<p>Lol, yeah, I was pleasantly surprised to find so little Catholic-bashing in this thread! I'm an an ex-Lutheran-current-Roman Catholic myself, so I have a fairly good grasp of both sides. I want to mention that its wrong to group all protestants into one group because they are all so different from one another. Lutheranism is quite simiar to Catholicism (although I feel there are some things missing in it) and I never experienced anti-Catholicism at my old Lutheran church. Nor have I ever heard any Catholic church denounce protestants. However, I have experienced quite a bit of anti-Catholicism from several "born-again" variety evangelicals as well as from the liberal end of the spectrum. On that note, I would like to make a couple rebuttals:</p>
<p>"What do you disagree with, the fact that he was Jewish? that he actaully did create the elaborate christian religion before he died? And if he did...why would he name it after himself?" </p>
<p>Of course Jesus was Jewish, he came in order to fulfill prophecies made by Jewish prophets- which essentially changed Judaism into what we now know as Christianity. Jesus didn't give it a name, nor did he ever intend for it to be an entirely different religion- simply a continuation of the religion handed down in the Jewish tradition.</p>
<p>"And what's really the kicker, is that the real Jesus of Nazareth based his life on helping people, the misrepresented; jews, slaves, women, all of whom this man tried to help. If Jesus himself personally created this religion, why would it chant against homoxexuality, chant that women are inferior, and that if you didn't belong to this religion you were automatically going to hell?"</p>
<p>Catholics do not "chant" against the misrepresented. True, we don't believe that homosexual behavior is to be condoned, but Catholics are told to love everyone and treat them as EQUALS. And we are told that it is NEVER our right to judge another person's soul. You should really read the Catechism before you make accusations.</p>