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In reply to the discussion: Religion question - Do Catholics NOT accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior? [View all]dawg day
(7,947 posts)And was frequently told that I didn't believe in Jesus, that I never read the Bible, and wouldn't go to heaven.
Back then, however, we Catholic children were sent out during "Mission Week" to "convert the heathens," that is, the Protestants.
But they don't do that anymore. The Fundies seem to still have stupid ideas about Catholics, but you know, most of them voted for Trump, so they have stupid ideas about anything.
(For the record, of course Catholics believe that Jesus is the Lord and Savior. The fundies are stupidly wrong. They might have heard some theological reasoning for this idiocy-- the Catholics do infant baptism, and there's no "born again' nonsense. (You can get baptized at any age, but they baptize babies-- the babies don't choose to be baptized. This is supposed to be important. Catholics are "confirmed" around 12-- that is, they get to choose at that age if they want to continue in the church.) Also, Catholics believe in more than faith -- they think a believer in Christ should follow his example and do good works. This is also against fundamentalist doctrine, which holds that you must be "saved," and that's all that matters.
But none of that matters -- the fundies don't most of them understand the differences anyway. They just want to hate big groups of people, and there are a lot of Catholics, and many of them are non-white and not American. So that gives the fundies many people to hate.