Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Catholic here, and I"m surprised at the discussion of "gory crosses." Most (not all) of the crucifixes I have seen show very little or no blood. Yes, there are nails through his hands and feet, but no blood showing. In all my years as a Catholic child I never really realized or was told the gory details associated with being crucified. I was well into adulthood before it even occurred to me.

Even a little blood coming from nail holes in hands and feet is gory to someone who's not used to seeing it once a week, as big (or bigger) than life, as the centerpiece of an altar. Did you ever do the stations of the cross as a child? It's all about how Jesus was humiliated and tortured on the way to his death.
#10 is Jesus is stripped of his garments and #11 is Jesus is nailed to the cross

The catholic day, catholic week, catholic year is all centered on the stations and crucifixion. On the suffering for us.

If thats not for you its not for you. Please don't try to sanitize the catholic church because you find it "triggering".

Just find a different religion.

Catholics are hardcore.

Again with the long list of reasons that Catholicism is bad, bad, bad.

Tiresome.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Catholic here, and I"m surprised at the discussion of "gory crosses." Most (not all) of the crucifixes I have seen show very little or no blood. Yes, there are nails through his hands and feet, but no blood showing. In all my years as a Catholic child I never really realized or was told the gory details associated with being crucified. I was well into adulthood before it even occurred to me.

Even a little blood coming from nail holes in hands and feet is gory to someone who's not used to seeing it once a week, as big (or bigger) than life, as the centerpiece of an altar. Did you ever do the stations of the cross as a child? It's all about how Jesus was humiliated and tortured on the way to his death.
#10 is Jesus is stripped of his garments and #11 is Jesus is nailed to the cross

My DC handle Stations of the Cross just fine as does every other child I see there.

Anonymous wrote:Catholic here, and I"m surprised at the discussion of "gory crosses." Most (not all) of the crucifixes I have seen show very little or no blood. Yes, there are nails through his hands and feet, but no blood showing. In all my years as a Catholic child I never really realized or was told the gory details associated with being crucified. I was well into adulthood before it even occurred to me.

Even a little blood coming from nail holes in hands and feet is gory to someone who's not used to seeing it once a week, as big (or bigger) than life, as the centerpiece of an altar. Did you ever do the stations of the cross as a child? It's all about how Jesus was humiliated and tortured on the way to his death.
#10 is Jesus is stripped of his garments and #11 is Jesus is nailed to the cross

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

My Presbyterian church has a beautiful wooden cross suspended from the ceiling, but no body.

Because the important thing is that he is risen, not that he was crucified.

Because that is your religion and believe. That is your "important" thing.

Catholics believe different and have different "important" things.

Stop being smug.

Who's being smug? And isn't the resurrection more important than the crucifixion to Catholics as well. Lots of people were crucifed, but only Jesus came back from the dead to live forever.

Anonymous wrote:

My Presbyterian church has a beautiful wooden cross suspended from the ceiling, but no body.

Because the important thing is that he is risen, not that he was crucified.

Because that is your religion and believe. That is your "important" thing.

Catholics believe different and have different "important" things.

Stop being smug.

Anonymous wrote:So everyone believes that Jesus HAD to die in order to free souls that were never given that chance of entering heaven?

And yet we know that Cinderella really didn't wear glass slippers.

Children learn that fairy tales like Cinderella are just stories. They don't learn that about the Christian stories and if they question standard Christian beliefs like the crucifixion and the resurrection, they are told that those things actually happened and they must believe them in order to avoid eternal punishment.

If someone threatened children about Cinderella that way, they'd might keeping believing in her too

So everyone believes that Jesus HAD to die in order to free souls that were never given that chance of entering heaven?

And yet we know that Cinderella really didn't wear glass slippers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

My Presbyterian church has a beautiful wooden cross suspended from the ceiling, but no body.

Because the important thing is that he is risen, not that he was crucified.

That's nice for you.

Catholics are inculcated, by seeing Christ on the cross from birth onwards, to his suffering and to the idea that it's important to be reminded of that on a regular basis. Many Catholic families have crucifixes on display in their homes and of course, there's a crucifix on the rosary, where you rub your fingers over each bead or icon as you say the appropriate prayer.

I don't get this at all.

All Christians believe Jesus was crucified. The Catholic Church does not have a monopoly on that.

Perhaps the Catholics emphasize a bit more that Christ suffered and died for us, but in the end all the churches have a service for the passion of Christ.

OP if you have a problem with crucifixion, you have a problem with Christianity of whatever stripe.

Anonymous wrote:There have been a few comparable threads lately about doubts about Catholicism.

If you can't get past the basic ideas of Catholicism but still want the feel good of Christianity there are literally thousands of denominations. Stop hemming and hawing and just go be the protestant you want to be.

It's not that hard.

+1 Signed, A Catholic

Anonymous wrote:

My Presbyterian church has a beautiful wooden cross suspended from the ceiling, but no body.

Because the important thing is that he is risen, not that he was crucified.

+1

No idea why Catholics have to focus on him on the cross. If he was crucified and just died....well, they wouldn't be Christians, would they?

Anonymous wrote:

My Presbyterian church has a beautiful wooden cross suspended from the ceiling, but no body.

Because the important thing is that he is risen, not that he was crucified.

That's nice for you.

My Presbyterian church has a beautiful wooden cross suspended from the ceiling, but no body.

Because the important thing is that he is risen, not that he was crucified.

Catholic here, and I"m surprised at the discussion of "gory crosses." Most (not all) of the crucifixes I have seen show very little or no blood. Yes, there are nails through his hands and feet, but no blood showing. In all my years as a Catholic child I never really realized or was told the gory details associated with being crucified. I was well into adulthood before it even occurred to me.