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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not Catholic, but I would guess that many Catholics see the church, flawed as it may be, as the way to God. [/quote]

Even so, it wouldn't mean that the Catholic church is the only way to God.[/quote]

If you are Catholic, then by definition it is.[/quote]

Not really --  people leave the Catholic church to follow other paths all the time.  Some people stay in the Catholic church despite the pedophilia scandals because they feel at home there and because they have found ways to overlook the scandals and justify their position. [/quote]

If pedophilia (but really more often like whatever that similar abuse is called when applied to adolescents), then we should also be getting kids out of organized sports and public schools too. Those are supposed to be safe havens for children too, and were often a means for getting/keeping them off the street. Hypocrites are everywhere you look.[/quote]
+1. Do we give up our citizenship because of the United States’ genocide against the Native Americans? Or the enslavement of Africans?  Or more recently the immoral wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc. that led to millions of deaths of innocents?  No.  You work to repair and reform what went wrong.  People are flawed, sometimes immensely so.[/quote]

This is a terrible comparison -- leaving a country vs leaving a church.  It's incredibly simple to leave a church and find another, very similar one, without uprooting yourself.

In both cases , you can continue to work to reform the offending institution.[/quote]

NP. For some people, church is very important. [/quote]

These people can belong to a church that is not as corrupt as the Roman Catholic Church is known to be.[/quote]

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