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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So....it was too....much fun?[/quote]

Eh, I don't know. I'm Catholic and I really don't like the arm-waving, praise music kind of thing.  [b]It feels so disingenuous and forced to me.[/b]  Not saying that it is those things, but that's how it feels to me and it makes me uncomfortable.  I like the ritual of mass, and depending on the parish and the priest, the homily and music choices can bring levity or a celebratory feel without feeling too touchy feely for my taste.[/quote]

This from a person practicing a religion where people prostrate themselves before relics such as St. Catherine's preserved HEAD (yes, ma'am, ever been to Sienna?), self-flagellate, crawl up steps on their knees (google Scala Sanctum), not to mention practice EXORCISMS.

So I suppose Catholics should know some "disingenuous and forced" when they see it then?

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Oh yes, American Catholics are engaged in all of these practices.   :roll:

If you think it makes you sound intelligent to pick out the fringe practices of a religion to insult the whole, it doesn't.  Just FYI.[/quote]

The point is you priggishly distinguish yourself as a Catholic separate in some way from religious practices (singing and swaying, the horror) you deride as "disingenuous and forced," when there are plenty of Catholic practices (whether you participate in them or not) that strike many people as more out there than singing and waving ones hands.

And oh the irony; just because American Catholics don't commonly practice ROMAN Catholicism as those in, for instance, ROME do (relics, scala sanctum, etc) doesn't make those any less Catholic practices! They really aren't all that fringe if you're familiar with Catholic practice world wide.

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You are picking and choosing which of my words to focus your vitriol on for reasons I don't know.  I plainly stated it was a personal preference/feeling and never used the word horror, for pity's sake.  You have a Catholic-bashing agenda, plain and simple.[/quote]

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