You are a catholic you defend your religion, i am a christian, I promote Christ, cant you see teh difference??
You promote your opinion of Christ. You have no supporting structure and refuse to submit to any authority more knowledgeable than yourself.
There was a reason why I started that topic, Why cant they call them selves christians..
We have been calling ourselves Christians for 2000 years. The Greek is Christianos. History shows Catholic and Christian are interchangeable.
"Where the Bishop appears, there let the people be, just as where Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church."
St. Ignatius of Antioch's letter to the Smyrneans, paragraph 8, of 106 A.D.,
"Christian is my name, and Catholic my surname. The one designates me, while the other makes me specific. Thus am I attested and set apart... When we are called Catholics it is by this appellation that our people are kept apart from any heretical name."
Saint Pacian of Barcelona, Letter to Sympronian, 375 A.D.
Luk_16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Which is it to be, Jesus or your religion???
Your question is senseless.
1. Best One-Sentence Summary: I am convinced that the Catholic Church conforms much more closely to all of the
biblical data, offers the only coherent view of the
history of Christianity (i.e., Christian, apostolic Tradition), and possesses the most profound and sublime Christian morality, spirituality, social ethic, and philosophy.
2. Alternate: I am a Catholic because I sincerely believe, by virtue of much cumulative evidence, that Catholicism is
true, and that the Catholic Church is the visible Church divinely-established by our Lord Jesus, against which the gates of hell cannot and will not prevail (
Mt 16:18), thereby possessing an
authority to which I feel bound in Christian duty to submit.
3. 2nd Alternate: I left Protestantism because it was seriously deficient in its interpretation of the Bible (e.g., "faith alone" and many other "Catholic" doctrines - see evidences below), inconsistently selective in its espousal of various Catholic Traditions (e.g., the Canon of the Bible), inadequate in its ecclesiology, lacking a sensible view of Christian history (e.g., "Scripture alone"), compromised morally (e.g., contraception, divorce), and unbiblically schismatic, anarchical, and relativistic. I don't therefore believe that Protestantism is all bad (not by a long shot), but these are some of the major deficiencies I eventually saw as fatal to the "theory" of Protestantism, over against Catholicism. All Catholics must regard baptized, Nicene, Chalcedonian Protestants as Christians.
4. Catholicism isn't formally
divided and sectarian (
Jn 17:20-23;
Rom 16:17;
1 Cor 1:10-13).
5. Catholic
unity makes Christianity and Jesus more believable to the world (
Jn 17:23).
6. Catholicism, because of its unified, complete, fully supernatural Christian vision, mitigates against
secularization and humanism.
7. Catholicism avoids an unbiblical
individualism which undermines Christian community (e.g.,
1 Cor 12:25-26).
8. Catholicism avoids
theological relativism, by means of dogmatic certainty and the centrality of the papacy.
9. Catholicism avoids
ecclesiological anarchism - one cannot merely jump to another denomination when some disciplinary measure or censure is called for.
10. Catholicism formally (although, sadly, not always in practice) prevents the theological
relativism which leads to the uncertainties within the Protestant system among laypeople.
11. Catholicism rejects the
"State Church," which has led to governments dominating Christianity rather than vice-versa.
12. Protestant State Churches greatly influenced the rise of
nationalism, which mitigated against universal equality and Christian universalism (i.e., Catholicism).
13. Unified Catholic Christendom (before the 16th century) had not been plagued by the tragic
religious wars which in turn led to the "Enlightenment," in which men rejected the hypocrisy of inter-Christian warfare and decided to become indifferent to religion rather than letting it guide their lives.
14. Catholicism retains the elements of
mystery, supernatural, and the
sacred in Christianity, thus opposing itself to
secularization, where the sphere of the religious in life becomes greatly limited.
15. Protestant individualism led to the
privatization of Christianity, whereby it is little respected in societal and political life, leaving the "public square" barren of Christian influence.
16. The secular false dichotomy of
"church vs. world" has led committed orthodox Christians, by and large, to withdraw from politics, leaving a void filled by pagans, cynics, unscrupulous, and power-hungry. Catholicism offers a framework in which to approach the state and civic responsibility.
17. Protestantism leans too much on mere
traditions of men (every denomination stems from one Founder's vision. As soon as two or more of these contradict each other, error is necessarily present).
18. Protestant churches (esp. evangelicals), are far too often guilty of putting their pastors on too high of a pedestal. In effect,
every pastor becomes a "pope," to varying degrees (some are "super-popes"). Because of this, evangelical congregations often experience a severe crisis and/or split up when a pastor leaves, thus proving that their philosophy is overly man-centered, rather than God-centered.
19. Protestantism, due to lack of real authority and dogmatic structure, is tragically prone to accommodation to the
spirit of the age, and
moral faddism.
http://www.ourcatholicfaith.org/reasons.html