" Catholics think they have to eat Jesus to have Him give them life and get Him inside them."
This is not true. Although the Eucharist is a privileged way, given by Christ Himself, to approach this kind of intimacy with Him, it's not the only way.
Paul teaches us that "Christ dwell(s) in your hearts through faith... through being rooted and grounded in love" (Ephesians 3:17). Spiritual Communion (when you are unable to receive the consecrated elements) is real Communion, as any Catholic should know.
Where two or three are gathered together in His name, there He is in the midst of them.
(John 14:23)
Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him."
"They have to do penance to earn forgiveness and pardon."
This also is a misconception, since no one can "earn" forgiveness. Penance (as in the requirements following a sacramental Confession) is intended to --- when applicable --- do literal repair for the damage you've done. (Stole money? Return it. Smashed his car? Repair it. Insulted your mother? Apologize. Need to get closer to Christ? Read next Sunday's gospel before Sunday) and demonstrating your changed heart. Matthew 3:8 - “Produce therefore fruit that is fitting of repentance.”
You can have forgiveness from God and still be obliged as a matter of justice to make reparation for the evil you did. A repentant inmate in prison may be forgiven by God, but still needs to serve out his sentence. The repentant criminal on the cross next to Jesus, was forgiven: but Jesus did not take him down from the cross, because he admitted he deserved it by his evil deeds.
"They pray to Mary to protect them from *Jesus, my judge*."
Once again, this is a matter of intercessory prayer. I pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy every day, asking God to grant mercy to me and to the whole world. Mary is also a member of the Communion of Saints, just as I am. Just as, I presume, you are. Like us, she, too, makes intercessory prayers.
*Jesus, my JUDGE*???? For real? What a warped and perverted view of Jesus. He is the SAVIOR of those who trust in Him, who came to seek and save the lost, a FRIEND of sinners, our elder brother"
He is also the Judge of the living and the dead.(Matthew 25:31-46) You know the Bible well enough. I'm sure you know what I'm referring to, and don't even have to look it up.
There's also this:
Acts 10:42
"And He (Jesus) ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead."
2 Corinthians 5:10
"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad."
Acts 17:31
"...because [God] has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead."
John 5:22, 27
"For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son... and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man."
So is it that the New Testament "warped and perverted" about this? Or that Catholics are "warped and perverted" because we believe the New Testament?
None of this takes away from the fact that Jesus is our Savior and Friend. In fact, that's one of the amazing paradoxes of God's Divine plan: the the Judge is also, so to speak, our Brother and Defense Attorney!
I need to think about that some more.
The Judgment seat of Christ is a judgment of our works, not for salvation. Only the saved are before the Judgment seat of Christ and that is only for rewards for works done.
Besides the prayer to which I was referring was this.......
Third Novena Prayer ( 3rd. Saturday)
O Mother of Perpetual Help, thou art the dispenser of all the gifts which God grants to us miserable sinners; and for this end He has made thee so powerful, so rich, and so bountiful, in order that thou mayest help us in our misery. Thou art the advocate of the most wretched and abandoned sinners who have recourse to thee: come to my aid, dearest Mother, for I recommend myself to thee. In thy hands I place my eternal salvation, and to thee I entrust my soul. Count me among thy most devoted servants; take me under thy protection, and it is enough for me. For, if thou protect me, dear Mother, I fear nothing; not from my sins, because thou wilt obtain for me the pardon of them; nor from the devils, because thou art more powerful than all hell together; nor even from Jesus, my judge, because by one prayer from thee He will be appeased. But one thing I fear: that in the hour of temptation I may through negligence fail to have recourse to thee and thus perish miserably. Obtain for me, therefore, the pardon of my sins, love for Jesus, final perseverance, and the grace to have recourse to thee, O Mother of Perpetual Help. 3 Hail Marys.
http://motherofperpetualhelp.blogspot.com/2007/06/three-novena-prayers.html
Fearing Jesus put in the same category as our sins and demons. Nobody needs to or ought to fear Jesus. THAT is a warped and twisted view of Christ.