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What is the dffernce between catholic and christian religion?
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Catholicism is a sect of Christianity (which is the belief in the Judeo-Christian God).
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The difference is ritual.
Ritual is things that we catholics do because its traditional, basically because people have been doing for very long times. The communion is supposed to be a ritual to emulate Christ.
For the most part, the basic beliefs in Christ are identical. We believe in the new testament, etc. Morally also things are very similar. The main difference between Catholics and other Christian denominations is the importance of the church.
The catholic church comes very close to equating God and the Church organization on equal terms.
To give a comparison, a baptist minister is holy because he devotes himself to God, and is a community leader who tries to do good acts and guide others. A priest is holy because he devotes himself to God and is part of the church.
Having been raised in Catholic dogma theres alot I don't agree with. The church is far to self serving for a holy organization, in my opinion. It is a basic human truth that all those who gain power fear to lose it, and move to protect it. The Catholic church has that selfsame weakness.
But thats my personal opinion.
Fundamentally, theres not a ton of difference. If you asked the same "Do you believe X" questions you'd get most of the same answers from Catholics as you'd get from other denominations. The differences all have to do with ritual and with the church itself.
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There is a slight difference. Yes, Catholicism is a "branch" of Christianity, but Catholicism's main belief is that the Communion is to be taken each week, just as Jesus told us to do.
Some sects of Christianity believe in doing that every so often, but if I am not mistaken, only Catholicism [Roman Catholicism, as well] believes it should be received every week.
But both believe that Jesus is the Messiah.
--Jack
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There is none.
Catholicism (Catholic) is a sect of Christianity. Meaning, it's a smaller branch of Christianity.
Maybe you meant the difference between Protestants and Catholics? Or Judaism and Christianity?
Well, Protestantism and Catholicism are again different sects within Christianity. They believe essentially the same things, just how they worship is a little different. You can find more information by searching Google, or even Wikipedia. ;]
Judaism and Christianity worship the same God. However, Judaism doesn't believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, while Christianity does. The Messiah is the savior. So, Christians are followers of Jesus Christ who believe that he is our savior. Those are the basics for the most part. I am no expert on Judaism, or Christianity for that matter, so I again suggest Google.
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