Why Catholicism?

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Quite frankly, it is the most well-reasoned, intelligent and logical foundation for the Christian religion. If you have a doubt or question not only can you ask your highly-educated* priest but there is also an enormous treasury of theological literature to draw upon.

*Had I gone into the seminary it'd still take me six years to be ordained even with a graduate degree.
 
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Because trad caths are super based.
They were the ones protecting Jews and letting them live in Europe in the Middle Ages after all.
 
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Beak Thing said:
Quite frankly, it is the most well-reasoned, intelligent and logical foundation for the Christian religion. If you have a doubt or question not only can you ask your highly-educated* priest but there is also an enormous treasury of theological literature to draw upon.

*Had I gone into the seminary it'd still take me six years to be ordained even with a graduate degree.
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I'm not so sure. Do you have verses to prove this?
 
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Idk I was raised protestant and Catholics always seemed like repressed dark-spirited nutcases. They have all these bizarre dogmatic traditions they publicly adhere to, and it's like paradoxically in their private lives they're all the more degenerate to make up for it.

Also something my parents always told me they disliked about Catholicism is that they claim birth control is against their beliefs, so in the rich white countries they pay lip service to the idea even though in private all these families are using birth control. Meanwhile in 3rd world countries they take the idea as gospel and breed like rabbits, then their kids starve.

Also priests traditionally aren't supposed to get married, so as is customary for Catholics publicly the priests will pretend to be pious, except that's not how people work so behind the scenes they're screwing around with the congregation, the nuns, and the altar boys.

That's Catholics in a nutshell. I agree with Martin Luther, screw Catholics.
 
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Uberpenguin said:
Idk I was raised protestant and Catholics always seemed like repressed dark-spirited nutcases. They have all these bizarre dogmatic traditions they publicly adhere to, and it's like paradoxically in their private lives they're all the more degenerate to make up for it.

Also something my parents always told me they disliked about Catholicism is that they claim birth control is against their beliefs, so in the rich white countries they pay lip service to the idea even though in private all these families are using birth control. Meanwhile in 3rd world countries they take the idea as gospel and breed like rabbits, then their kids starve.

Also priests traditionally aren't supposed to get married, so as is customary for Catholics publicly the priests will pretend to be pious, except that's not how people work so behind the scenes they're screwing around with the congregation, the nuns, and the altar boys.

That's Catholics in a nutshell. I agree with Martin Luther, screw Catholics.
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I can tell you have never met a Catholic that takes their faith seriously IRL.

They are, in my experience, the friendliest and most genuine people I've ever met. They'll admit their faults, but it's rare for me to find one that is unpleasant or an ass.

And Luther's heresies were caused by him being an OCD nutcase.
 
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Crysocyan said:
I'm not so sure. Do you have verses to prove this?
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What do you mean, proof of the sacramental priesthood?

Sola scriptura is nonsense...it took a few hundred years for the Biblical canon to be finalized and the thought of Martin Luther, a man tormented by brutal OCD scrupulosity being an arbiter of the work done by St. Jerome in his Vulgate translation is laughable.
 
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Protestants do hokey shit like play acoustic guitar in church and Episcopalians especially seem to always be doing something embarrasing and retarded.

Catholics have the Jesuits though so we aren't perfect either.
 
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Beak Thing said:
What do you mean, proof of the sacramental priesthood?

Sola scriptura is nonsense...it took a few hundred years for the Biblical canon to be finalized and the thought of Martin Luther, a man tormented by brutal OCD scrupulosity being an arbiter of the work done by St. Jerome in his Vulgate translation is laughable.
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Luther had Autism, I can relate to that.
 
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I ain't Catholic, but I like them.
They are much more into in depth conversations about biblical and theological concepts than most non-denominational Christians I know, at least around here.
Pitbull Victim said:
Protestants do hokey shit like play acoustic guitar in church and Episcopalians especially seem to always be doing something embarrasing and retarded.

Catholics have the Jesuits though so we aren't perfect either.
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My church plays guitar to open and close, and yes, it is hokey. Not sorry though.
 
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Crysocyan said:
Luther had Autism, I can relate to that.
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If that corrupt Medici asshole Leo X had listened to Luther's legitimate grievances proactively rather than just excommunicate him, this entire fiasco would have been avoided.

The Protestant Reformation could have been the Catholic Reformation.
 
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Beak Thing said:
If that corrupt Medici asshole Leo X had listened to Luther's legitimate grievances proactively rather than just excommunicate him, this entire fiasco would have been avoided.

The Protestant Reformation could have been the Catholic Reformation.
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Thank God Leo didn't listen then.

As I understand it Luther declared war on most of the Sacraments, butchered sacred scripture, mistranslating passages as suited etc.
Reformation is one word, deformation and perversion might describe it better.
There were abuses, but it wasn't the first time human weakness had cried out for growth and renewal. Judas was one of the twelve Apostles chosen by Jesus.
 
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There's a lot of things Catholics do that I think are really good ideas, the history and art is great to study, probably more philosophy about scripture has been written by Catholics than anyone else I can think of, and more traditional things tend to speak to people more.
I'm kind of in the middle, Anglican churches are interesting to say the least, but I think things like the rosary and old traditional prayers are really good for people. The Anglicans and some other Protestants use a slightly different rosary with a different number of beads and prayers, it's more modern but the idea is very old and tactile meditation has many benefits to it. And a lot of saints were hardcore motherfuckers, so lots of great things to learn there as well.
And like I said before, a Catholic preacher worth his salt loves to answer questions, the more in depth he can get the better. You don't study Christianity your whole life and not learn a thing or two, after all. And all the preachers I know who went to seminary are very patient and glad to walk you through any questions you got no matter how basic it seems.
My main issue is that I don't trust institutions in general, as like with government there is unfortunately always corruption and shady shit that takes focus away from the original intent.
 
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