re: Quick questions for Catholics

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Call whatever you want. I disagree, but I still enjoy your posts.

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I wouldn't worry about it. You could declare that puppies and kittens are cute and BoarEd would call bullshite on it. It is his way of saying hello or asking how you are doing that day.

When I moved to S. Alabama as a teenager, a girl in my class was asking me where I was from and inevitably asked me what church I went to....told her I was Catholic and she stammered "Oh, well you know y'all are going to hell right?" I asked her why was that and she explained that we drank real wine at communion not grape juice. I said "Didn't Christ turn the water into wine at the wedding?" She told me that wasn't the same kind of wine we have today, the wine in Christ's time was made from fermented grapes. I was confused..lol

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When I moved to S. Alabama as a teenager, a girl in my class was asking me where I was from and inevitably asked me what church I went to....told her I was Catholic and she stammered "Oh, well you know y'all are going to hell right?" I asked her why was that and she explained that we drank real wine at communion not grape juice. I said "Didn't Christ turn the water into wine at the wedding?" She told me that wasn't the same kind of wine we have today, the wine in Christ's time was made from fermented grapes. I was confused..lol

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Best to just nod and slowly back away from the conversation at that point.

Because fear is the easiest way to keep a flock in its fold and away from learning about other faiths.

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I mean I get that back in the day(like hundreds of years ago) Protestants and Catholics were essentially at war with each other over Christianity, but whats the point of teach such animosity towards other faiths and Christian religions at that. While attending my many years of ccd, we would often go to other religions churches, synagogues, etc.. to learn about them, not belittle them.

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Christianity tends to be a bit more calm about religious differences because we had a very nasty religious war (Thirty Years War) back in the day that took some starch out of folks sails. Add to that the Churches in Europe tended to have the misfortune of backing the losers in various civil wars.

America is a bit more fervent about things, we were founded by religious zealots after all, but our society was set up to keep religion out of government and vice versa as much as possible. Its a huge advantage we have over Muslim societies where religion is explicitly assigned a dominant role in government.

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Is this something they teach in some protestant religions? I hear this quite often. like others have stated, not true..

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No, it's just how it looks to someone on the outside.

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I heard a radio program out of Memphis one time where the preacher was explaining to the radio flock that the wine that was associated with Jesus was grape juice and the wine that was associated with bad things in the Bible was real wine. The mental gymnastics and references to his Bible interpretations (the substance of which he didn't share with the audience) were interesting, to say the least.

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They aren't around as much anymore, but have you ever run across the religious tracts by Chick publishing out of Nashville? That guy had a serious problem with Catholics.

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Chick tracts are legendary

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They were the hilarious. What was interesting to me was they always seemed to be left in public bathrooms

They loved going after catholics and anyone that played D&D

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They sure loved them some juice tho

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Wait, do you not?