Andrea Hawkins
Bold Talk

Any time I watch news or TV, it always seems like the person who displays a person of Christian faith is Catholic. Now I’m pretty sure that my faith isn’t at all Catholic and shouldn’t be displayed as such. I mean, it would be like all Dodger baseball fans speaking for all baseball fans. It’s all still pretty much baseball, but it still just isn’t the same.
When I watch the news and they are talking about Christian subjects, the person usually speaking for all Christians is wearing all black and a white collar. Let me explain some key differences between Protestants and Catholics.
Protestants don’t alter the Bible in any way. They keep it as it is and believe what is says. The different denominations of Protestants are geared toward different personality types, but they all pretty much teach the same thing. It would take a book to explain the minute differences, but here it is unnecessary.
Catholics however believe in not only the Bible, but tradition. Which isn’t bad, it just is. Their Bible is different in one distinct way. The Ten Commandments are altered.
My husband and I were driving the other day and we came across a Catholic Church. We heard a while back that Catholics took the Second Commandments out and then took the last Commandment and made it two. We did a little bit of investigative work and took a picture of the Ten Commandments standing outside the Catholic Church.
After looking at the photo, we found out for ourselves that the Second Commandment doesn’t even get mentioned at all. What on earth could the Catholics not agree with so much that they would take it out of the original Ten Commandments written in all Bibles, but their own.
I won’t make you wait any longer, because you probably don’t have a Bible to look up Exodus 20. It basically says, to keep it short, “You shouldn’t make idols and worship them or bow down to them.”
I’m not pretending to know exactly why Catholics had to take the second commandment out. Maybe to be justified to bow down to the Virgin Mary and worshiping a replica of the cross with Jesus still on it.
I don’t agree with this practice. I am personally a little insulted ever time a Catholic priest stands up to represent all Christians. Or the onProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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time a TV show has a Christian, he or she is Catholic. This isn’t in all instances but more than not.
There is a difference and I don’t care what religion you are, but if you are Muslim, you wouldn’t want a Jew speaking on your behalf, and it would never happen in today’s politically correct world. Everyone is so politically correct for all religions except one that teaches out of the Bible, word for word, without adding or taking away.
I’m offended. Yet it doesn’t matter that I am offended because I am Christian, the only type of person that can be offended regularly. I am not ashamed of my beliefs and if you aProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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Catholic I think that is great. Half my family is Catholic and I love them dearly, but please don’t speak on my behalf. And I promise, I will not speak for you in terms of religion because I have respect for differences of opinion and religion.

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