12 Myths Catholics Should Be Able To Answer Without Trouble

The myths, for reference:

1. “There’s no such thing as absolute truth. What’s true for you may not be true for me.”
2. “Christianity is no better than any other faith. All religions lead to God.”
3. “The Old and New Testaments contradict one another in numerous places. If an omnipotent God inspired the Bible, He would never have allowed these errors.”
4. “I don’t need to go to Church. As long as I’m a good person, that’s all that really matters.”
5. “You don’t need to confess your sins to a priest. You can go straight to God.”
6. “If the Church truly followed Jesus, they’d sell their lavish art, property, and architecture, and give the money to the poor.”
7. “Dissent is actually a positive thing, since we should all keep our minds open to new ideas
8. “Properly interpreted, the Bible does not condemn homosexuality. Rather, it weighs against promiscuity — whether homosexual or heterosexual. Therefore, we have no reason to oppose loving homosexual relationships.”
9. “Catholics should follow their conscience in all things . . . whether it’s abortion, birth control, or women’s ordination.”
10. “Natural Family Planning is just the Catholic version of birth control.”
11. “Someone can be pro-choice and Catholic at the same time.”
12. “People’s memories of their past lives prove that reincarnation is true . . . and that the Christian view of Heaven and Hell is not.”

The Ten Commandments are not multiple choice. Some things are immutable.

1. “There’s no such thing as absolute truth. What’s true for you may not be true for me.”
This is so silly and specious that it almost can’t be answered. It’s like saying, “If God can do anything, can he make a rock he can’t move?” Relativists love this one. They think they HAVE us with this (to them) unanswerable question. They think this means God is helpless, toothless, and useless. It gives them leave to behave in any manner they choose without fearing any consequences. Of COURSE there is absolute truth. Does the sun rise in the morning? Do fish need water? Care to step off a cliff and test that theory? Ridiculous. Brush this one away like a fly.

2. “Christianity is no better than any other faith. All religions lead to God.”
Oh, really? Does the maker of this statement really believe Islam, for instance, really leads to God? You can know a tree by the fruit it produces. Do all those other religions produce goodness and truth? Produce positive changes in people’s lives? Promote mercy and justice? Provide hope for a life after death? Judeo-Christianity is better than “any other faith,” regardless of how long that “other faith” has been around. Anybody who thinks about this with their whole brain for more than a second or two will realize it.

3. “The Old and New Testaments contradict one another in numerous places. If an omnipotent God inspired the Bible, He would never have allowed these errors.”
Ah. Another attempt to sound smart. The speaker apparently knows all about the Nature of God, and can state what He would NOT do. The Bible was written by men. They wrote of what they knew at the time. They were inspired by the Spirit of God to write what they experienced. And, the speaker apparently hopes to be able to toss this baby out with the bathwater.

4. “I don’t need to go to Church. As long as I’m a good person, that’s all that really matters.”
Right. Define “good person.” This one might work if people actually did act like “good people.” But they don’t, and that’s why they need to be in church. This is just another excuse to sleep in on Sunday, do whatever they want (as long as they don’t “kill somebody or rob a bank,” of course), and continue without changing their lives. Like they said, Good people. So, what’s wrong with being HOLY people? Isn’t that what God has called us all to do? Church shows us the way to holiness of life. Of course, it’s a difficult way, with lots of temptations and obstacles, and most people simply don’t want to do the work involved in getting holy.

5. “You don’t need to confess your sins to a priest. You can go straight to God.”
In the first place, a priest is ordained by a linear “heir” of the first Apostles, and the power imparted to him is real spiritual power. Don’t sell his office short. It is ordained. The man may be a sinner, but his Orders are holy.

Churches have requirements for behavior. Sinful acts generally go against these requirements. And, besides, Confession to a priest is going straight to God. Priests are called and ordained specifically to comply with Christ’s orders: “Whose sins you shall forgive shall be forgiven them, and whose sins you shall retain shall be retained of them.” This really does indicate a priest’s role in forgiveness. Picture a brick wall. Now, take out one brick at a time. It won’t be long before that wall collapses. Same way with sins. When we sin, we pull a brick from the wall of the congregation. The priest, by virtue of those Holy Orders, replaces those bricks properly. An oversimplification, of course, but remember that you won’t be speaking to Great Brains.

