Interesting Pope Article

[ThaSaltCracka]

nearly all...

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nearly all...

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[img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Good to hear.

[bernie]

The klan works in the name of christianity, did you know that?

btw...I'm not a bigot against catholics, I just don't like their church. At all. I believe I've made that clear. One can follow catholic beliefs without patronizing the vatican. Got it?

Unless you think holding something/someone accountable for transgressions is bigotry.

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[HDPM]

This is a tough area because I think the Church is fair game for criticism. The problem is the criticism is sometimes seen as an attack on Catholics. Tough to balance IMO. I too have Catholic family members, but I think the Church is rotten. So where is the line as far as criticism goes? I am not sure.

[bernie]

Evidently the church is completely off limits.

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but I think the Church is rotten

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You bigot. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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[Zeno]

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. - H. L. Mencken



Of all learned men, the clegy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines as theological quacks. A large part of his professional activity, in fact, is given over to these enterprises. Doings that would cause a lawyer to be disbarred, a medical man to lose his license to practise, and even a chiroproactor, a bartender or a whore-madam to be regarded as grossly unethical are part of his daily routine and his admirers accept them as proofs of his consecration to holy works. - H.L Mencken

[TransientR]

Christopher Hitchens would probably admit he is an alcoholic, but I haven't heard anyone call him stupid.

Your rant contained no refutations of any of his points.

Frank

[TransientR]

Nice quotes!

Geez, too bad Mencken is no longer with us. But like most good writers, his good stuff is applicable in perpetuity, such is the repetitiveness of human folly.

Frank

[Gin 'n Tonic]

"He apologized to the world of science and reason by admitting that Galileo should not have been condemned by the Inquisition... ...admissions that the Roman Catholic Church has been responsible for the retarding of human development on a colossal scale."

And will continue to be so if their opposition to embryonic stem cell research continues.

Glad to see that nothing changes in 500 years.

[HDPM]

Mencken quotations always put me in a better mood.