Yay - my husband finally left the Catholic Church!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is OP the same poster as the Catholic troll? I feel like this thread will not die and each time the troll posts are more over the top in their effort to be offensive.

+1. I posted "Please, troll, stop" above and I'm different from this PP. I repeat: nobody talks like this IRL.

For the person asking why we come back, in my case at least it's because this troll is creating a completely inaccurate perception of Catholics and religious people in general. I'm not Catholic, but I'm sick of being a bystander to the anti-Catholic bigotry here, so I've decided to do what's right and call out this obvious troll.

Fine -- your choice -- also your choice to call "bigotry" what others would call "truth" or "lies" or "opinion"

I don't know if the person speaking as an ultra-conservative Catholic is for real, but I do know there are Catholics like that, as well as people from other religions who have similar restrictive beliefs and negative attitudes about people who do not share their beliefs.

Well, I've reported that PP to the moderator and we'll find out if s/he's a troll.

[Anonymous]

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If our children expressed the Roman Catholic Catechism on any number of hot button issues such as homosexuality or abortion, they would be suspended from most top tier DC private schools.

Really? can you provide an example of that happening or any documentation from private schools indicating that expressing these points of view will result in suspension?

I think most Catholic parents teach their kids what not to say in certain places. Can you imagine a sidwell student saying that homosexual acts are intrinsically sinful or wrong, what the teacher (and then administration) would do to that child? Can you imagine the social ostracism.

Like jews in the inquisition, we practice in secret.

So you practice hating in private?

hate & hypocrisy
great combination

The Catechism teaches this -- which you call "practicing hate." Why let us practice our religion at all? When will posters like this demand to take away our tax-status and then close our churches entirely? As I said, Catholics will be hunted like dogs in the end times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is OP the same poster as the Catholic troll? I feel like this thread will not die and each time the troll posts are more over the top in their effort to be offensive.

+1. I posted "Please, troll, stop" above and I'm different from this PP. I repeat: nobody talks like this IRL.

For the person asking why we come back, in my case at least it's because this troll is creating a completely inaccurate perception of Catholics and religious people in general. I'm not Catholic, but I'm sick of being a bystander to the anti-Catholic bigotry here, so I've decided to do what's right and call out this obvious troll.

Oh, so you come to attack a true Catholic so that the anti-Catholics will not be exposed to Catholic beliefs but instead to your version of Catholic-lite?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is OP the same poster as the Catholic troll? I feel like this thread will not die and each time the troll posts are more over the top in their effort to be offensive.

+1. I posted "Please, troll, stop" above and I'm different from this PP. I repeat: nobody talks like this IRL.

For the person asking why we come back, in my case at least it's because this troll is creating a completely inaccurate perception of Catholics and religious people in general. I'm not Catholic, but I'm sick of being a bystander to the anti-Catholic bigotry here, so I've decided to do what's right and call out this obvious troll.

Oh, so you come to attack a true Catholic so that the anti-Catholics will not be exposed to Catholic beliefs but instead to your version of Catholic-lite?

Go away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is OP the same poster as the Catholic troll? I feel like this thread will not die and each time the troll posts are more over the top in their effort to be offensive.

+1. I posted "Please, troll, stop" above and I'm different from this PP. I repeat: nobody talks like this IRL.

For the person asking why we come back, in my case at least it's because this troll is creating a completely inaccurate perception of Catholics and religious people in general. I'm not Catholic, but I'm sick of being a bystander to the anti-Catholic bigotry here, so I've decided to do what's right and call out this obvious troll.

Fine -- your choice -- also your choice to call "bigotry" what others would call "truth" or "lies" or "opinion"

I don't know if the person speaking as an ultra-conservative Catholic is for real, but I do know there are Catholics like that, as well as people from other religions who have similar restrictive beliefs and negative attitudes about people who do not share their beliefs.

Well, I've reported that PP to the moderator and we'll find out if s/he's a troll.

What's the moderator going to do, check the presumed troll's baptismal certificate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
If our children expressed the Roman Catholic Catechism on any number of hot button issues such as homosexuality or abortion, they would be suspended from most top tier DC private schools.

Really? can you provide an example of that happening or any documentation from private schools indicating that expressing these points of view will result in suspension?

I think most Catholic parents teach their kids what not to say in certain places. Can you imagine a sidwell student saying that homosexual acts are intrinsically sinful or wrong, what the teacher (and then administration) would do to that child? Can you imagine the social ostracism.

Like jews in the inquisition, we practice in secret.

So you practice hating in private?

hate & hypocrisy
great combination

The Catechism teaches this -- which you call "practicing hate." Why let us practice our religion at all? When will posters like this demand to take away our tax-status and then close our churches entirely? As I said, Catholics will be hunted like dogs in the end times.

hunted like dogs
Well, dogs are pack animals. So your analogy says more about you than you probably cared to share.

What if your child were gay? You'd disown him/her for acting on it? talk about social ostracism, you hypocrite!

Or maybe you'd try "conversion therapy" instead?

And even if you live your hypocrisy in secret, it comes out in one way or another. Anyone can see the fear in you. I know I could - especially after spending the bulk of my days in Catholic school. complete brainwashing

So go away. Your cruel god is not a good god. If we're all created in HIS image (b/c he's male obviously :roll, why would HE hate his own gay children? Answer that one for me, Mother Mary.

