No, because you're jumping to the conclusion that being Catholic means you actively support the institution. I gave an example of a Catholic that actively chose not to support the institution. Going to church doesn't mean you support the institution, preaching or practicing your faith doesn't mean you support it. I'm sure there are plenty of Catholics that remain faithful yet still actively avoid supporting that institution. You're just assuming they don't exist. So being catholic is not an action that perpetuates atrocities, it's just assumed.



Knowing that difference doesn't change the fact that you don't care enough about either sect to find their differences significant in any kind of way.


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People just assume sex scandal means right wing.

Explain Trump. Even better, explain Iran.

Open degenerates might win for a season, but eventually there is a brutal backlash by the private degenerates, and open degeneracy is annihilated for a season.

Kind of like Iran until xenophobic fear mongering flooded their culture. It all seems to be going good until it goes bad.

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Interesting debate about Catholics that I'd like to contribute to if I may:-

i) somebody wrote as if Catholics and Christians were two different religious groups, but surely Catholics are just one sub-division of the Christian faiths?

ii) What makes Catholics different? someone asked. Mainly, it's because they believe that in a Mass there is a literal physical miracle taking place: wine really does become the blood of Christ. Most other faiths which go through that ritual concede that it's just a metaphor.

iii) Lucem is right to point out all the different gradings of Catholics. Some, for instance, just put "Catholic" on a questionaire and never go into a church. In my admittedly-skewed experience, there are a lot of these lazy, lapsed, unaffiliated Catholics around.

iv) I was brought up Catholic: indoctrination at school and Mass every Sunday until age 15. In all that time I never heard a hint of a whisper of a rumour that priests were anything other than men of good conscience. So that's another group of Catholics to add to Lucem's list of divisions, albeit a group that only existed in the past: innocent Catholics who knew nothing about sex scandals until the first one broke in modern times, whenever that was.

v)
^ I agree with this completely: you have to be outside a faith to get a clear perspective on its concepts - the same way you can't understand a chess game if you're down there at pawn level; you have to get some distance to understand what's going on.

vi) Most people know that story about eating an apple from the Tree of Knowledge and getting booted out of Paradise. What's that about? Catholicism is based on faith (see item (ii) above): too much knowledge, too much science, and you'll lose your faith. That's why that story gets promoted - and anyone who abdicates their reason in favour of a system that denies rational evidence is making a very foolish mistake imo.

vii) Today the apple of knowledge includes a pip that's particularly hard to swallow - the fact that for decades the Catholic hierachy has been enabling and abetting sex abuse. So, yeah, Frownland's dismissal of today's Catholics is in many ways justified: with a stain like that on the church, why maintain any loyalty to it at all?

Finally, abuse in the Catholic Church is currently hitting the headlines, but I suspect the turn of other faiths may come too. After all, in the UK, that cultural flagship, the BBC has been rocked with sex scandals in recent years, from Rolf Harris to Top Of The Pops. Surely that more than anything justifies the outraged cry, Is nothing sacred?! :yikes:

So whats our excuse? :(

You rang?

What are you on about? My point had nothing to do with demonizing it and everything to do using your brain to think, “hey this story isnt believable and there is no evidence to support these claims”. Every religious person is capable of doing this which they demonstrate by rejecting the claims of every other religion that isnt their own.

I also dont think faith makes people easier to take advantage of but i do “agree” it gives them the strength to grt through hardship. However this strength actually takes away from their humanity. Look at thr way AA pushes god. Many recovered addicts end up believing they couldnt do it with out accepting jesus which is total **** because christianity is a gigantic work of fixtion and all those people had the atrength to do it on their own. Instead of being proud of themselves for their accomplishments they end up grateful for the big man. I think its pretty easy to make a case against calling this strength but on a basic level i understand the point youre making.

While you guys were debating religion, I was watching Predator 2 with my dog