Here's all the reasons I can think of why you should be Catholic

[Billy_Kinetta]

There's only one good reason to be Catholic (or a follower of any other religion), and that is because you think the religion is the truth.

Faith is of God. Religion is of man. IMHO.

Isn't everything humans are involved in "of man"?

For you, it may be.

 

[Montrovant]

I knew this thread would bring out the bigots to take pot shots at the Catholic Church. There's a lot of anti-Catholic bigotry in this country, which is majority Protestant, and also we're the least favorite religion among the atheists and secularists.

I'm not sure what makes you think you are the least favorite religion among atheists and secularists.

 

[Blackrook]

There's only one good reason to be Catholic (or a follower of any other religion), and that is because you think the religion is the truth.

Faith is of God. Religion is of man. IMHO.

I've heard Protestants say stuff like that, but Protestants have religion just as much as any Catholic.

 

[aaronleland]

"Remember how we diddled children for centuries? Yeah, we gave that up months ago. Nothing to see here."

I don't believe there is a Catholic in the world who has done anything for centuries. I see the hatred is strong with you.

I don't hate anybody of any religion. I have a lot of respect for them, but find many of their beliefs silly. I respect more than anything their devotion despite constant attacks from people like me who just don't understand it.

 

[Blackrook]

I knew this thread would bring out the bigots to take pot shots at the Catholic Church. There's a lot of anti-Catholic bigotry in this country, which is majority Protestant, and also we're the least favorite religion among the atheists and secularists.

I'm not sure what makes you think you are the least favorite religion among atheists and secularists.

Watch a George Carlin act, and you'll see what I'm talking about.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

There's only one good reason to be Catholic (or a follower of any other religion), and that is because you think the religion is the truth.

Faith is of God. Religion is of man. IMHO.

I've heard Protestants say stuff like that, but Protestants have religion just as much as any Catholic.

Many do. Many do not. Those cannot be accurately called Protestants.

 

[Moonglow]

Is wanking still a mortal sin for Catholics, I wonder.

Not if you do it till you need glasses...

 

[Meriweather]

For you, it may be.

It is a matter of noticing that people who decide they want God only on their own, convenient, personal terms offer the excuse of, "Religion is of man." When people stop going to work, school, the grocery store or a picnic because these activities are "of man" I might take the excuse more seriously.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Catholics are like any denomination, you have good members and bad members. I see both in our parish

 

[theDoctorisIn]

I knew this thread would bring out the bigots to take pot shots at the Catholic Church. There's a lot of anti-Catholic bigotry in this country, which is majority Protestant, and also we're the least favorite religion among the atheists and secularists.

I'm not sure what makes you think you are the least favorite religion among atheists and secularists.

Because Rook loves to think of himself as a victim in every possible way he can.

As a lifelong atheist/secularist, I generally get along with and like Catholics a lot - more so than with many other religious groups.

Blackrook, is of course, a fuckwit, and an exception to the rule.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Because you love to be controlled

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

For you, it may be.

It is a matter of noticing that people who decide they want God only on their own, convenient, personal terms offer the excuse of, "Religion is of man." When people stop going to work, school, the grocery store or a picnic because these activities are "of man" I might take the excuse more seriously.

Please make sense so that I can respond.

 

[guno]

I won't give you any standard reasons, I will give you MY personal reasons.

1) Catholicism is the biggest religion, with one billion people all over the world. Wherever you go, there will be a church and community to welcome you.

2) Catholicism is the most normal religion. You don't have to wear a funny hat or special underwear. You don't have to take unusual days off. You don't have to go door to door and give people pamphlets. You don't have to believe the world is about to end.

3) Our holidays are the regular holidays you celebrate anyways, Christmas, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, St. Valentine's Day, even Halloween comes from us, because it's the night before All Saint's Day.

4) The only inconvenience is that you can't eat meat on Fridays during Lent. But all the restaurants have their fish specials during Lent to accommodate us.

5) If you raise your kids Catholic, they may stray from it, but it's unlikely they will join some crazy cult to fill that empty hole in their hearts. Catholicism fills that hole very nicely. And some day, your kids will probably go back to being Catholic, because they will want to raise their kids Catholic.

6) Catholics have the best schools. and many top universities are Catholic. Catholics don't pay as much to get in.

7) Going to Confession is the bomb. It really makes you feel good to get it all off your chest, and see that bored look on the priest's face when you realize he's not at all impressed by your sins.

8) Eucharist is also the bomb. If you really believed in it, really believed, you would want it every day.