[Anonymous]

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hunted like dogs
Well, dogs are pack animals. So your analogy says more about you than you probably cared to share.

What if your child were gay? You'd disown him/her for acting on it? talk about social ostracism, you hypocrite!

Or maybe you'd try "conversion therapy" instead?

And even if you live your hypocrisy in secret, it comes out in one way or another. Anyone can see the fear in you. I know I could - especially after spending the bulk of my days in Catholic school. complete brainwashing

So go away. Your cruel god is not a good god. If we're all created in HIS image (b/c he's male obviously :roll, why would HE hate his own gay children? Answer that one for me, Mother Mary.

God doesn't hate gays, he just doesn't approve of gay sex. Hate the sin; love the sinner. [just repeating what I've heard. no longer catholic myself]

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
hunted like dogs
Well, dogs are pack animals. So your analogy says more about you than you probably cared to share.

What if your child were gay? You'd disown him/her for acting on it? talk about social ostracism, you hypocrite!

Or maybe you'd try "conversion therapy" instead?

And even if you live your hypocrisy in secret, it comes out in one way or another. Anyone can see the fear in you. I know I could - especially after spending the bulk of my days in Catholic school. complete brainwashing

So go away. Your cruel god is not a good god. If we're all created in HIS image (b/c he's male obviously :roll, why would HE hate his own gay children? Answer that one for me, Mother Mary.

God doesn't hate gays, he just doesn't approve of gay sex. Hate the sin; love the sinner. [just repeating what I've heard. no longer catholic myself]

from one ex to another

What does that even mean?

According to this belief system,
1. God created us in his image.
2. God created gays.
3. Gays like other gays. So sex is only natural, right?

But if they have sex with each other, it's a sin.

Where's the sense? Why create a tormented soul then? And if this was God's point, how kind can God be?

It's all bullshit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
hunted like dogs
Well, dogs are pack animals. So your analogy says more about you than you probably cared to share.

What if your child were gay? You'd disown him/her for acting on it? talk about social ostracism, you hypocrite!

Or maybe you'd try "conversion therapy" instead?

And even if you live your hypocrisy in secret, it comes out in one way or another. Anyone can see the fear in you. I know I could - especially after spending the bulk of my days in Catholic school. complete brainwashing

So go away. Your cruel god is not a good god. If we're all created in HIS image (b/c he's male obviously :roll, why would HE hate his own gay children? Answer that one for me, Mother Mary.

God doesn't hate gays, he just doesn't approve of gay sex. Hate the sin; love the sinner. [just repeating what I've heard. no longer catholic myself]

from one ex to another

What does that even mean?

According to this belief system,
1. God created us in his image.
2. God created gays.
3. Gays like other gays. So sex is only natural, right?

But if they have sex with each other, it's a sin.

Where's the sense? Why create a tormented soul then? And if this was God's point, how kind can God be?

It's all bullshit.

From one ex to another --

God created blind people too. He loves them and they are allowed to have sex (provided it's not gay sex) but he can't make them see. Until they get to heaven.

God also created depressed people, but he recently gave humans the ability to invent depression medication so that these days, depressed people can lead pretty normal lives if they take their meds -- and if they are not gay.

This is what Catholics and people of some other religions are taught, but I don't believe it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
If our children expressed the Roman Catholic Catechism on any number of hot button issues such as homosexuality or abortion, they would be suspended from most top tier DC private schools.

Really? can you provide an example of that happening or any documentation from private schools indicating that expressing these points of view will result in suspension?

I think most Catholic parents teach their kids what not to say in certain places. Can you imagine a sidwell student saying that homosexual acts are intrinsically sinful or wrong, what the teacher (and then administration) would do to that child? Can you imagine the social ostracism.

Like jews in the inquisition, we practice in secret.

So you practice hating in private?

hate & hypocrisy
great combination

The Catechism teaches this -- which you call "practicing hate." Why let us practice our religion at all? When will posters like this demand to take away our tax-status and then close our churches entirely? As I said, Catholics will be hunted like dogs in the end times.

If this means forced by the IRS to pay taxes on church property because the religious exemption regulation is struck down, then maybe you're right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anybody else think the fake religious troll has struck again? I don't remember any of DCUM's professed Catholics being this hardline.

(I'm not Catholic myself.)

could be -- between the fake and the real, it's hard to tell.

I'm not Catholic, and I can tell. This has got to be fake, unless it's actual Catholic clergy posting on DCUM.

I'm Catholic and none of the priests I've known in 4 decades have ever spoken this way about Catholics or non-Catholics.

[Anonymous]

I'm a Catholic and since we got married I've been pressuring my DH to convert from being a Jew but he is being very stubborn!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a Catholic and since we got married I've been pressuring my DH to convert from being a Jew but he is being very stubborn!

Does he pressure you to convert to Judaism? Did you discuss all this before getting married?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anybody else think the fake religious troll has struck again? I don't remember any of DCUM's professed Catholics being this hardline.

(I'm not Catholic myself.)

could be -- between the fake and the real, it's hard to tell.

I'm not Catholic, and I can tell. This has got to be fake, unless it's actual Catholic clergy posting on DCUM.

I'm Catholic and none of the priests I've known in 4 decades have ever spoken this way about Catholics or non-Catholics.

not in public, anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a Catholic and since we got married I've been pressuring my DH to convert from being a Jew but he is being very stubborn!

Go away, troll.