What have the Roman Catholics ever done for us?

Question

Besides the science of optics, astronomy, the modern calendar, astrophysics, the Big Bang theory, the first scientific maps, stratigraphy, the background that led to Darwin's discoveries, study of genetics, theology, great philosophers, the principle that human life has intrinsic value, have free will and the principle of non-contradiction, creating the university system, founding the Universities of Bologna, Paris, Oxford, Salerno, Vicenza, Cambridge, Salamanca, Padua, Naples and Vercelli, amongst many others, developing the grammar school system, being the first to apply the use of the printing press, educating 50 million people around the world in Catholic schools today, shaping the greatest art and architecture such as the basillicas of Ancient Rome, the Sistine Chapel, inventing realism in painting which inspired three dimensional art and drama, one-point linear perspective, and funding the great Renaissance painters such as da Vinci, Raphael, Caravaggio, Michelangelo and Bernini, and the architectural genres of Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque. producing the first systematic bodies of laws that shaped the legal system of Europe, founding the first law schools and the legal profession and the concept of corporate personality, developing legal principles such as "good faith", reciprocity of rights, equality before the law, international law, trial by jury, habeas corpus, and the obligation to prove an offence beyond a reasonable doubt, spreading the Latin alphabet and literacy throughout the world, great work of literature such as the Divine Comedy, the Song of My Lord and the Song of Roland, founding crystallography, the first schools for the blind and the braille system, the western tradition of music, musical notation, inventing the hymn, the oratorio, the opera, the symphony and the string quartet, being the patrons for the works of Haydn, Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven and Mahler, and pioneering women's right with women like St. Hilda, Blessed Hildegard von Bingen, Empress Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Mary Tudor, Trotula of Salerno, Dorotea Bucca, Elena Lucrezia Piscopia and Maria Agnesi...

Besides all that, WHAT have the Roman Catholics ever done for us?!

Answer 1

Then tell my why Copernicus had a problem with the Catholic Church--and who was proven right all along.

Answer 2

roman catholicism gives us the Bible, the protestants came from the roman catholicism, they took the Bible from the catholicism and they edited the bible with different words in order not to be so catholic, for example catholic versions use bishop and others just say old man, they say it's the same but many protestant churches don't have bishops, they have just pastors and the pastors in the Bible are leaders ok but in specific pastors as leaders of the early churches, I don't find the word pastor but rather we can find deacon and bishop

Answer 3

Bravo!



Yes, and Protestants have killed plenty of us, but since that was 500 years ago, we've moved on. Does Jesus approve of you holding a grudge? I thought he was about forgiveness? Maybe not for some Protestants.

Answer 4

The university system is actually founded on the earlier Academy of Athens.

Mahler was Jewish but was forced to convert because of fears of anti-Semitism.



You try to attribute the works of individual Roman Catholics to some sort of collective "force". Almost all of these are individual forces which have little to do with the religion itself except as a potential inspiration for their work.

Answer 5

Declared Christianity to be the only legal cult of the Empire, then spent 1500 years burning books, burning "witches," crusades, torturing Jews and Pagans, Inquisitions, suppressing science, set back civilization by at least a millennium, continues to rape children, lie about condoms and AIDS, suppress stem cell research, lie about a "son of god"...



Catholic Church: The reason the western world is so screwed up.

Answer 6

Messed up the world's understanding of true Christianity by trying to create a universal system of belief dictated by a Pope who pretends to be God when he is only and extension of a fallen Roman empire. Mixed paganism and original Christianity and confused the entire world with idolatry, false dates for holidays, and rituals that are meaningless to true Christians. Then there is the issue of the crusades and the Spanish Inquisition for which the Catholic church has full ownership.

Answer 7

Well...besides all THAT...they allow God to use the priests and bishops to transform Himself into the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ in communion everyday, for our physical and spiritual nourishment.



And they provide for us a time tested, 2000 year old theology that stands on the foundation of the rock Christ built the Church on, rather than the shaky foundation of man's personal interpretation of Scripture (see: all Protestant denominations). They give us a Church to depend on, one that is divinely guided by the Holy Spirit.



Oh...and the New Testament. They wrote that. ;)

Answer 8

They have put a heavy yoke on all their members by forcing them to follow what they teach instead of following Jesus and His Truth!

Answer 9

They help keep therapists employed by providing them with many sexually abused young boys and men who need therapy.

Answer 10

Raped kids. Burned people as witches. Didn't accept that the earth rotates around the Sun until 1992. Preaches about giving to poor yet is locked up in multi-billion euro Vatican city with its pope and his golden fu*king staff.



Also, told us bullshit about imaginary man in sky.

Answer 11

hate to break it to you but a few of those notables you noted were burnt at the stake as heretics

Answer 12

Spot on! I am a Catholic Atheist.

Answer 13

You forgot to mention the priest molesting children and wrecking their lives forever.