6. “If the Church truly followed Jesus, they’d sell their lavish art, property, and architecture, and give the money to the poor.”
This one is usually the killing slice, the coup de’ grace. Everybody KNOWS that rich, nasty ol’ Catholic church sits on all the money in the world! The Vatican Museum is a MUSEUM. Those treasures belong to the world, and everybody with a wit knows it. So, ok. Let’s say the Church sells all that stuff. Maybe realizes a couple billion dollars or so. Then what? How long will that amount feed all the poor in the world? “Give the poor the money?” How many poor people does this questioner think there are in the world?? Two billion dollars would buy maybe a week’s worth of food, then the money would be gone. Same with just handing it out. The treasures in the Vatican museum are in the safest possible place, and anybody in the world can come and see them any time. The Vatican museum is open to the public, and this is another silly, specious, unthought-out phony argument, made by SELFISH leftists who wouldn’t give a personal cent to the poor, but demand that the government step in and give my tax dollars freely. Figures.

7. “Dissent is actually a positive thing, since we should all keep our minds open to new ideas.
More relativism. This just means, “I want to rebel against the rules of the Church, against the Laws of God, and against anyone who says I can’t do what I want.” Typical relativistic “thought.” I’ll bet these are people who have never had to do a single thing they didn’t want to do, or a thing that was difficult (like obey), or to deny themselves a single physical satisfaction.

8. “Properly interpreted, the Bible does not condemn homosexuality. Rather, it weighs against promiscuity — whether homosexual or heterosexual. Therefore, we have no reason to oppose loving homosexual relationships.”
This is blasphemy. These people know a “proper interpretation” of the Bible, I take it. What they really mean is, “carefully twisted and parsed…” The Bible repeatedly and vehemently opposes and condemns homosexual behavior in men and in women. This myth is just more relativism: More people who don’t want anybody to tell them there are lines that must not be crossed. What part of “Thou Shalt Not…” do they not understand? More people who just want to go to hell in their own special fashion, and take as many like-minded folks with them as possible.

9. “Catholics should follow their conscience in all things . . . whether it’s abortion, birth control, or women’s ordination.”
More relativistic twaddle. The Church tells us to form our consciences PROPERLY, and “properly” implies compliance with certain absolute norms. This means that a good conscience conforms to the Laws of God. This one is related to the lie regarding “dissent,” above. These people could very easily go out and make their own church. It’s being done every day, by many people. But they don’t want that. Their aim is simple–to destroy the Catholic Church. Building their own denomination isn’t part of their plan. Women can’t be ordained in the Catholic Church because it doesn’t have the authority to do so. There were no women ordained in the early Church, so there are no historic grounds for tradition regarding women’s ordination.

10. “Natural Family Planning is just the Catholic version of birth control.”
They can call it whatever they like. NFP is submitting one’s sexual identity to God. What IS “birth control?” If they mean “contraception,” then they are 100% wrong. There is no “contra-” about NFP. Every act of intercourse is left open to the possibility of life. Don’t want a baby right now? Don’t have intercourse. But, of course, this means having some discipline, and denying oneself a momentary pleasure for three or four days. Such a BURDEN! Pathetic spoiled brats have to have their fun NOW. Behaving like adults is so much like work.

11. “Someone can be pro-choice and Catholic at the same time.”
Isn’t it interesting how many of these false assumptions have to do with sex? One would think sex was the most important thing in the world. Well, in the minds of a lot of relativists, it probably is. Unable to control their sex drives, they make up plausible-sounding platitudes to cover up the fact that they just can’t keep it in their pants/panties. “Pro-Choice” means “pro-ABORTION.” No ifs, ands, or buts about it. If I say that my choice was LIFE, I will be attacked and calumniated. Pro-”choicers” believe that it is okay to slaughter a child in its mother’s womb simply because it exists inconveniently. The Catholic Church has always stood strongly against all forms of humans playing God: In-vitro fertilization means forcing conception out of season. Artificial insemination, the same. Abortion supporters believe that unborn children are part of the mother’s body, when in truth, the baby is its own person–half the time, a different sex, often a different blood type, with a life not theirs to take. These people want unfetterd, indiscriminate sex whenever they want it, with no hindrances or consequences, especially children. The ugliest, most brutal form of selfishness.

12. “People’s memories of their past lives prove that reincarnation is true . . . and that the Christian view of Heaven and Hell is not.”
LOL! Anything, as long as it removes their responsibility to God. Jesus says it is given to man to die once, then comes judgment. There really are no do-overs, no second chances. I guess people who want what they want when they want it will be expecting extra lives in which to get what they didn’t get in the life before. Whatever. Some people will believe anything, as long as it doesn’t involve believing in Jesus Christ, His ministry, His crucifixion, and his Resurrection, and the responsibility that comes with faith. I have something to tell them: “Good luck! I hope you like warm climates.”