Why did these Catholic people refuse? Please read details.?
March 102010
A few months ago my church (Baptist) decided to have a free movie night for the community. The movie was Facing the Giants.
We wanted to invite the people in our surrounding neighborhood to fellowship and find out the needs in our community.
Myself and others went door to door inviting and explaining what we were doing.
Some flat out refused stating that they were Catholics.
I told them it’s wasn’t about what religion we were it was about bringing the community together. They still refused.
One thing I am proud of in my church is although we are Baptist, we don’t announce we are Baptist, we are Christians.
So why would the Catholic’s refuse?
We had no intensions of converting anyone.
This was random door to door, we didn’t know who was behind the door.
We just invited.
L.T.
No egg on my face.
Up until 2006 I was a Catholic, so I know
the history of the Catholic religion.
A religion full of deception and lies.
Other people said they couldn’t come, but they were not snobby like these Catholic’s.
But as to how most of you answered the question, I sense a little snobbish in you all, also.
My whole family and most of my friends are Catholic, and I would never dream of trying to convert them. All I can do is pray for them.
You could never tell me anything about religion.
There is so much Joy being alive in Christ, than being dead in religion.
And the reason I said we were Baptist was to let people know who we were with.
"although we are Baptist, we don’t announce we are Baptist, we are Christians."
Um, you just announced that you’re Baptist. I mean, then, why do you use the label "Baptist" at all?
Look, Catholics know very well that Baptists on the whole consider Catholicism to be a perversion of the "true" Christian faith and they’d rather not be insulted by the silly overtures of neighborly niceness. If you knew a little history of American anti-Catholicism, you’d know that Catholics have good reason to be a little suspicious of invitations from the dominant American Protestants.
Ask the Catholics to help build a Christian day care or a community garden and they might be a little more interested. But what makes you think Catholics are sitting around at home waiting for Baptists to invite them to a movie at a church which mocks their Catholic faith? It would make some sense if Catholics were banned from Netflix or Blockbuster. Frankly, I’d find it weird myself, almost Jehovah’s Witnessy weird.
Long before there were Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists, Mormons, and Unitarians, Catholic = Christian and vice versa. Catholics have called themselves Christian throughout they’re 2000 year history. So even today when Catholics say they’re Catholic, they also mean they’re Christians. Is that really so hard to understand? It’s Protestants who first claimed that Catholics weren’t really Christian. And now you’re saying that Catholics REFUSE to call themselves Christian? Sweetie, don’t look now, but you got a little egg on your face. Never prejudge a form of Christianity that is much, much more ancient and global than yours. Facing the Giants indeed.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:58 pm
They refused because ANY gathering in ANY church where you bring outsiders in is ALWAYS an opportunity for proselytizing and trying to get people to come to your church. They were happy where they were, and they were smart enough to know that even if *you* believed that you were just bringing the community together and offering a nice night, the leaders of your church had other designs.
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March 10th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Maybe they thought you were going to try to convert them.
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March 10th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
I have no idea, I saw the movie and thought it was good, also very heart warming. we need more movies like this one.
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March 10th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
b/c theirs is the "true faith", and everybody else is a hell-bound heretic
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March 11th, 2010 at 12:38 am
Probably because Baptists have a habit of trying to convince us that we are not Christians, that we have to be rebaptized by them (due to our practice of infant baptism and non-immersion), and that we have to abandon our sacraments and go to their church.
Sorry – but its going to take a few years of good behaviour on the part of Baptists in your community before you can expect Catholics to be trusting of you.
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March 11th, 2010 at 12:52 am
Because a lot of Protestant churches use that method to try to get non-Protestants to come to their church and subtly pressure them to attend services there sometime, and eventually convert. I’ve had Mormons attempt to use the same tactic too, more than once.
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March 11th, 2010 at 1:28 am
AMEN GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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March 11th, 2010 at 2:05 am
Because they think they are Christians and you’re not. Either you are a Catholic or you are a heretic, punishment for being a heretic is death.
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I’m Neither of the Above
March 11th, 2010 at 2:40 am
Personally, its a cruddy movie.
For some catholics, we aren’t liked too much- so it would make sense if they feel unwanted in that area.
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March 11th, 2010 at 3:10 am
well i’m sure anonymous people on a website know…
maybe they just didn’t want to see it, maybe they didn’t like the movie
why don’t you ask them?
lost.eu/21618
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March 11th, 2010 at 3:49 am
i dont know prolly cuz they were scared you were going to convert them or something but i like that movie
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March 11th, 2010 at 4:32 am
Sure, bringing the community together like the Campus Crusade promises "free food".
Uh huh.
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March 11th, 2010 at 4:49 am
Try holding another one in a community center and not in a church that is different then theirs.
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March 11th, 2010 at 5:33 am
If I knocked on your door and told you that my group is having a get-together with people in the neighborhood to try to understand some issues… Oh! and by the way, we are a Satanists sect, but it’s okey. We don’t want to know how many children you have. It’s not about that… tonight is not a full moon… It’s a community thing. Honestly…
Would you go?
