Why are Catholics always cool?
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Always?   Nobody is always cool.
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because they have a marked lack of creativity. their priests and pastors do all of their religious thinking for them.
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I personally never liked that phrase.  \n\nI think that there are people who consider themselves "Good Catholics" who haven't the slightest idea of what Catholicism or life for that matter is all about.  I believe in questioning.  I believe in doing for others.  \n\nJust because you go to church doesn't make you a good anything.  That's like saying because I go to the garage I'm a good car. That's dumb.  Right?  \n\nI don't think you are a bad Catholic.  I think you have to find what's right for you. I think that the only way to find your faith is to understand it.  To live a while and try to understand what it is all about. \n\nThere are "church going Christians" who smoke weed, sleep around, who are hate-filled individuals pretending to do good while they neglect to do good for others.  I sincerely believe we were all put here to love one another and help each other.  \n\nYeah, I sound like a peace loving, tree-hugging hippie, but you know, Jesus always preached LOVE as being the greatest commandment. I have a feeling he wouldn't have a problem with my point of view.  \n\n "Good Catholic"...a good Catholic, if you have to define it is one who LIVES faith through action--in respecting and giving dignity to others and loving unconditionally even if someone royally deserves a kick in the nuts and or boobs.  You do your best.  No judging.  No hating.  Just being.  \n\nNo, dude.  You aren't a BAD Catholic. You're just trying to figure it all out like the rest of us. \n\nPeace,\n\nMelissa.
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Because youre really cool!!
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Catholics are christians.
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Aw, they do it because they think it winds us up. I know it doesn't really, but they get taught that in Bible class as a way of making it look like Christianity keeps you cool. I say, listen to Pat Robertson, Ian Paisley or Rush Limbaugh for five minutes and tell yourself that Christians aren't popping a vein out of their necks with suppressed rage.
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Most Roman Catholics tend to be pretty conservative - I definitely am!!  You might want to read the Catechism of the Catholic Church for more information.
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Some are good; some are bad; most are in-between.  Same as all the non-Catholics.  What's your point?
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I think it is because not everyone is as smart as you and some that have read the book think that the book is 100% factual.  I am not catholic but I think that they are not being scared by what is said about them, as much as they are afraid of people believing every word of the book.
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Born and raised Catholic. That was hilarious!
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Because Catholics are messed up in the head.  I don't even consider Catholicism the same as Christianity any more.
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Looking back at your earlier questions, it looks like you are asking why Catholics have so many gods?\n\nCatholics worship only one God. \n\nIt sounds like you are confused about our respect and close relationship to saints. \n\nCatholics and many other Christians believe in the Communion of Saints where all saints are intimately related in the Body of Christ, a family. When you die and go to heaven, you do not leave this family.\n\nEveryone in heaven or on their way to heaven are saints. You, me, my deceased grandmother, Mary the mother of Jesus, and Mother Teresa of Calcutta.\n\nAs part of this family, you may ask your family and friends here on earth to pray for you. Or you may also ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Andrew, or your deceased grandmother in heaven to pray for you.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Because they became powerful by instilling fear, and power corrupts, and no one is stopping them.  You can't say why "did", you should say why "does" the church change so much, then suppress so much.  The Pope is as close to God as the rest of us.
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One Hundred Fifty Reasons I'm Catholic\nAnd You Should Be Too!\n\nthe top ten are listed, the rest are here:\nhttp://www.ourcatholicfaith.org/reasons.html\n\n1. Best One-Sentence Summary: I am convinced that the Catholic Church conforms much more closely to all of the biblical data, offers the only coherent view of the history of Christianity (i.e., Christian, apostolic Tradition), and possesses the most profound and sublime Christian morality, spirituality, social ethic, and philosophy. \n\n2. Alternate: I am a Catholic because I sincerely believe, by virtue of much cumulative evidence, that Catholicism is true, and that the Catholic Church is the visible Church divinely-established by our Lord Jesus, against which the gates of hell cannot and will not prevail (Mt 16:18), thereby possessing an authority to which I feel bound in Christian duty to submit. \n\n3. 2nd Alternate: I left Protestantism because it was seriously deficient in its interpretation of the Bible (e.g., "faith alone" and many other "Catholic" doctrines - see evidences below), inconsistently selective in its espousal of various Catholic Traditions (e.g., the Canon of the Bible), inadequate in its ecclesiology, lacking a sensible view of Christian history (e.g., "Scripture alone"), compromised morally (e.g., contraception, divorce), and unbiblically schismatic, anarchical, and relativistic. I don't therefore believe that Protestantism is all bad (not by a long shot), but these are some of the major deficiencies I eventually saw as fatal to the "theory" of Protestantism, over against Catholicism. All Catholics must regard baptized, Nicene, Chalcedonian Protestants as Christians. \n\n4. Catholicism isn't formally divided and sectarian (Jn 17:20-23; Rom 16:17; 1 Cor 1:10-13). \n\n5. Catholic unity makes Christianity and Jesus more believable to the world (Jn 17:23). \n\n6. Catholicism, because of its unified, complete, fully supernatural Christian vision, mitigates against secularization and humanism. \n\n7. Catholicism avoids an unbiblical individualism which undermines Christian community (e.g., 1 Cor 12:25-26). \n\n8. Catholicism avoids theological relativism, by means of dogmatic certainty and the centrality of the papacy. \n\n9. Catholicism avoids ecclesiological anarchism - one cannot merely jump to another denomination when some disciplinary measure or censure is called for. \n\n10. Catholicism formally prevents the theological relativism which leads to the uncertainties within the Protestant system among laypeople.
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I agree totally with you. The Catholic Church does teach the Bible and we hear the Bible at every Mass. We have two readings and usually a psalm reading at every Mass. I really think it is a matter of jealousy with the other denominations. Just like Joseph's brothers were jealous of him they are jealous of us because we have the Mother that our Father loves the best The Virgin Mary. We love and honor her and they don't so I would say the proof is in the pudding.
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That was ME. I thought that you would at least be HAPPY! Jeez, I always get happy when I get chosen for a best answer. Catholics are different from Christians because of how we pray. You guys pray directly to god. We pray to statues and things like my necklace with mother mary and Jesus. \n\nOh, yeah, sorry if I am being mean here, but if you think that I am odd or stupid or any other hurtful words, then that is just your opinion. Dont worry, I am used to it. I wasnt joking when I said "sorry if I was being here". May the lord himself smite me if I do.
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It depends. Are they Catholic?