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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I won’t read all the pages.

I am a Jew who grew up surrounded by Catholics.  Through their church, many of them found ways to be great people: kind, charitable, thoughtful, community oriented… that is all good.  And the Catholic Church still runs a lot of programs that help people of all faiths.

I’d focus on that and not the admittedly awful bits.  Find friends in church who want to use their faith to make lives better.  You can find it.

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So if someone in your community was molesting kids but also raised a lot of money for Children’s Hospital would you still support them? The good doesn’t outweigh the bad.[/quote]

I think a better question is:  If you learned that several doctors in your state were caught in fraud, and the state medical board didn’t take their licenses away, but just let him move on to another hospital:  would you still take your sick self or sick child to a doctor who is licensed in that state?  What if you know that they pay dues to the AMA that lobbies for causes you don’t personally believe in?  
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+1. This is the better analogy. Obviously no one in their right mind is taking their kids to a doctor who molested kids, or themselves to a parish where a priest was credibly accused. The question is whether you lose all faith in the system and refuse to go to any doctor / priest. I am not Catholic either but it seems to me there's a difference between questioning Catholic tenets and being outraged at the known abuses in the church. OP has expressed the former but a lot of people are focusing on the latter. They aren't necessarily the same and the solutions aren't the same. If it's the abuses that are the problem, you can work to expose and ameliorate them. If it's the foundation of the religion that's the problem, you have to figure out what you can and can't live with.

I'm Jewish and I don't keep kosher or believe in the literalness of the Bible. I still make Shabbat on Fridays, strictly keep the High Holidays and Passover, consider myself a Jew. That's not unusual for Jews, there's a very wide spectrum. If my rabbi were credibly accused of something awful I might switch synagogues but it wouldn't shake my faith in Judaism as a religion or way of life. They're different.[/quote]

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