I've hung around a lot of Christians from all kinds of denominations.  I've gone on retreats with Lutherins, conferences with Methodists, overseas missions with Nazarene's, and I even married a Baptist.  \n\nBy far and away the most vulgar of them all have been the Catholics.    \n\nPaul says in Ephesians 5:29 "No foul language should come out of your mouths..."  Yet it seems Catholics have a dispensation to ignore this.  \n\nAnd I'm not talking about the C&E's either.  We're talking about Eucharistic ministers, youth leaders, bible study teachers; I even had priests in college swearing in the classroom!  What gives?
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That is a very interesting question. I am a practicing Catholic, married since july, female, 35. And yes, I have a horrible potty mouth.\n\nLike, really bad. I use the F word a lot. It's so versatile.\n\nHonestly I don't know why. I am just being honest. My guess would be this; As a Catholic, we have the guilt thing going on. So many sins to avoid. So much pressure. I mean, we've got mortal sins, venial sins, a sin for every season and occasion. PLUS we've got our poor dead relatives and friends suffering in Purgatory and we are supposed to pray for them to get out. We have lots of rules and stuff and after all that we need some kind of outlet!\n\nEnter potty-mouth and drinky-poo.\n\nI'd like to speak for all Catholics by saying most of us do our best. We gotta avoid those BIG sins that send us to hell, so we indulge in some of the lesser sins, such as foul language, and drunkeness. It doesn't make us bad people. I suppose we should follow the rules more, but after all, we are only human. \n\nHope my perspective helps. God F*#!ing RULES!
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I reckon that it's only the people you KNOW are christian that are like this. The LOUD christians who shout about their faith like it's some sort of medal to be proud of.\n\nThe quiet, humble Christians (and I'm now using the capital "C") have a personal relationship with God and don't need to shout out about it. They do exist, and you probably meet them every day, you just don't recognise them as Christian. But you might know them by their actions, rather than their words.
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Catholics are Christians if they have accepted Jesus as there saviour, same as any other denomination. (I'm not Catholic.) I don't know where you live but in UK the mainstream church had lost it's way and started compromising on things such as sex before marriage and the like, but now things are going back to God's word. The church I'm in is very Bibe based, happily.
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There is no Hell, so....\n\nNo.\n\nAnd no, not all Christians are so insanely rude.  They aren't all so pompous and presumptuous and RUDE.  I can't stress enough how completely rude she is.
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thats messed up, i cant stand christians for that exact reason, always determined to preach to those who dont want it or need it. christians think everyone ''needs'' to listen to it, and that god tells them to shove it down unwanted throats, ex stripper preachers is wrong and wierd, what happens to the guys when their show has to go to the nuns?
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Im in the same situation. I've got a decent knowledge of the bible and a totally impartial view of religions as a whole (I read it to see what all the hubub was about). My country is 99% Roamn Catholic, and I'd guess that at least 80% of these people couldn't quote scripture to save their lives.\nIt doesn't matter though. Real religious experience comes from participating in the Church and living your life through God. Christians will always pick and chose which parts of the Bible to follow, and who are we (filthy athiests) to argue with them. It is their book after all, they can do with it what they please.
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Absolutely nothing wrong with that!! :-D  It's just ignorance. \n\nHere's a site dedicated to Asian Christianity by Catholics!   www.asianews.it\n\n(PS The other poster is right, cussing is not very christian)
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Well, I'm not one of those Christians, so I can't really speak for them. If you have sensed that they fear you, I don't get it. I do know some Christians that feel they should disassociate themselves with non-Christians just because they don't have anything in common if they don't even believe in the same God. Also, many families want their kids to be close to other Christians because being around people who believe differently can open up issues that they feel would not come up if they only hang out with Christians. However, only hanging out with kids who go to church won't necessarily keep your kids from sin. Where do you think I learned all of my dirty jokes? (Christian School!) I think, though, that we need to accept those who feel they should be separate....as long as they are the ones to leave the public area instead of them trying to keep others who are different out. Did that make any sense?
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Catholics have more fun.  Especially alcoholic ones.  That's the whole point of Catholisism.  Pain old deubochery is good for peoples souls and Okay at St. Peters.  God don't want no prude...period.
