I think the key here is to understand, even from the Old Testament, that that Amish sort of Mennonite understanding is really not biblical. You know what, I think I got the gist of this, so if I could jump in, Anonymous. Host: That is very consistent where many Protestants are not, Anonymous. Like, personally offensive, and let me explain a little bit why: growing up in the Amish tradition, you don’t even take pictures, because those are “graven images,” you know? So like, in my home now, even though I’m no longer even Mennonite, I’m just in a mainstream Protestant Church, I don’t have nativities in my home, I don’t have pictures of Jesus in my home, I don’t wear a cross with the crucifix. So that was in the past but even now today, a couple times I’ve been in Catholic churches and I find the statues really offensive. Like, you know, hocus-pocus stuff or whatever. Like, I would hear stories sometimes about, like, there were miracles by a Virgin Mary statue or something, and she was crying, and I just felt like that just seems crazy. And help me with this hurdle, and it might just be personal, but it has to do with the physical part of Catholicism. So what is really getting at you, Anonymous?Ĭaller: Ok, so here let me tell you, so why am I not Catholic? Yes, okay. I actually believe in that, but it’s just hard–so who should have that authority? That’s not really my question, though. So I’ve been listening a lot the last three months, but things that have–and there’s a lot of things I don’t have an issue with, like the idea of a universal Church and a universal authority. So I was just channel surfing and I found Catholic radio, I–first of all, I was just blown away. I have a long drive to work, and I was so tired of NPR, and I couldn’t, you know, I didn’t want sports talk, I find Christian radio pretty boring, and all of that. But it was just, there was nothing along the way that would have made me interested at all until about three months ago. Host: It would be really bad if it was at the wedding.Ĭaller: Right, exactly, it was the reception. Tim: And mind you, it wasn’t the wedding I’m sure you’re talking about the reception! Host: I can assure you, Anonymous, having been married two years ago in the Catholic Church, the wedding with my wife was nothing like that, so that must have been an anomaly. You know, like everybody was drunk and it was crazy and it was just like, I couldn’t– Like, I went to a Catholic wedding and it was ridiculous. And then the little touches that I had with Catholicism, just, I wasn’t interested. My parents were Amish, I was raised Mennonite and I live in a very large Mennonite community, and honestly Catholicism was never even on my radar.Ĭaller: Yeah, like in high school I think maybe we had one Catholic family, you know. Host: The question is: why are you Protestant?Ĭaller: Why am I Protestant? Okay, well, like many others, I’m Protestant mostly because I was born Protestant. Host: We are going to go to Anonymous in Syracuse, Indiana. Tim Staples answers a caller who objects to Catholicism in part because she believes statues in churches are graven images of the sort prohibited in Exodus 20:4.
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