No. Seriously. You may think it has nothing to do with religion, yet the proposition does rise from your church. Even though I’m not a Christian I wouldn’t go either. Religion corrodes everything it touches and your proposition, well intention as it may be, is, to say at least, suspicious. And yes… it does sound like a covert conversion op. Sorry.
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March 11th, 2010 at 5:43 am
Fear of conviction! There happy with their tradition not the truth
God loves you….God bless
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March 11th, 2010 at 6:11 am
they probably thought it was a church fuction and didn’t want to particapate in another religions activites because there happy with there own, plus not all but alot of baptists try to convert people into there religion so they were probably not tryin to deal with that
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March 11th, 2010 at 6:59 am
Lets say these same people came to you and invited you to their Catholic church what would you have told them. Everyone has their own reasons for not wanting to go and some are already happy where they are and maybe some have heard baptists and Catholics not always got on well so decided to stay away.
Also Catholics have a completely different doctrine to the Baptists so it makes since they kept away but still people need to know the truth and that is in Jesus Christ
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March 11th, 2010 at 7:20 am
I don’t know about these people you mentioned. But I once accepted an invitation to something special at a baptist church. In fact, the pastor himself made the invitation, knowing full well that I was a Catholic. He said that I would be welcomed and assured me that my personal beliefs would not be an issue.
Well, not even an hour after I arrived, the pastor was up at the microphone giving a "short message" — preaching against Catholic doctrines and practices.
I will never set foot into a baptist church again as long as I live. Not only was he rude and disrespectful, but manipulative and very dishonest. This was my first…and last…experience with anything "baptist."
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March 11th, 2010 at 7:30 am
Catholics believe that anyone who is not a Catholic is a heretic.
Look up the word "heretic" or "Heresy" in the dictionary — and you will find that they are right (by definition).
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March 11th, 2010 at 8:08 am
Maby its because they felt that you were trying to convert them even if you wern’t. Also maby they had a sign on their do that says no solisiting or maby they didn’t want to see the movie or didn’t aprove it. One more thing sometimes Catholics judge all protestents about their views of christianity and the rumers that pop up that are lies about Catholics. Please do not be offended by this because not all Catholics are like that.
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March 11th, 2010 at 8:48 am
I doubt that there’s no hidden agenda on your church’s part to make people join your club. your pastors can’t keep their mouth shut when it comes to Catholicism. I know because I have attended in so many radical protestants’ gatherings before and all they talk about is against Catholics. so, what do you expect? I bet after the movie, Catholics will hear so many decietful comments about Catholicism. that’s how the technique of radical protestants go.
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March 11th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Honey, as a former Baptist, I can tell you that ANY gathering of the community in an evangelical church is seen as an opportunity to preach and/or proselytize — and indeed any pastor would consider himself negligent if he did not take even a few minutes to do so. (That’s part of what the "needs in the community" means.) Nothing wrong with it, certainly, but your Catholic neighbors likely know this and would prefer not to put themselves in an awkward position.
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March 11th, 2010 at 9:52 am
"although we are Baptist, we don’t announce we are Baptist, we are Christians."
Um, you just announced that you’re Baptist. I mean, then, why do you use the label "Baptist" at all?
Look, Catholics know very well that Baptists on the whole consider Catholicism to be a perversion of the "true" Christian faith and they’d rather not be insulted by the silly overtures of neighborly niceness. If you knew a little history of American anti-Catholicism, you’d know that Catholics have good reason to be a little suspicious of invitations from the dominant American Protestants.
Ask the Catholics to help build a Christian day care or a community garden and they might be a little more interested. But what makes you think Catholics are sitting around at home waiting for Baptists to invite them to a movie at a church which mocks their Catholic faith? It would make some sense if Catholics were banned from Netflix or Blockbuster. Frankly, I’d find it weird myself, almost Jehovah’s Witnessy weird.
Long before there were Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists, Mormons, and Unitarians, Catholic = Christian and vice versa. Catholics have called themselves Christian throughout they’re 2000 year history. So even today when Catholics say they’re Catholic, they also mean they’re Christians. Is that really so hard to understand? It’s Protestants who first claimed that Catholics weren’t really Christian. And now you’re saying that Catholics REFUSE to call themselves Christian? Sweetie, don’t look now, but you got a little egg on your face. Never prejudge a form of Christianity that is much, much more ancient and global than yours. Facing the Giants indeed.
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March 11th, 2010 at 10:23 am
Maybe thought you were JW or Mormon.
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March 11th, 2010 at 11:02 am
Baptist have a tendency to freak Catholics out. Sorry, that’s just the way it is.
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March 11th, 2010 at 11:37 am
As a Catholic, I can tell you right now that I would have been wary of such an invitation, too. There have been several instances where I was invited to a church for some innocuous-sounding event, only to discover after I got there that the real purpose was to "save my soul." The event was just a pretext to preach to us Catholics about the so-called "evils" of our religion and to show us the "true" path to salvation.
I have to wonder how many of the people you invited have had similar experiences. I’m sorry that your attempt wasn’t more successful, but please try to see things from the perspective of those of us who have reached out innocently in fellowship — only to be humiliated and attacked by so-called ‘fellow’ Christians.
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