How can you base a whole entire religion based on a few people though? Do you notice how people stereotype them the same exact way everytime they are mentioned? I can be as sensitive as I Goddamn want about this subject because it is something that is brought up all the time around here and it really pisses me off when someone mentions it. You just mentioned it. Have you read my previous posts? I don't appreciate it being brought up or especially generalized into the same stereotypes over and over again. I have known my friend for 10 years and he really isn't anything like these "experiences" people describe. Just stop bringing it up. It's that simple!
Shoot me your address so I can send you a midol & a box of tampons.
First of all, people have been making jokes about religion for eons. SMART people realize that stereotypes of all kinds are gneralizations, and not 100% true. You CAN be as sensitive as you want, but ragging incessantly in this forum like a whiney bitch will not be tolerated. Be pissed off, and if you think I, or anyone else here is going to stop talking about something because it pisses you off, or makes you angry, you're DEAD wrong. Your point of view isn't the only one that exists, and neither is mine. If you can't handle that, find yourself a dark corner and bleed yourself out. I'll take the moderator badge off right here, right now, and NOT politely tell you to fuck off, & take your pathetic shit like this to some other forum where everything is perfect, & everyone worships your every word & desire. IT'S
THAT SIMPLE!
Same, although I'm not anti catholic. I am however anti any part of their governence and members who are as you mentioned above. Whats the best way to put this...
I'm not against the system of religion that is Catholism, I'm against some of the so called "practitioners" who twist things to suit. I've met some very clued up catholic priests, who while I don't support them in a purely religious sense, do hold a moral ground which I absolutely respect.
Like any religion, there's the religion, and then there's the people who "practice" it.
VERY true, but the problem with pedophiles in the Catholic church wasn't just a couple of "bad eggs", it is/was horribly widespread, and the church did NOTHING to stop it, and actually tried to sweep it under the carpet. Men of the cloth are held to higher standards than the typical person. IMO,it's an abuse of power, add the fact that it involves young impressionable kids, and it becomes (once again, IMO) absofuckinglutely unforgivable.....
it aint just catholics though, the worst offenders - here in aus that we know about at least - are the anglicans, which the majority of our conservative government are made up of. i remember once though someone put forth a pedophilia claim against a politician and it got covered straight up, and she got ridiculed for it instead of it being investigated.. hows that for justice..
my ex - the american - is from a baptist family, and what i thought was amusing was because i am catholic (though non-practising but i didnt tell them that), i got called a 'non-believer' by my ex's pastor and he even got sent letters warning him against being with someone outside of their church.. get..stuffed..
Which is why I'm actually opposed to orginized religions. Fanatics, whether they be Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, etc etc are a vile lot, and I have NO use for them. Their way is NOT the only way, and in the end, I think a lot of people will be surprised.....(no, that is NOT a clandestine Catholic priest joke waiting to be hatched)
J-Dubya