9) We're not really all that strict on many things the Protestants are strict about. We're allowed to drink alcohol, smoke, dance, go to parties, play Dungeons & Dragons, listen to rock music, dress up for Halloween, etc.

10) Catholics don't have any strange rules that you're not allowed to get health care, go to the doctor, or get blood transfusions. In fact, there are thousands or maybe tens of thousands Catholic hospitals all over the world.

11) If you want to get involved, that's an option. But if you want to just show up on Sunday, throw a few bucks in the basket, and leave, you can do that too. There's no peer pressure to do more than you want to do.

12) If you're gay, no one really cares. Just don't show up with your same-sex marriage certificate and wave it in the priest's face, because then you're in the same league as the Catholic who got divorced and remarried.

13) If you've had an abortion, go to confession and begin your healing process. The Church has a wonderful program called Rachel's Vineyard.

14) All that stuff about the priests and altar boys is horrible, but I think it's been dealt with. I am not seeing more stories pop up, while before, it was popping up all the time. Safeguards are now in place.

That's all for now. We will probably see guno's contribution here, but he is a complete moron and should be ignored. If I was a Jew, I would be ashamed to have guno as a fellow Jew.

And the have fancy red carpets and lots of gold statues. And many of their priests are not what you would expect from the clergy.

 

[Blackrook]

I knew this thread would bring out the bigots to take pot shots at the Catholic Church. There's a lot of anti-Catholic bigotry in this country, which is majority Protestant, and also we're the least favorite religion among the atheists and secularists.

I'm not sure what makes you think you are the least favorite religion among atheists and secularists.

Because Rook loves to think of himself as a victim in every possible way he can.

As a lifelong atheist/secularist, I generally get along with and like Catholics a lot - more so than with many other religious groups.

Blackrook, is of course, a fuckwit, and an exception to the rule.

Has it occurred to you that calling me a "fuckwit" undermines your statement that you generally get along with people?

I'm going to guess that there's lots of people you don't get along with.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

I knew this thread would bring out the bigots to take pot shots at the Catholic Church. There's a lot of anti-Catholic bigotry in this country, which is majority Protestant, and also we're the least favorite religion among the atheists and secularists.

I'm not sure what makes you think you are the least favorite religion among atheists and secularists.

Because Rook loves to think of himself as a victim in every possible way he can.

As a lifelong atheist/secularist, I generally get along with and like Catholics a lot - more so than with many other religious groups.

Blackrook, is of course, a fuckwit, and an exception to the rule.

Has it occurred to you that calling me a "fuckwit" undermines your statement that you generally get along with people?

I'm going to guess that there's lots of people you don't get along with.

I'm going to guess that I get along with a lot more people in the real world than you do.

 

[Blackrook]

I knew this thread would bring out the bigots to take pot shots at the Catholic Church. There's a lot of anti-Catholic bigotry in this country, which is majority Protestant, and also we're the least favorite religion among the atheists and secularists.

I'm not sure what makes you think you are the least favorite religion among atheists and secularists.

Because Rook loves to think of himself as a victim in every possible way he can.

As a lifelong atheist/secularist, I generally get along with and like Catholics a lot - more so than with many other religious groups.

Blackrook, is of course, a fuckwit, and an exception to the rule.

Has it occurred to you that calling me a "fuckwit" undermines your statement that you generally get along with people?

I'm going to guess that there's lots of people you don't get along with.

I'm going to guess that I get along with a lot more people in the real world than you do.

This is a political forum, but in every thread you abandon the political argument and make it a personal attack on me. Perhaps you have no political argument, or you think you would lose if you stuck to political argument.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

I knew this thread would bring out the bigots to take pot shots at the Catholic Church. There's a lot of anti-Catholic bigotry in this country, which is majority Protestant, and also we're the least favorite religion among the atheists and secularists.

I'm not sure what makes you think you are the least favorite religion among atheists and secularists.

Because Rook loves to think of himself as a victim in every possible way he can.

As a lifelong atheist/secularist, I generally get along with and like Catholics a lot - more so than with many other religious groups.

Blackrook, is of course, a fuckwit, and an exception to the rule.

Has it occurred to you that calling me a "fuckwit" undermines your statement that you generally get along with people?

I'm going to guess that there's lots of people you don't get along with.

I'm going to guess that I get along with a lot more people in the real world than you do.

This is a political forum, but in every thread you abandon the political argument and make it a personal attack on me. Perhaps you have no political argument, or you think you would lose if you stuck to political argument.

