The Roman catholics dont have the original stones that God Wrote for the people.
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they are in the ark of the covenant, which the location of is unknown
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It sounds like your head is in the right place, but your heart is not.  Despite the uneducated repetition of some anti-catholics on this forum, the Catholic Church was the church founded by Jesus Christ.  As much as they try to point out the sins of churchmen or misinterpret scriptures to their own destruction, the facts - as you stated - still remain.  The true church CANNOT apposticise - Jesus promised that it wouldn't.  And the sins of some clergy doesn't make doctrine untrue.\n\nAll this being said, you can't come at people with attacks.  It turns them away so that they will never listen to your arguement.  If you charitably answer their objections, maybe they will see the truth.\n\nFor those of you who think that the Catholic Church is not the original church - please visit my website.\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/orthodox_doctrine/
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Because this practice(along with others) by Catholics is not scripturally based. \n\ntosmith
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They have huge issues with their religion. That is why for centuries they have killed or forcibly converted those who disagreed. But of course those weren't true Christians, although the resemblance was uncanny...
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The creators of God didnt program her to do so...
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you don't worship as a catholic...you "pray to" and "honor Mary, the mother of God"..............
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Lack of knowledge has to take it, I think. Most of what anti-Catholics know about our faith comes from anti-Catholic apologetics and tracts of the Jack Chick kind, and not any first-hand knowledge. The most ardent detractors are often people who have never seen the catechism, don't know what the CC teaches, and people who've never set foot in a Catholic parish. That's where all the weird stuff about "worshipping statues" and what not comes from.\n\nOf course, some people have a bad opinion of the Catholic church because they are Catholics who were badly served by the church itself. There have been too many bishops too quick to protect their priests and their diocese, and did not care enough about their flock to protect them. I'm thinking of the abuse crisis.\n\nWhere that matter is concerned, I think it will be to us, the laity, to take matters into our hands and make the church listen to us.
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They cant play God there not religious lol.
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Catholics don't read the true bible either.\n\nIt was written by men, has been translated to English, and has had thousands of years to be editted.\n\nI don't *really* believe in the details of the Bible. It may be an excellent tool when read broadly, because you can understand the motives and meanings. What is wrong is getting caught up in single phrases, which tend to become overinflated.
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Most modern Bibles that are not Roman Catholic do not include the apocrypha (those questionable books in the middle between the testaments), unless they just include them for historical value. Protestants during the Reformation rejected certain teachings that were found in these contradictory books, and because they held Scripture so high they continued not including them. They are Jewish books, and the Jews rejected them as Scripture. The only reason the Roman Catholics include them is because they opposed the Protestants, so they just made a declaration that these too were Scripture. Imagine just calling something the words of God, when they hadn't been considered such for 1,500 years?! That is why Protestants do not include the extra books. They have not taken away, it is the Roman Catholic Church which has added. The verse you are talking about really refers to Revelation, but there are other verses like Proverbs 30:5-6 "Every word of God is flawless...Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar" (NIV). If you look at the Apocrypha without bias, you will see that it is additive and not on par with Holy Scripture.
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People started to take on a role of questioning long held beliefs. ie. the church doesn't know all and that there are other ways to look at the world rather than going through a catholic priest.
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Remember that the Catholic church canonized the bible which had those books in it before the protestant reformation. Catholics didn't add to it, Luther(and others) took them out! Those of you who swear by the King James bible are missing out on several books that are in the Old Testament and of value. We (Catholics) are not "on to something". We just have the complete Bible (and have all along). \nTo my Protestant brothers, check the history of the bible, and see what I'm saying!\nGod bless you for asking this question.
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Because the Catholic church (especially in LA) is more concerned with politics and money than it is concerned with morals. Illegal immigrants make up a HUGE percentage of their church and they will support those that bring in the money and the masses.  It's pathetic and they are a disgrace to those Catholics who earnestly seek to follow God.
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No one can know the mind of God, because I don’t think anything written in ANY religious book is from a divine source, it’s from people who were trying to control the status quo in whatever time it was written.  It had more to do with politics than it did worship.
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Religion and opinion are things Christians do not get.
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The Catholics do have "extra" books in their bible.  We protestants call these books the apocrypha (which literally means "extra books")\n\nThey were not included in our Canon because we do not believe them to be the inspired Word of God.
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Splinterjah (sp?) has no idea what he is talking about. Not to be mean of course, but he doesn't. Catholicism does differ from the mainstream Christian denominations, but it doesn't teach anything false. Catholics do NOT at ALL worship Mary, or any of the other saints. That is just a popular belief that is spread by ingnorant people who really have no idea what Catholicism is. That kinda thing has been going on since the 1500's. Catholics ask Mary and the saints to pray FOR US, just like it says to in the bible. We belive that the during the Eucharistic celebration (communion) the bread and wine really do turn into Jesus, which it also says in the bible. \n\nI don't think anyone in the world has ever prayed to the pope. We might have prayed FOR the pope, but never to him. Thats just ridiculous. The bible (in Matthew) talks about how Jesus gave Peter (the first pope) the "keys to the kingdom" and how what ever Peters says on earth (in reference to religious/moral doctrines) will make a binding compact with heaven. In other words, that means he is infallible, because if it binds with the law of heaven (God), then it has to be infallible, because if God wasn't infallible, the world would cease to be. \n\nAfter Jesus rose back from the dead, The Catholic Church started. JESUS himself started the Catholic Church. Someone said something about the bible saying something about "Christians in Antioch". Well DUH. Who do you think they were? Batists? Methodists? I doubt it, since they (or any other Protestant denomination) didn't come into existance until 1547 (I think thats the right year). Therefore, they must have been Catholics. \n\nIf the Pope is infallible, then that means everything he says and preaches is true (religious-wise) because he is filled with the Holy Spirit, and was given authority by Jesus himself. That means that Catholic doctrine is always in accordance with God in Heaven. \n\nThe bible also says to confess your sins to one another (preists). It never ever says "hey! Don't confess your sins to anybody, and make sure you never go into a thing called a confessional. And also make sure you never follow any kind of tradition, or listen to anything that a holy man says even if he is given authority by Jesus. And definately make sure you don't ask ANYBODY to pray for you, otherwise its a sin, and yes, that does include Mary and the saints."\n\nIt never says anything of the sort. And if anybody tries to prove that different by quoting from the bibe, then they are wrong. You can't just take random verses from the bible with out first looking at the context of which it is taken from. Thats a mistake that everybody makes when trying to refute the Catholic doctrine. \n\nAnd the main that I would say the Protestant churches do that is false is try to prove Catholicism wrong. \n\nBut anyways, I diverge. There is nothing wrong with going to a Catholic Highschool. You already know what you belive in, so it doesn't matter. Of course, you should be open minded. And remember, everyone is going to answer differently in Yahoo!Answers. So my advice to you is to not take ANYBODY'S word for ANYTHING on here. Reasearch all of it for yourself, and make sure that you don't get all of your information from a single biased perspective, which is what I, and everyone else is giving you. \n\nHighschool is highschool. Its all about getting your education, and you shouldn't be worried about anything else. \n\nAnd for the record, there is NO difference between Catholicism and Christianity. There are only differences between the different denominations of Christianity.