WHY CATHOLICISM CLAIMS TO BE UNIVERSAL - TO BE THE TRUTH THAT EVERY PERSON NEEDS

Christ founded one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church which is one in faith so we are told. We are told that the Church in communion with the pope is that Church. This says other Churches have broken with it and can go astray as they don't have the protection of the Holy Spirit. Catholicism says it is meant for every person and the Church is a gift for all but not all are willing or ready to come to it. Catholic means inclusive and for all in that sense. That presupposes the Church has the truth. Other Churches supposedly make errors. Errors include heresies such as the Bible being the head of the Church not the pope and losing the authority to perform valid sacraments such as turning bread and wine into Jesus.

One prime supposition is that God is intimate with us and tells us about himself through his Church.

What this Church says and does

To doubt what God has revealed is to call God a liar. It’s a sin when it happens wilfully. To doubt is to think you might be wrong. If you won’t let yourself doubt that shows that you have a neurosis and are mentally ill about religion and are afraid of the truth. If you really believed, you wouldn’t be afraid of the truth or afraid of doubt.  To doubt what God has revealed is not to call God a liar for God being God cannot lie but to wonder if he really revealed it. The Church doesn’t want you to know if it made up its doctrines while pretending they were from God. Banning doubt is necessary if you want power over others through religion.

The worst lie is how the Church says all the Bible is inspired and from God so "if anyone receive not as sacred and canonical the said books entire and with all their parts as they have been used to be read in the Catholic church, and as they are contained in the Old Latin Vulgate edition… let him be anathema" Council of Trent. Vatican 1, 1870 repeated this teaching, so the Church "accepts and venerates all the books of the Old and New Testaments, since one God is the author of both, with equal piety and reverence".

Why this is Bad

To suggest you know or believe God cannot lie and that you would be able to doubt his veracity is ridiculous.

What this Church says and does

The Church likes to have nobody saying anything critical about it

Why this is Bad

To let dishonesty like that thrive would be criminal. The notion some have that we should criticise everything we want to except religion is ludicrous for religion tries to make people afraid to think for themselves unlike everything else so it should be criticised more than anything

What this Church says and does

Though we can do good works without God inspiring them and helping us to do them, only good works done with the help of God (grace) are efficacious for salvation. God even helps us obtain the gift of faith which is why we describe it as a supernatural gift from God enabling us to believe all he has revealed to his Church

Why this is Bad

Anybody can have a feeling or thought or inspiration and imagine it is from God. Student priests are certain that God has given them the grace of a vocation to the priesthood and the next time you look they are convinced they were wrong! To say that God is inspiring your thoughts and feelings when you know day by day you could be inspiring them yourself is total dishonesty and arrogance. It is the stuff out of which madness is made. It is not God these people are reaching out to, it is what they want God to be. It’s idolatry.

What this Church says and does

Roman Catholicism claims to have the fulness of truth thanks to God not man.  That is what it means by saying it is the one true Church.

Why this is Bad

Two people believing the same thing does not make them one in faith.

John and Mary believe that Jesus rose again. John believes because he feels it. Mary believes it because she mistakenly thinks all scholars believe in it. They only share a conclusion but not the faith. John trusts his own feelings and Mary trusts the scholars or what she thinks they teach. John and Mary are not one in faith or trust. They are inventing their faith and nobody agrees on why they believe. Each person invents a faith anew for themselves that just happens to look like the faith of others. This is proven from the fact that it is not evidence that causes faith for few agree on the evidence and it is only interpretation based on what they wish to believe. They say faith is God showing them the truth but we know from the previous discussion that they know and we know this isn’t true. It is really what they guess and feel God is telling them that causes their faith not evidence or God. It’s of human origin. If it wasn’t believers would believe for the same reasons for God would be helping them see what the evidence actually says. There is no real faith without evidence and you know you cannot truly believe that John stole the cashbox unless you have evidence that it must have been him and nobody else. The faith and faith content each person chooses is just a random selection. It only coincides with what others believe for the sake of handiness or of fitting in with the crowd or because they happened to have had the same tastes. The Christian has no right to take his faith seriously. Bigotry is at the root of it when he does. He may do nice sweet ecumenical things but the basic attitude is still bigoted.

What this Church says and does

We proclaim the message of Christ in its fullness

Why this is Bad

You hide nearly all of your nastiest doctrines in books that few read to fool your sheep who then think you are great for you hide your true colours. Jesus talked a lot about Hell in the gospels, he told the Pharisees and scribes exactly what he thought of them and the apostles did the same. Yet you go about all sweetness and light. For example, how many Catholics know that oral sex is a sin and that Christ taught that exorcism should be performed often for demonic possession is very common (Matthew 12:45) or that saints were canonised in the past because of the extreme torments they inflicted on themselves? Even your own complain at your preferring popularity over teaching what your God says must be taught.



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