Faith - Belief without Proof

i wanted to know the difference between what it means to be Catholic and Christian. here's what i came up with:

all catholics are within the christian religion. catholics are a sect of christians. christians are the people that believe that christ was the one and only son of God sent here to die for our sins.

the catholic religious institution was the first actual christian church and was and still is quite powerful. it is the one christian sect that will make its priests and nuns practice celebacy, an unnatural human condition. that is one of the reasons why so many men and woman will not consider enteriing into the catholic priesthood/nunnery at all anymore, because they too wish to have a sexual life, to get married and make babies. since the catholic church tells its followers never to use birth control, maybe it should allow its priests and nuns to be married too and to make more children, even if they do not have enough money to even feed one.

the catholic church is that which henry viii turned against to start the anglican (christian) religion in england, but it was because he wished to divorce and still remain king.

the catholic church has been behind sending missionaries all over the planet to change what it determines are pagan methods of worship, or, any type of worship that does not fit into the catholic's set standards of rules that are written in stone.

catholics are heretics that tortured and killed many innocent people during the inquisition, but catholics call people of other faiths heretics.

the catholic church was very, very powerful at the time that the new world, our hemisphere, was conquered by spain. not only did spanish conquistadors kill off around 80% of the native americans just via germs that they carried and were sick by, such as influenza, chicken pox, measles, etc., because native american people just did not have immunity to those diseases, but after that number of native americans were killed, the conquistadores used every method of lying and letting ancients believe that they were gods so that they could plunder societies. part of it all was not just sending gold ingots back to spain to make it richer, but because spain was a catholic country (and still is), spain ensured that catholic missionaries were to be in the new world to change the religious beliefs of who the called "the infidel," which is anyone, so they think, who is not catholic.

martin luther was what the catholics would call an infidel because he broke away from the catholic church to form the lutheran church. however, he is lucky he was not burned alive on the stake for so doing.

as part of the reformation of christians of the almighty catholic church (more people in our times in the usa that were raised strict catholics have become athiests more than in any other christian sect), more and more sects of christians formed their own christian churches.

all christians, whatever sect/church they are in, believe that christ came as the messiah to eat our sins and therefore to go only through him in order to live in heaven. but when you visit other christian churches, almost all of them have a central cross, but not the version showing jesus dying on the cross. the catholic church does always have a crucifiction cross at the center of its church.

other sects of christians that broke away from the catholic church are all referred to as "protestants," protesting the catholic version of how they should worship christ, the saints, and sometimes the holy trinity. catholics always believe in the holy trinity: God the father, Christ the son, and the holy ghost, a spirit of Christ.

protestants might be in churches called: lutheran, episcopalian, baptist, pentacost, mormon, universalitarean, new age (television evangicals), voodoo, and/or in very small, not well known churches in communities, but always do believe that christ came to the earth as the son of God.

jews do not believe that christ was the messiah. they say that if he were, that his life here would have put an end to all of mankind's suffering, but really,only we ourselves can do that.

if you are not of the catholic faith and you go to a mass, you are not to partake in the eating of the "host" or drinking of the "blood" of christ, which is eating a wafer and a small drink of wine, symbols of the body of christ and of his blood.

if you are catholic, a good one, you would go to confession to confess your "sins," whether small or large, and the priest is not, by church law and by separation of state from church, even allowed to tell anyone at all what you told him inside of the confessional, even if you stated that you murdered somebody. he cannot use what you say to help the police find you.

basically the catholic church has its center in a private city of rome that is called vatican city, or, the vatican. that is where the pope lives. it is quite lavish because much gold from native american peoples was used to decorate many items inside of it.

usually, christians, catholic or not, do not believe (as do about 1/3 of the religious people of this planet) that you are ever reincarnated to have another round of life on this planet, again and again, until you reach the state of knowledge whereby you will be allowed to enter the state called nirvana. that is when you will no longer be reincarnated.

all you need to be a christian is to have faith that christ was indeed sent here by God as his only son, his only child, to cleanse the sins of the people. that is the faith that you would have to be any type of christian.

~ End of Lesson 1 ~