Catholic Religion - The Myths About the Catholic Religion4858980
I am a Catholic and extremely proud to be. I hope that was not enough to make you stop reading this post. Usually it only requires the reality that I am Catholic for these that are not Catholic to stop speaking 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 different religions, but I would like to clear up a few of the myths about the Catholic religion.
Initial, Catholics do not worship statues. This is a myth and 1 of the most popular ones. Numerous 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? Easy, back when there was not the fantastic printing press and bibles had been more costly than most men's wages for three years, the Catholics used statues to teach their kids about the bible.
If you think about it for a minute and you picture the statues in the Catholic churches you will realize that they all have to do with 1 of the passages from the bible. This produced it much simpler 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. Anyone that says that Catholics worship Mary or Saints needs to study much 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 tends to make sense to ask these 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, right?
Last, the Catholic church thinks they are much better than all other faiths and is above them. This is an attitude that comes from HUMAN BEINGS, not the Catholic church. The one thing 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 indicates that the Catholic church is also not hypocritical because that is the HUMAN BEINGS in the church not the Catholic religion.