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Don't worry about it.  Lots of folks are rude these days.  Email me about a pastor I know; wow have I got stories to tell.
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Your mother is mistaken on some of those things.  You can help her to see that.  \n\nWhat she is correct on is that swearing is not what true Christians would want to do.  If you meant swearing as in saying bad words, Ephesians 5:3-5 says that obscene things should not even be mentioned among you.  Certain types of music are filled with obscene lyrics.  Not always is a type of music all bad, though, and I don't think all rock songs are bad.\n\nHorror movies are objectionable to a Christian conscience because it is a very serious thing to being involved in any form of spiritism.  \n2 Chronicles 33:6 speaks of wicked King Manas'seh.  It says about him: "And he himself made his own sons pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hin'nom, and practiced magic and used divination and practiced sorcery and made spiritistic mediums and professional foretellers of events.  He did on a grand scale what was bad in the eyes of Jehovah to offend him."  So this scripture shows that it offends our Creator and it is a great badness to have anything to do with spiritism or demonism.\n \nEven when horror movies do not contain spiritism, they usually contain gross violence.  Watching horror movies, can erode our capacity to sympathize and empathize with the suffering of others.  The apostle Paul condemned those who "because of the insensibility [literally translated "dulling"] of their hearts" came to be "past all moral sense."   He encouraged Christians instead to "become kind to one another, tenderly compassionate." (Ephesians 4:18,19,32)\n\nAbout chocolate and caffeine: Nowhere in the Bible does it say that there is anything wrong with chocolate or caffeine.\n\nFinally, alcohol is not prohibitted in the Bible, it is something that many of God's servants enjoyed in the past.   In fact the first miracle that Jesus Christ performed, as recorded in the Bible, \nwas at the marriage feast in Ca'na where he turned water into fine wine.  He added to the enjoyment of the wedding celebration by doing this.  (John 2:1-11).  Jesus also used wine as a fitting symbol of his blood when inaugurating the Lord's Evening Meal. (Matthew 26:27-29)\n\nIt was even recommended for medicinal purposes at 1 Timothy 5:23; Luke 10:34\n\nPsalm 104:15 says: "And wine makes the heart of mortal man rejoice....."\n\nHowever, drinking a lot of wine, or getting drunk is condemned in the Bible.  Jewish priests were free to drink in moderation when off duty.  However, they were forbidden to drink any alcoholic beverages while engaging in their priestly duties. (Leviticus 10:8-11)  \n\nFirst-century Christians were warned that drunkards "will not inherit God's Kingdom." (1 Corinthians 6:9,10)\n\nUnrepentant drunkards were also expelled from the Christian congregation. (1 Corinthians 5:11-13)\n\nAt Proverbs 20:1, the  Bible also says that "wine is a ridiculer"  meaning that excess alcohol weakens your inhibitions and impairs your judgment so that you do foolish things.  (and sometimes dangerous things.)\n\nI'm sure your mother means well, and is trying to protect you but if she does tell you something is wrong and you are not sure, ask her to show you in the Bible.  Maybe it will help her think about searching for the truth about things in the Bible.
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i ve been asking this for so long. thank god i am not alone. i am so sick of this anti-catholic bs that has no validity whatsoever.\n\nyou would expect this kind of garbage from the secular world, but i have no idea what these protestants are thinking sometimes.\n\nhere's an idea protestants...why don't you actually learn about the catholic church first. as opposed to just blurting out a bunch of nonsense like we worship mary, and the pope ,etc.  give me a break already. still goin with those arguments?? don't even waste my time then.
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My family used to be (when my parents were still alive and us kids were closer to home) prone to getting into heated "discussions" about most any topic. Whatever the popular opinion, my dad would always play the devils advocate, and off we'd go, debating darned near anything. One Sunday, we got into it about cursing. Part of us took the stance that only the designated curse words were truly curse words, and who decided what they were anyway? And part of us took the side that ANY word would be a curse word if used with the right emotion. Ex: if you say darn and you really meant damn, or really WANTED to say damn, then you may as well have gone ahead and said damn! The others were no way! Only the word damn is a curse word, and darn and heck and shoot are all perfectly good alternatives...well, so it went in my house!\nPoint being, I personally think that it's the emotion behind the word used, and say, in the case of Tourette's, there is no emotion intended, just an uncontrollable outburst of words that just happen to be considered foul by society. Now, having said all that, the Bible does have something to say about not allowing a rotten saying to come out of our mouths, along with swearing (as in "I swear to God I didn't take your purse!" The Bible says to let our yes mean yes and our no mean no) You'll find those verses at Eph 4:29 and Matt 5:37.
