noggi16 said:As a Catholic I do feel different from other Christian denominations; we do have a slightly different outlook and different structure to the Church while obviously sharing many features.
Despite this the Catholic church in England atleast at grass-roots level has very little to do with other Christian denominations; while there is a general distrust of Christians or people with faith, the agression towards Catholics especially where I live because alot of us are of Irish origin is very strong. You get lots of jokes even now about the IRA and the Catholic mafia. This discrimination isn't imaginary.
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I know what you mean when you say you feel different when you say you are a Catholic. People what my religion is and I always say "I'm a Christian" instead of "A Catholic." I don't see the difference since we are all brothers and sisters. But Christians always look at me and say "I though you were Catholic." To me, it's the same thing. We all love God right? We believe in His power right? Sure there are some differneces, but we are all the same.
And the whole "Catholic jokes." I had a class discussion in history the other day and we were talking about prohibition. Someone said, "Prohibtion doesn't work. Look at the Catholics. They are always drinking." I said out loud to the people around me, "Now why does she gotta talk about the Catholics like that?" Some people always crack jokes about Catholic Irishmen, but there *are* other Catholics that don't drink. It juss kinda gets to me when they say things like that...
Enough of my rant...
I love God, for He is great.