Catholic/Christianity question

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And yep, there are some rather very ignorant posts here. Catholics are Christians. And just out of curiosity, I actually [/strike]googled[strike] Wikipedia'ed Christian Denomination, and lo and behold, Catholicism was listed along with Protestantism and other Christian communities.

This is correct. Catholicism is a sect of Christianity. It is the earliest form of Christianity, but apart from that, it is under the same religious heading as Protestantism, methodist, etc...

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“Catholicism is NOT the same thing as Christianity.”

Yes, it IS. In fact, Catholics were the first Christians. The Roman Catholic Church existed from the time right after the death of Jesus Christ. The Bible came from the Catholic Church…not from Protestants, as the Protestants like to believe (because they ignore history that happened more than 500 years ago). The Bible already existed–Martin Luther, the father of the Protestant “Reformation”–removed 5 books from the Old Testmant. That is why there is a Catholic Bible and a non-Catholic Bible. Catholics use the original text that includes the original 5 books. Other than that, they are the same.

The Protestant “Reformation” happened 500 years ago. There were no “pro-testants” before then

This person's forgetting the history that happened thousands of years before Catholicism. Actually, the bible didn't come from Catholicism. It came from Judaism, plain and simple. When it was translated from Hebrew to Greek, the transcribers added books to the bible, and that then came to be known as the Septuagint which is used by the Greek orthodox church. When the Septuagint was translated to Latin more was added in the same way, and became known as the Vulgate. The Vulgate was translated directly to english, and became the Catholic Bible. When Luther incited the Reformation he removed those books because they were added after the fact.

Jam it back in, in the dark.