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You’ve posted this a million times over the past few days. People have rebutted your myopia and hate a million times over the last few days. Pointing out, for example, that you can effect change better by working from within rather than spewing hate anonymously from your keyboard. Or that they don’t want to defund the hospitals.

We get it, your post above tries to justify your [b]blind hatred[/b] for Catholics by [b]claiming that any Catholic who stays is supporting pervert priests[/b].  You’re drooling over your dream that the Catholic Church mignt be annihilated. We all know that’s not going to happen.

Isn’t it time to stop? We see through you.[/quote]

I am not the poster you are replying to, but just in case there is any doubt on your statement in bold that someone is "claiming that any Catholic who stays is supporting pervert priests":

In my opinion, any Catholic who stays is supporting pervert priests.  So you are correct.

I do hate what the Church has done here.  But it is not blind.  My eyes are wide open.[/quote]

+1.

I agree. You stay, you give them money, you enable them to continue. The money still pays for these people to live and retire in solitude. If you really wanted them to change, stop giving them your money and tell them to release the accused to law enforcement for charges. Tell them to take them off of the payrolls/retirement. Tell them to punish the perverts.

But the reality is: that's not happening in this country. There will be no reparations. Your leaders aren't doing that: they're saying "I'm sorry, it was long ago in the past, please forgive us." And you're still staying. And you're still giving them money. And they're still doing it: Latin/South American has the highest concentration of Catholics and the scandals don't appear on our news feeds. But I'm sure they still happen.

The system is broken. It's been broken for a long time. We're seeing fewer instances now, but it doesn't mean that your donations are going to good works. Your donations are still going to the feeding, the housing, the clothing of retired perverts. So you have implicitly forgiven them and that's what we say you're supporting the perverts. And when it happens again, you will still be a staunch Catholic, and you will still give them your soul.

And that's you. As a former Catholic, it's not me. I cannot abide risking my soul to that kind of damnation. I sleep better at night now too, knowing that I don't support that. 
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I can hear the former Catholic bitterness in your heart.  It is sad to hear.  As a practicing Catholic I sleep well at night.  The men of the Church are not my faith.  My faith is in my heart, how I live my life, how I interact with God, how I pray to Mary, how how I treat others and how I raise my children.  You can't take that from me, nor can a priest or even the Pope.  If every priest is gone I will still be a proud and loving Catholic.  The layity will correct this, like we have done in the past and will continue to do.  [/quote]

NP. Growing up I always thought my family was a regular crazy Irish Catholic family. All the stories from my parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents were a joke: the sisters or brothers beating you in school, getting told you were going to hell, being called a whore by the sisters for wearing a skirt above your knees, giving your grocery money to the collection plate, being mentally ill, having a substance abuse problems. All of that was normalized. Now I'm dealing with elderly parents with PTSD. I always thought my family's mental health was because we got bad Irish genes, but now I think it might be the culture of dysfunction and abuse, much of it either perpetrated or allowed by The Church, that caused those mental health and substance issues. I don't actually know where I'm going with this, but I wish the people who stay had more love and empathy for the suffering.[/quote]

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