Are you a real catholic?

[Josiah]

Could it be because I am a Catholic?

I guess I'm 94% Catholic..... Actually, of course, I gave the current RC Denomination responses, working the "test" rather than expressing the correct view, giving what I felt the quiz writer would consider the appropriate response. In at least one case, the test wasn't even accurate of the Catholic position but I was able to detect the least wrong response, the one the test writer obviously wanted (the quiz writer obviously isn't a correct Catholic).


I think the POINT here is that it seems non-Catholics often do pretty much as well (if not better) than Catholics. I'm not being overly-critical here, I'm sure the same would be true if there was a quiz about Lutherans: truth is, most laity are not well trained theologically. IMO, the reason why Catholics do worse is not because theological education there is necessarily worse than elsewhere but because Catholicism is SO confusing, entangled and just plain big: Your Catholic Catechism is some 600 pages long, my Lutheran one is 12 pages long.... mine hasn't changed one letter in nearly 500 years (no additions, no deletions, no edits, no changes) yours is CONSTANTLY changing (is my 1994 edition already obsolete?), it's impossible for Catholics to keep up. I'm not saying it's typical, but I CAN sincerely tell you that I think I know and understand Catholicism better than virtually all of my "Catholic" relatives... not infrequently, I've had to get out my Catholic Catechism to correct or teach a Catholic friend or relative about Catholicism... most of the Catholics I know would not get a 100% on that (admittedly flawed) quiz - most probably wouldn't get 50% even on that pretty simple quiz. A LOT of Lutherans might do better than a LOT of Catholics (because a lot of our teachings are vis-a-vis medieval Catholicism) - yet a FEW Catholics complain that non-Catholics don't understand Catholicism and thus are disqualified from speaking/posting about it. That's the point here, IMO.


My pov


Pax Christi


- Josiah




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[MoreCoffee]

Josiah, you're a Lutheran are you not?

 

[Josiah]

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Sometimes Protestants know more about Catholicism than Catholics....



Again, MoreCoffee, I think the POINT here is that it seems non-Catholics often do pretty much as well (if not better) than Catholics; they often seem to know as much or more about Catholicism than many Catholics.

I'm not being overly-critical here: truth is, most laity in all denominations are not particularly well trained theologically. IMO, the reason why Catholics do worse is not because theological education there is necessarily worse than elsewhere but because Catholicism is SO confusing, so entangled and just plain so much: Your Catholic Catechism is some 600 pages long, my Lutheran one is 12 pages long.... mine hasn't changed one letter in nearly 500 years (no additions, no deletions, no edits, no changes) yours is CONSTANTLY changing (is my 1994 edition already obsolete?), it's impossible for Catholics to keep up.

I'm not saying it's typical, but I CAN sincerely tell you that I think I know and understand Catholicism better than virtually all of my "Catholic" relatives... not infrequently, I've had to get out my Catholic Catechism to correct or teach a Catholic friend or relative about Catholicism... most of the Catholics I know would not get a 100% on that (admittedly flawed) quiz - most probably wouldn't get 50% even on that pretty simple quiz. A LOT of Lutherans might do better than a LOT of Catholics (because a lot of our teachings are vis-a-vis medieval Catholicism) - yet a FEW Catholics complain that non-Catholics don't understand Catholicism and thus are disqualified from speaking/posting about it. That's the point here, IMO.



Thank you.


- Josiah

 

[Rens]

I think the POINT here is that it seems non-Catholics often do pretty much as well (if not better) than Catholics. I'm not being overly-critical here, I'm sure the same would be true if there was a quiz about Lutherans:

That quiz from you? The first one yes, but that one no way.
I had 38 questions good. FAIL it said. It's way too specific or evangelicals in general dunno much about all that LOL.

 

[MoreCoffee]

That quiz from you? The first one yes, but that one no way.
I had 38 questions good. FAIL it said. It's way too specific or evangelicals in general dunno much about all that LOL.

The quiz is at a child's level, admittedly 8th grade places the child at about 13 or 14 years of age but it is still a child's level of understanding rather than a mature adult's level of understanding. Being an adult Catholic ought to mean one has experience as well as knowledge and wisdom as well as catechism answers. That is true of Evangelicals in evangelical theology just as it is true of Catholics and Catholic theology. Of course not everybody is keenly interested in theology but every Christian is in love with God and that love leads to all sorts of deep wisdom and experience deepened knowledge.

 

[Krissy Cakes]

I am not Catholic but my grandparents are.

I got: 100% - You Were Born And Raised Catholic!

 

[MoreCoffee]

I am not Catholic but my grandparents are.

I got: 100% - You Were Born And Raised Catholic!

There's a second quiz that is a little more difficult. It is at http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=are-you-smarter-than-catholic-8th-grader-2

Give it a go and see how you do. It may be more challenging.

 

[Krissy Cakes]

There's a second quiz that is a little more difficult. It is at http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=are-you-smarter-than-catholic-8th-grader-2

Give it a go and see how you do. It may be more challenging.

I got 18/100 .. I suck .. Guess that tells you I'm not Catholic.

 

[MoreCoffee]

I got 18/100 .. I suck .. Guess that tells you I'm not Catholic.

You don't suck

But the second quiz was less easy. And you're not a Catholic so don't be disheartened, nobody expects you to know the answers in the quiz.

God bless.

 

[Tigger]

56/100

 

[Cassia]

31/100 the first one was 100% but that was christianity 101. The second was mostly correct guesses, but had to think outside of the box to get them