[Sca-cooks] Catholic/Christian, was: The Fallwell/Robertson statements

[Michael Newton]

It is a Southern Baptist "thing" Catholics, Because of the Pope and saint
veneration, and Mormons because of their Book of Mormon are considered, to
be Cults by a large group of Southern Baptist Fundementalist.

Thorbjorn
Graduate of a SBC College.
I don't hold to this belief.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elaine Koogler" <ekoogler at chesapeake.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Catholic/Christian, was: The Fallwell/Robertson
statements


> I have to say that I've been part of three different Protestant groups
during my
> life (Presbyterian, Methodist and Episcopalian) and I don't ever recall
hearing
> the Catholics weren't Christians.  I do definitely remember the reactions
to JFK's
> running for the Presidency...in fact, a major difference of opinion on
this caused
> one of the worst arguments I ever had with my parents (I supported JFK).
>
> Kiri
>
> Tara wrote:
>
> > > Now if someone could only explain to me why the Catholics are not
considered
> > > Christains................................................
> >
> > Catholics consider themselves to be Christians.  Some Protestant sects
> > consider them to be Christian, too.  But, some Protestant sects consider
> > Catholic worship of Saints and the elevation of the Pope to a status
> > above normal humans to be worshiping false idols.  Catholics consider an
> > awful lot of texts (i.e. the writings of Thomas Aquinas,) to be holy
> > writs, which is antithetical to Protestants who consider only the New
> > Testament to be the word of God.  Catholic rites such as the Host are
> > considered magical or otherwise un-holy in some views.  And, the fact
> > that many Catholic churches still forbid parishoners to read the Bible
> > for themselves is a big sticking point in many Protestant views.  Most
> > Protestants consider one's relationship with God to be of utmost
> > importance, not to be interfered with by any other person or opinion.
> > You are expected to read and understand the Bible and live by it.
> > Catholics are expected *not to* read the Bible, but to let their church
> > leaders explain it all to them.  So, those preachers theoretically could
> > (and historically, sometimes did) teach anything that fits their agenda.
> >
> > Basically, it's the same sort of rift that long ago led certain Hebrews
> > to no longer be Jews.  The first Christians were born and raised Jewish,
> > and continued to follow Jewish ways of life and teach them to their
> > children.  Jews were busy waiting for the coming of God, and these
> > particular Jews considered Jesus to be that God.  As far as they were
> > concerned, the Jews who didn't accept this were too un-holy, too worldly
> > minded to notice an obvious fact.  Quickly the culture became so
> > seperated from it's source that it was no longer distinguisable as
> > Jewish, and they effectively became two different religions.
> > Protestants seperated from the Catholics, and quickly became so
> > different that they were obviously very different.  The difference is,
> > the Protestants and Catholics are still fighting over who holds title to
> > the word "Christian."
> >
> > -Magdalena
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