There's nothing political about this thread, and there's no reason for me to not respond to your attacks in kind.

 

[Blackrook]

I'm not sure what makes you think you are the least favorite religion among atheists and secularists.

Because Rook loves to think of himself as a victim in every possible way he can.

As a lifelong atheist/secularist, I generally get along with and like Catholics a lot - more so than with many other religious groups.

Blackrook, is of course, a fuckwit, and an exception to the rule.

Has it occurred to you that calling me a "fuckwit" undermines your statement that you generally get along with people?

I'm going to guess that there's lots of people you don't get along with.

I'm going to guess that I get along with a lot more people in the real world than you do.

This is a political forum, but in every thread you abandon the political argument and make it a personal attack on me. Perhaps you have no political argument, or you think you would lose if you stuck to political argument.

There's nothing political about this thread, and there's no reason for me to not respond to your attacks in kind.

OK, but don't pretend you're better than me.

 

[Indeependent]

Because Rook loves to think of himself as a victim in every possible way he can.

As a lifelong atheist/secularist, I generally get along with and like Catholics a lot - more so than with many other religious groups.

Blackrook, is of course, a fuckwit, and an exception to the rule.

Has it occurred to you that calling me a "fuckwit" undermines your statement that you generally get along with people?

I'm going to guess that there's lots of people you don't get along with.

I'm going to guess that I get along with a lot more people in the real world than you do.

This is a political forum, but in every thread you abandon the political argument and make it a personal attack on me. Perhaps you have no political argument, or you think you would lose if you stuck to political argument.

There's nothing political about this thread, and there's no reason for me to not respond to your attacks in kind.

OK, but don't pretend you're better than me.

Because, after all, religion is a popularity contest.

 

[HaShev]

I won't give you any standard reasons, I will give you MY personal reasons.

1) Catholicism is the biggest religion, with one billion people all over the world. Wherever you go, there will be a church and community to welcome you.

2) Catholicism is the most normal religion. You don't have to wear a funny hat or special underwear. You don't have to take unusual days off. You don't have to go door to door and give people pamphlets. You don't have to believe the world is about to end.

3) Our holidays are the regular holidays you celebrate anyways, Christmas, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, St. Valentine's Day, even Halloween comes from us, because it's the night before All Saint's Day.

4) The only inconvenience is that you can't eat meat on Fridays during Lent. But all the restaurants have their fish specials during Lent to accommodate us.

5) If you raise your kids Catholic, they may stray from it, but it's unlikely they will join some crazy cult to fill that empty hole in their hearts. Catholicism fills that hole very nicely. And some day, your kids will probably go back to being Catholic, because they will want to raise their kids Catholic.

6) Catholics have the best schools. and many top universities are Catholic. Catholics don't pay as much to get in.

7) Going to Confession is the bomb. It really makes you feel good to get it all off your chest, and see that bored look on the priest's face when you realize he's not at all impressed by your sins.

8) Eucharist is also the bomb. If you really believed in it, really believed, you would want it every day.

9) We're not really all that strict on many things the Protestants are strict about. We're allowed to drink alcohol, smoke, dance, go to parties, play Dungeons & Dragons, listen to rock music, dress up for Halloween, etc.

10) Catholics don't have any strange rules that you're not allowed to get health care, go to the doctor, or get blood transfusions. In fact, there are thousands or maybe tens of thousands Catholic hospitals all over the world.

11) If you want to get involved, that's an option. But if you want to just show up on Sunday, throw a few bucks in the basket, and leave, you can do that too. There's no peer pressure to do more than you want to do.

12) If you're gay, no one really cares. Just don't show up with your same-sex marriage certificate and wave it in the priest's face, because then you're in the same league as the Catholic who got divorced and remarried.

13) If you've had an abortion, go to confession and begin your healing process. The Church has a wonderful program called Rachel's Vineyard.

14) All that stuff about the priests and altar boys is horrible, but I think it's been dealt with. I am not seeing more stories pop up, while before, it was popping up all the time. Safeguards are now in place.

That's all for now. We will probably see guno's contribution here, but he is a complete moron and should be ignored. If I was a Jew, I would be ashamed to have guno as a fellow Jew.

Thanks a lot, your comment that "Catholicism is the most normal religion" caused me to laugh so hard that I fell out of my seat onto my chessboard and now I have to go to the Dr's to have the Blackrook removed. Wait, the Chapel is closer.
;-)