them. This is an attitude that comes from HUMAN BEINGS, not the Catholic church. The one factor I run into much more than any other thing is that the Catholic church did some thing, like molest small boys. You have to understand that even Priests are HUMAN BEINGS, they sin. We are all humans and this indicates that the Catholic church is also not hypocritical because that is the HUMAN BEINGS in the church not the Catholic religion.
