Question about catholics?

I've wondered that too. I've thought praying to a Saint as putting that Saint before God. The 1st Commandment doesn't allow for that. Also, humans determine who is a Saint not God. How can humans be so bold?

A for God and Jesus, toss in the Holy Spirit and you get the Trinity. They are three in one. Yes that doesn't make a lot of sense. But I find most organized religion doesn't make enough sense and I am a practicing Christian.

What I don't understand the most is resistance to change. The reason why Catholic priests can't marry is in the middle ages priests could marry and when they died their families inherited church property. The laws on such things were poorly written or did not exist. Things in that area have changed. The church doesn't have to worry about its property being taken out from under it.

Another thing I don't get is CHristians are supposed to be loving and inclusive of other CHristians to say the least. Yet Sunday morning at 11AM is the most segregated time in America. Black people to their churches and white people go to their churches. Why can't black baptists and white baptists worship together? The same goes for all faiths? Why this segregation?

<<Question about catholics? Isn't it polytheistic since they worship god and Jesus?>>

God the Father and Christ Jesus are ONE and the SAME as they share the same Divine Nature. Therefore, there is only ONE God.

<<Also they pray to the saints so doesn't that make them like demi-gods?>>

No. The Faithful on earth are in Communion with the Saints in Heaven. While we and they are in different places, we are not separated.

<<I grew up catholic but now I'm atheist and I've always wondered this question.>>

You didn't learn much in your time as a Catholic!

Good question!

We believe that Jesus and God are one. God The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit are one. The Trinity. Also the saints aren't demi gods. Prayer isn't a form of worship, it's a form of communication. We ask them to pray for us to the Father. more like the same way you would ask someone on Earth to pray for you.

May Peace be with you!

Many Christian faiths believe in the Trinity: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are all one, so worshipping god and jesus is not polytheism.

Prayer to saints is to ask them to intercede with God on your behalf -- no different than asking your friends and relations to pray for you. So no, the saints are not demi gods.

Polytheism is belief in more than one god. Monotheism is belief in only one God. Catholics affirm monotheism. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are seperate persons of the one true God. Jesus is known as the Word made flesh. The Holy Spirit is like the love between the Father and Son that proceeds from the Father and the Son.

To separate God into 3 persons may sound strange to some but it is not claiming 3 gods but rather 3 persons of the one God.

The Saints are not gods or divine. They do partake in the divine nature in the heavenly realm as St Paul mentions in scripture. Asking for their prayers is on the same principle as asking a friend to pray for you. Catholics and Orthodox believe we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses who offer up incense or prayers for the saints on earth. We believe that death can not separate us from the love of God nor from his Body of Christ that is on Earth or in heaven. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

No, we are monotheistic. The Father, Son(Jesus) & the Holy Spirit Are One God.

We do not worship Mary or the Saints. We honour them because they are with God.

They see Jesus as the son of god. You need to understand that catholics (or those that guide by the bible) needed some type of mainstream guidence to keep them on the right track.

I know that Jesus was for real. I'm not Catholic or Cristian. I beleave that all roads lead to God. Be it

Cathilic, Cristian, Jewish, Muslam Etc...

Once we realize that God would like you to beleave in him we would then get along.

Extreamist muslams are doing what the crusaders did back then. Im against all of it but some progress faster than others...

At the end the goal is to be happy and live in peace.........

We pray to the Trinity (Triune God) Saints are not Demi-Gods. We do not pray to them or the Blessed Virgin Mary. We ask them to intercede for us with God

Jesus worshiped the Almighty God, his Father Jehovah. At no time did he encourage or accept the least form of worship from his followers, not even allowing them to call him 'good' without a definite reprimand...

The holy spirit doesn't even have a name, but they insist that it is a spirit person & part of their triune-god.

Scripture says that Christ was created BY God, rather than that he is --or, is part of-- God Almighty...

"Is There Only One True God?"

- Figments of the Imagination

- Jesus, the Angels, and the Devil

http://watchtower.org/e/200602b/article_01.htm

"Who Is "the Only True God"?

- Jesus' Position in Heaven

- Name of the Lamb and of the Father

- The Trinity---Whose Teaching?

- The Father---Superior to the Son

- The Trinity and the Church

- The Trinity's Early Origins

http://watchtower.org/e/20050422/article_02.htm

IF you really want to inspect the details,

this brochure (online) does a very thorough job:

"Should You Believe in the Trinity?"

http://watchtower.org/e/ti/article_01.htm {Index

(I didn't go into algebra, let alone geometry, but I did fine in math...

And no math class I was ever in taught that 1+1+1=1.)

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Since they pray to Saints it does kind of make them polytheistic.