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On a personal note, I am Catholic. I loved going to mass.
I can't bring myself to really celebrate as a Catholic anymore, and I certainly have stopped all monetary donations to the Church. I just can't accept that my money would go towards the comfortable lifestyle of a child molester, or that it might be used to fund hateful anti-gay-marriage propaganda. That's not what I believe, and I just can't support it. I look forward to the day when the Catholic church has purged itself of their corruption, but I think that day is a long way off. The sad thing is that, no matter the religious institution, it is populated with human beings and is thus utterly corruptible at every level. I think the first step towards a "clean" church is transparency. Complete and total transparency. |
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12 years catholic schooling.
Cousin was (deceased) a priest and a cousin who's a nun. Was an (unmolested) alter boy from grade 2 to 12. When I was in 8th grade we had a priest in his early 20's excommunicated for nailing women after weddings he presided over. No, he wasn't perfect. Yes, he sometimes left the wine unattended when we did funerals. Yes, catholic mass wine tastes like the urine of diseased African children.
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02-11-2013, 10:50 AM | #8 |
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Explain.
Because you compared voluntary donations to a tax-exempt religious group that I have zero control or influence over to a non-voluntary taxing to a democratically elected government for which I am given the ability to vote for both elected officials and policy at the city, county, state, and federal levels. Your analogy is shit. |
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Apparently just being against it makes you hateful...
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