Why Do Protestants...

Uhm... Why Catholics have to be judgmental against Protestants? Catholics aren't much better. I do believe that Christians have done some of the most evil things anyone has ever done.

Not all Protestant churches recite the Apostles Creed. The Baptists, as former President Jimmy Carter is fond of reminding us, do not swear oaths, and that includes the Creed. Not all of the recitations include "the Holy Catholic Church," so in that, you're wrong. As for all Protestants being heretics...Please. Get over yourself.

I don't know whether you are Catholic or not. From your little rant I suppose you probably are. Do you honestly think that getting your knickers in a knot about this makes you any better than what you say we do?? We don't JUDGE you. We just don't do the same things as Catholics in that we don't have all the ritualistic stuff. If anybody is picking on anybody it sounds like you're you pickin on Protestants mate.
I though we all believed in the same God, regardless of whether we are Catholic or Protestant. Your way of thinking is what drove Catholics and Protestants apart in the first place. The 16th Century comes to mind when Catholics slaughtered thousands of 'heretics' as they called them. Very Christianly that!
Oh and another thing, We actually say in our church 'I believe in a Holy, Common, Christian church' so not everyone says Catholic. Build a bridge and get over it!

Heretic? Yeah...can you hear me all the way back there in the 16th century? As for the "true church"...what a load of bull. A church isn't a building or an instituation...it's wherever your faith is. Oh, and before you suggest that I'm just an angry Protestant, I'm Catholic...born and raised.

Catholic in the creed is not capitalized.. one holy catholic church. non caps makes the distinction of the meaning being universal and not Catholic as in of the Roman Catholic Church.

Not all not Catholic religion recite the creed in their services and no they dont all know it can be used to mean universal. and are your refering to the Protestant Church or the protestant (non-Catholic) churches?

If as Christians we could start to see our commonalities and forgive our differences we'd be so much better off.

Well, I, on the other hand, am an Orthodox, and all I can say is...
Chill out people.

God is probably either laughing or being very angry at us for having all these petty arguments about separations that occured so long ago.

The whole point of what Jesus said was to love the person next to you. As long as someone does this, Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox or a little green man from Mars, I personally consider him/her a true Christian.

Hungry rodents are a force to be reckoned with!!!

Lovehound, I don't know WHERE you got the idea that Luther tought that "Rome' was the TRUE CHURCH. It was his belief that all the Bishops of Rome were true Christians up to and including Gregrory the Great. Gregory was very instrumental in promoting the theory of Purgatory. In his defense, Luther thought that the pope had been deceived by Demons! Gregory expressly denied that any bishop was the "universal bishop"; only Christ is Head of the Church.
He said that anyone to claim that they were- was (an) Antichrist. After Gregory's death with the next pope Boniface III, just such a claim is made... something NEVER made for some six-hundred years (despite various understandings of the "Thou art Peter" passage). With Boniface, Luther felt that the 'Roman' see had ceased to be Catholic. That's what some groups such as Anglicans believe. Perversely, it was ROME that fell into theological error, heresy, and even Satanism, not the other way around. HJ

They are not picking on the Catholic Church. They are picking on what is 'different' to the set of values and beliefs they themselves have accustomed themselves with.

You should never take these things personally. It is sub-concious programming that allows humans to identify one & other within their own social constraints and EVERY HUMAN ALIVE has the same 'nature' inherent within.
Every person in the world categorises and rates another person as a way to further define themselves. This is a tribal instinct...them / us.

Very important in building complex societies, the human psyche always defines itself by defining the 'enemy' first. Catholics, protestants, black, caucasian, Jew, Muslim etc etc.

The reason for them picking on the Catholic Church is that they have been raised to believe Protestants are correct in their beliefs and Catholics are incorrect in their beliefs. As we all know history has taught us that humans don't usually accept a differing/opposing view of the world to their own...they fight to impose their own values.

For example. 1500 years ago everybody KNEW the earth was the centre of the universe and that, in fact, the sun revolved around the earth. 500 years ago everybody KNEW the earth was flat and one could 'drop' off the end, 150 years ago everybody KNEW the Earth was as old as Adam & Eve.
NOW
There are educated, decent people in every one of those time periods (IN CONTEXT) but today we still have people that believe the Earth is ONLY as old as the total human age contained in the Bible (i.e. adding up everyone's age all the way back to Adam & Eve) = 12000 years.

These people ALWAYS hide behind their faith whenever I say; DINOSAURS?

So I, using the aforementioned psychology, classify them as idiots.

In 150 years who knows...maybe Darwin will be considered an 'upstart', maybe we'll all get on. As long as religion is still used as a 'weapon' of arguement...I seriously doubt we will.

'Only EFFORT, DISCIPLINE, LOYALTY, earn the right to wear the Dragon Doji.' - Oroku Saki