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Originally Posted by InChiefsHell
I can't believe all the anti-Catholic vitriol on the internet. Every forum I come to it eventually rears it's ugly head. I mean, people REVEL in their hatred of the Church, and most of those people don't really understand what the Church really believes and teaches. They simply gobble up whatever some Fundy tells them about the evils of the Church. The fact that the Church has done herself some bad damage in the past of course does not help it. But what I find interesting is that we (Yup, evil Catholic checking in) have had bad bishops, priests and ayuh, even Popes, yet the Church herself survives. Why? Because the Church as an institution is right. It's some of the people who run it who are fallible. Quit crapping on the Church. Her history is recognized and acknowleged by her and her members. The wrongs of the past will never go away, but neither will the righteousness of the Church itself. Again, hate it all you want, but if the church falls, back up and run...
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First off the issues are with the institution and its leaders...not lay people. Just because your church and leaders are corrupt, no one is saying that you are a "evil Catholic", only you are. The problem I see is that you have not lived long enough, researched enough, expierenced enough to get a good feel of what the Catholic church has been about thru out its history. Just for the record, in all the industrailized nations, church attendance is steadily decreasing and many churches are being closed. Again as I stated in post #155, what I dont understand is that the Catholic churches historical and current atrocities are justified by many its followers, by trying to compare it to something else thats possibly corrupt. I suppose its a physcological form of being in denial.