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I just don't like they way the Vatican believes in evolution when it's completely unbiblical.
If they deny Genesis, then they deny all of Jesus' ancestors, God's creation and actually call Jesus a liar.
Read Mark 10:6

all the Old Testament priest were married, heck some had multiple wives/concubines),

I just don't understand why Catholics are required to practice things that are not supported biblically

Even though many of them were married and some may have had multiple wives, it still didn't mean that marrying two people was right, Polygomy is and always was wrong, just wanted to make that clear.

The Torah (the five books of Moses, a portion of what Christians consider the Old Testament) includes a few specific regulations on the practice of polygamy, such as Exodus 21:10, which states that multiple marriages are not to diminish the status of the first wife; Deuteronomy 21:15-17, which states that a man must award the inheritance due to a first-born son to the son who was actually born first, even if he hates that son's mother and likes another wife more;[22] and Deuteronomy 17:17, which states that the king shall not have too many wives.[23] One source of polygamy was the practice of levirate marriage, wherein a man was required to marry and support his deceased brother's widow.

In the modern day, Rabbinic Judaism has essentially outlawed polygamy. Ashkenazi Jews have followed Rabbenu Gershom's ban since the 11th century. Some Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews (particularly those from Yemen and Iran, where polygamy is a social norm) discontinued polygamy much more recently, as they emigrated to countries where it was forbidden. The State of Israel has forbidden polygamous marriages, but instituted provisions for existing polygamous families immigrating from countries where the practice was legal.

Christianity
Saint Augustine saw a conflict with Old Testament polygamy, and wrote about it in The Good of Marriage (chapter 15, paragraph 17), where he stated that though it "was lawful among the ancient fathers: whether it be lawful now also, I would not hastily pronounce. For there is not now necessity of begetting children, as there then was, when, even when wives bear children, it was allowed, in order to a more numerous posterity, to marry other wives in addition, which now is certainly not lawful." He declined to judge the patriarchs, but did not deduce from their practice the ongoing acceptability of polygamy. In another place, he wrote, "Now indeed in our time, and in keeping with Roman custom, it is no longer allowed to take another wife, so as to have more than one wife living [emphasis added]."

Periodically, Christian reform movements that have aimed at rebuilding Christian doctrine based on the Bible alone (sola scriptura) have at least temporarily accepted polygamy as a Biblical practice. For example, during the Protestant Reformation, in a document referred to simply as "Der Beichtrat" ( or "The Confessional Advice" ), [5] Martin Luther granted the Landgrave Philip of Hesse, who, for many years, had been living "constantly in a state of adultery and fornication,"[6] a dispensation to take a second wife. The double marriage was to be done in secret however, to avoid public scandal.[7] . Some fifteen years earlier, in a letter to the Saxon Chancellor Gregor Brück, Luther stated that he could not "forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture." "Ego sane fateor, me non posse prohibere, si quis plures velit uxores ducere, nec repugnat sacris literis." [8]

"On February 14, 1650, the parliament at Nürnberg decreed that because so many men were killed during the Thirty Years’ War, the churches for the following ten years could not admit any man under the age of 60 into a monastery. Priests and ministers not bound by any monastery were allowed to marry. Lastly, the decree stated that every man was allowed to marry up to ten women. The men were admonished to behave honorably, provide for their wives properly, and prevent animosity among them." Larry O. Jensen, A Genealogical Handbook of German Research (Rev. Ed., 1980) p. 59 [24].

The modern trend towards frequent divorce and remarriage is sometimes referred to by conservative Christians as 'serial polygamy'. In contrast, sociologists and anthropologists refer to this as 'serial monogamy', since it is a series of monogamous (i.e. not polygamous) relationships. [9]. [25]

And I've read Genesis many times and it still doesn't make sense to me. Genesis 1 and 2 seem to contradict each other on a few points. In this regard, the bible seems to call itself a liar.

Well, my mom said that we should respect Jews because they were Gods chosen people... and so they were somewhat superior to us.. though they'd be ideal if only they'd believe in jesus.

Mom said catholics are nice people, who think some weird things, but sine we all worship the same God.. they're ok but misguided.

In the same conversation she said, that you really need to watch out for the people who think that God is in everything... like trees and rocks... ;)

I don't understand how so many religions (catholic and christain most of all) can worship the same god and still have extream disagreements about it.

Catholics ARE Christians. You're referring to the argument between Catholics and Protestants. Any religion that holds Christ as it's savior is a Christian religion.

Because Catholics don't ramble on and on and on in "Bible Speak"
when they talk about their religion to "outsiders".

I just don't understand why Catholics are required to practice things that are not supported biblically. Such as celibacy for priest ( all the Old Testament priest were married, heck some had multiple wives/concubines), worship of Mary, confession to a priest, etc.

We got into a discussion of how Church of Christ people think they're the ONLY ones going to heaven. That turns a lot of other Christians off from the Church of Christ denomination. However, those other Christians believe that Christianity (or Jesus, which is pretty much Christianity) itself is the only way to salvation (which means everybody else is going to hell). Muslims believe that about their own religion