Thread 82180662

I dislike Catholics. They all behave like they're a hivemind and are incapable of understanding anyone who doesn't gobble up their beliefs and ideologies without questions. If you do ask questions or show any signs of disagreement, you're silently cast aside by everyone. They don't care about bringing people close to God, they only care about keeping up appearances in their grandiose churches and rosaries. I've never met such non-Christian Christians in my entire life.

>>82180662 (OP)
Every catholic I've met has been either incredibly sweet and easy-going or an uptight bastard. Very odd

>>82180676
I never met any Catholic person who was sweet. They're all so brainwashed, and even converts are exclusionary towards non-converts (like me). They're nice to your face but exclude you from activities, even the priests suck ass. They're incredibly bad at advocating for their religion unlike Protestants (not all, but they're usually much better at engaging with people). They'd literally read shit to you from the Catechism as if it could make you believe in God. They're so cold and sterile it's actually off putting.

Catholics are as stupid as fundamentalists. Their entire belief system is rooted in magic and the impossible (transubstantiation is a bullshit term that's basically just transmutation but trying to sounds less stupid).

Nuns are basically Muslim beekeeper women but even worse somehow. No one can fuck them because they're married to Jesus' fucking ghost. What a horrible insane thing to do to your own daughter. Marry her to a fucking ghost of a dead rabbi in outer space. Blow your fucking brains out you lunatic retards.

If anyone tells me they're a practicing Catholic, I just assume their minds are a blank slate and they've never had a thought that someone else didn't tell them to think. Truly empty, and 90% of the time they're mean and humorless. Just a miserable fucking angry dipshit that can't wait to die and meet his imaginary king. Beyond mental illness, pure madness.

>>82180749
Well I agree with Catholics being mean and humorless, but I disagree with shitting on Christianity as a whole.

>>82180662 (OP)
We know, Ari.

>>82180761
>but I disagree with shitting on Christianity as a whole.
I did too until I actually sat down with one and asked her to explain it to me while trying to keep an open mind, it all fundamentally sounds wrong when you really think about it.

>>82180762
Who?

>>82180768
Dunno anon, all the nice Christians I encounter are online. I don't live in a Christian majority country, so I'm only exposed to very little. I wish I met someone who felt human who could indulge me about Christianity, but all I met was dead inside Catholics.

>>82180777
For starters, I think a lot of self-professed Christians do not practice i.e don't participate in church or church-adjacent groups. I have for one made a few friends online who at one point would consider themselves Christian but gave it up / lost their faith / w/e (most weren't raised Christian but came from atheist families).
Catholics are stereotyped as the stiff straight-edge christies but really it's just semantics. The ones who take up Christianity / Catholicism later in life are usually in such a fucked place to begin with that they have nowhere left to go. It's why churches are always funding resources for the poor / homeless, because they are essentially their marketing demographic. When you go to Sunday school you can see the tactics they use to try and get non-believers on board- asking them if they felt something was missing in their life or if they felt something supernatural that they couldn't explain. It's predatory behaviour that flies under the radar as spiritual guidance, and it's not just limited to Catholicism.

>>82180823
I'm referring to Christians who practice their faith, though. Honestly I don't see a problem with evangelizing to people who are in bad places in life, assuming you aren't a Mormon or Scientologist or something insane like that. I can also say that I've been looking for God lately because of the way my life is. I think it's normal to look for a higher power when you're in a low place, but again it depends on the person. I suppose that someone who's an atheist wouldn't think about it, but I've mostly been an agnostic. It's just hard for me to buy into that whole "Jesus loved you so much that he sacrificed himself for you". Like how am I supposed to believe that? But I couldn't believe any other religion either. It's just that I'm intrigued by Christianity.

>>82180839
>Honestly I don't see a problem with evangelizing to people who are in bad places in life, assuming you aren't a Mormon or Scientologist or something insane like that.
It all depends on where you draw the line. I also can't bring myself to believe that if there was a God above us that he would have so much concern for us and let us into his paradise so long as we do the tasks his 'messengers' set out for us. Just seems odd that as though no other species mourns when a cat gets hit by a car or a tiger rips the throat out of a gazelle, somehow humans are the only ones exempt from staying on this earth. Unless you ignore His word in which case the punishment is eternal torture. Every part of it reads sham. If that edgy then I don't really care. All religion is just cope in a strange world. An ugly one maybe, but there's still something beautiful to be found in it.

>>82180761
>but I disagree with shitting on Christianity as a whole.
I just don't care for religion period, but I'm especially against all of Catholicism. If you keep religion to yourself, whatever, I'm cool. I've just had half a lifetime of being told how great the sky magicians are, and how bad I am for daring to question their illogical super powers and wacky stories.

I'm sure it's great or whatever if you're Methodist or something, I don't care and I don't want to hear about it anymore.

Reminder that most of the seething you see about Catholics online is from literal Jews.

>>82180984
Let's not make this into an us vs them scenario, Jewish priests literally suck blood from mutilated infant weiners. That's all you have to know to realise it is a barbaric cult that needs to be exterminated.

>>82180984
>>82181011
I rebuke the devil inside of you both.

I was raised Protestant, but as I've gotten older the more I think about Christianity the scarier it seems.
>born into a messed up broken world
>tasked by God with living a perfect, sinless life in said broken world
>this task is admittedly impossible, the Bible says nobody has or ever will manage to live a sinless life
>punisent for failure to complete the impossible task is eternal, never ending torture
>the only way out of this grim fate is to devote your life to being friends with the guy who is putting the gun to your head in the first place
I don't understand.

>>82180662 (OP)
Catholics are funny how they will try to quote bible verses.
Like, bitch. If Martin Luther hadn't protested you wouldn't even be able to read that book.

>>82181510
i was raised catholic, too.