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Profanity origniated out of religious obserance of words that were either considered blasphemy or abusive to either God or his followers. Most words are considered profane because of their abusive, or offensive nature.  Talking about hell, or damnation was considered abusive because it brought to light unplesant aspects of the afterlife.   This also applies to blasphemy or taking the Lord's name in vain, it is considered offensive by religous followers because it is a direct insulting use of their creator's name. Also sexual terms and phrases are often considered vular or taken out of context to produce an offense. Ah, who cares...here goes...I'll try to be polite...\nIt is usually their connotation that makes them profane:  \n"Taking a sh*t" is considered a vular expression because of it's content.  \n"Fu*k you" is also considered vulgar because the word "F*ck" implies sex because of it's origins and it's a no no to talk about sex in our Puritian society...Let alone use sex as an offensive remark.\nA$$hole is considered a rude word because, honestly who wants to be associated with being an anus?\nC*nt is a very taboo word because of it's vulgar reference to female genitalia, and feminist movement sees vulgar references as a means to demean and demoralize. Which is probably a very accurate ideal.\nD*ckhead also is a demeaning word.\nWell okay that's all I can think of..well actually I can think of a lot more, but I'll probably already be reported for this anyways...\nHave A Nice Day...
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As a Cradle Catholic and current CCD teacher, I can assure you the Catholic Church is a true Christian church.  I believe they are attacked so much because they are the strongest, and largest Christian denomination.  Those in power are always reviled.  It's sad, too, because there is so much beautiful, rich tradition in the church that others will turn from simply from a lack of understanding.\n\nSomeone once said the Catholics are the "Marines" of religion.  I think people expect a higher standard from them.   I think because of the history, the scandals seem even more atrocious.  I'm not about to condone the way the church handled the most recent sex abuse scandals.  Our own priest blasted the church for not calling these priests down as the criminals they are;  but I do know from my theological studies that no matter the scandals in the heirarchy of the church, it has always been THE FAITH OF THE PEOPLE that is the true strength of the church, and where Jesus lives best.\n\nAs to theological divides, I believe that most of those stem from misunderstanding.  An example is that many people believe Catholics worship Mary.  We don't.  We worship God.  But Mary, as the mother of Jesus and first Christian, is important.  Jesus honored her;  so must we.  \n\nThis was a good question.  You phrased it with an open mind.  Good for you!
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You've got a peculiar idea about Catholics - for starters, Catholics rarely do "sermons." Priests preach homilies - in other words, they talk about the scriptures that were read.\n\nWhat we do have the same - all over the world - is the same liturgy. That is the same bible readings are read, and the same prayers are recited. We have a three year cycle - Year A, Year B, Year C. In each year there are a couple of dozen weeks of what is called "ordinary time", and there are other weeks that are thematic - Easter, Christmas, Lent, Advent. In a sense the Vatican isn't "in control"  by this any more than anyone is - priests  of the Pope's diocese and the Pope himself have to follow the church's standard liturgical year, just like everyone else.\n\nLiturgy is about exalting the word of God, and not exalting the word of the pastor. Evangelical pastors ramble from biblical passage to passage, talking about what they want to talk about. Creflo Dollar can quote scripture - but he does so in a way that exalts himself, not Jesus.\n\nLiturgy ensures priests and bishops preach about Easter at Easter, Christmas at Christmas, etc. Lutherans and Episcopalians use pretty much the same lectionary (the same schedule of bible readings, if you will) as the Catholics. That way the major churches of the western world stay in synch.
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Not in Bible. I thought the Catholics stopped that practice on the 60's? Maybe some still do? They are not consistent from place to place-but who else is.