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OP here again, and what this long thread illustrates is how divisive the Catholic Church and its teachings are. Yes, all churches have this to a degree, but in my church we are encouraged to seek God in our own way. There aren't a list of rules and regs  that you MUST follow to be a good church member, so both my husband and I are comfortable being there and exposing our children to this environment.

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Well I think any religion with a deep history and specific tenets has this effect. It's just that the Catholic religion overlaps with so many others as they are also Christian. Maybe people don't have the same foundation to criticize Orthodox Judaism or the Muslim religion.[/quote]

Yes, but if you are a Christian, you are talking about only three: Catholicism, and the Greek and Russian Orthodox churches.  The rest are Protestant, and one of the main points of the Protestant Reformation was the Priesthood of All Believers.  As far as reasons for protestant faiths, it's a pretty big deal, and it means that things like the detailed catechism we all learned don't exist.[/quote]

My point was that most believers criticizing Catholics are ironically other Christians and I was theorizing that it's because Catholicism has enough overlap that a fellow Christian can say 'Yeah, I agreed with you all the way up until THIS point and then you lost me.' because they have enough background to understand the basic beliefs of Christianity. Whereas Christians don't regularly criticize, for example, Orthodox Jews or Muslims in part because they don't have as much shared reference to begin with. It's almost like the other religions are so foreign that they cannot begin to mount a fully developed critique. [/quote]

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