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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I agree that the Catholics are just anti-women--and the anti-abortion thing is untenable.[/quote]

You obviously have no real understanding of the Catholic faith. [/quote]

In fact, in Europe at least, predominantly Catholic countries have much higher participation by women in the workplace than in predominately Protestant ones.    Women also are more likely to go into traditional male fields like engineering.[/quote]

What European countries are still practicing AND Catholic? Portugal? Malta? Certainly not France, and there's probably more practicing Muslims in Spain than Catholics (as in attend some service 1x a week at the least.)

And yeah, when I think Catholic, I think of my former college roommate who no longer considers me a friend because I'm now a Democrat, is rabidly against gay marriage and abortion, insists his wife (I think he truly believes this) stay at home and have kid after kid despite having a professional degree, and was, overall, an asshole to me and my wife when we tried to hang out after college graduation. I dislike the idea of rabid Republicans dominating the church and my fellow parishioners even more than the idea of rabid Democrats.

Our experience with St. B (Springfield VA) wasn't the greatest either, everyone just seemed in a hurry to get out once Mass was over. Not a huge fan of the "Oh yeah, you're not cool enough to share the Eucharist" thing, either, or the "agree with everything we say or you're a fake Cafeteria Catholic" thing.

Oh yeah, and the denial of Communion to politicians with the "wrong" views (it seems having abhorrent social justice views is A-OK, but being pro-choice is enough to deny communion.)

And I guess not allowing altar girls is A-OK if you're in Northern VA. Yes, men and women are different. Now explain why this means a teenage girl can't wear a white robe and light some candles at the start of Mass. [/quote]

Maybe your friends dropped you not because of your style of Catholicism, but because you just sound like a rabidly angry, sputtering lunatic.[/quote]

Let's boil down my diatribe, and remove the bits about my friend.

1. Closed Eucharist (i.e. you're not Catholic, no Eucharist for you)
2. No altar girls, much less no married/female priests 
3. Denial of Communion to pro-choice politicians, but no similar denial to those with horrible records on social justice
4. The allegations of "cafeteria Catholic" against those who do not believe the entire doctrine (but most often laity who use birth control or don't think abortion needs to be outlawed)

These are issues I have with the Roman Catholic Church.

FWIW, the thread turned into a discussion of Catholicism when some Catholics came in and asserted that OP needed to become Catholic. [/quote]

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