Catholic Religion - The Myths About the Catholic Religion4712349
I am a Catholic and extremely proud to be. I hope that was not enough to make you stop reading this article. Generally it only takes the reality that I am Catholic for those that are not Catholic to quit speaking to me about religion. This is simply because we are all human and I have to admit that I do not have the deepest understanding of numerous various religions, but I would like to clear up a few of the myths about the Catholic religion.
First, Catholics do not worship statues. This is a myth and 1 of the most well-liked ones. Numerous protestants want you use this myth to say that Catholics worship idols, but this is just not accurate. Why do we have statues in the Catholic church? Simple, back when there was not the great printing press and bibles had been much more expensive than most men's wages for three years, the Catholics utilized statues to teach their children about the bible.
If you think about it for a minute and you picture the statues in the Catholic churches you will understand that they all have to do with one of the passages from the bible. This produced it a lot simpler to teach kids 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. Anyone that says that Catholics worship Mary or Saints needs to study more about the Catholic religion before you start telling us what we believe. Certain we pray to the saints and to Mary, but why would we not. It only tends to make sense to ask those that are up in heaven to pray for you. We ask our family members 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 1 factor I run into much more than any other factor is that the Catholic church did something, like molest small boys. You have to understand that even Priests are HUMAN BEINGS, they sin. We are all humans and this means that the Catholic church is also not hypocritical because that is the HUMAN BEINGS in the church not the Catholic religion.
