Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
To all the wonderful, tolerant, open-minded liberal thinkers on this thread: if I am a hypocrite who supports an international crime ring because I am Catholic, how so you feel about Muslims?

I really am curious. I want to know whether your hatefulness is broad and diffuse or narrowly focused. Do you hate 3.5 billion people on earth, or just 1 billion?

it's not hate. It's common sense. I disapprove of anyone who supports a crime ring of any kind. Muslims who support their mosques are not indirectly sending money to ISIS. But Catholics who support their churches are sending money to the Vatican.

That depends very much on the mosque. ISIS doesn't just get money from the money tree.

In any case, I gather that basically your problem is with centralization. If there is an organization with 1000 members and 10 of them are evil, then in your view the other 990 are evil as well. But if there are 100 different loosely affiliated organizations, as long as the 10 people in your small organization aren't evil, then the devil may care about the rest.

Good to know that your hatred comes from poor logical reasoning. I mean at the end of the day you are still judging a whole group of people for the actions of a vanishingly small minority, but at least this way you may one day realize the source of your bigotry is just a result of your subpar IQ.

Anonymous wrote:
To all the wonderful, tolerant, open-minded liberal thinkers on this thread: if I am a hypocrite who supports an international crime ring because I am Catholic, how so you feel about Muslims?

I really am curious. I want to know whether your hatefulness is broad and diffuse or narrowly focused. Do you hate 3.5 billion people on earth, or just 1 billion?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
To all the wonderful, tolerant, open-minded liberal thinkers on this thread: if I am a hypocrite who supports an international crime ring because I am Catholic, how so you feel about Muslims?

I really am curious. I want to know whether your hatefulness is broad and diffuse or narrowly focused. Do you hate 3.5 billion people on earth, or just 1 billion?

it's not hate. It's common sense. I disapprove of anyone who supports a crime ring of any kind. Muslims who support their mosques are not indirectly sending money to ISIS. But Catholics who support their churches are sending money to the Vatican.

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PP here. I take the OP's post as someone who wants to return to the Church but can't seem to find her way back. Christmastime is an easy time to reapproach the faith.

despite everything she's said? Perhaps you feel that everyone who has left is looking for a way to come back. TO me it's like continuing to offer steak to someone who's made it very clear that they are a vegetarian.

No, because of everything she's said. And your point of view is quite clear, thank you.

Is there anyone you wouldn't suggest should return to the church?

I am not suggesting that Jews, Hindus, Muslims, etc. suddenly convert to Roman Catholicism (though the welcome mat would be open, of course). I am suggesting that any on-the-fence Catholics should speak with his/her priest before leaving the Church. I take OP as being on the fence, as a confirmed Catholic and with a belief in God, but who for whatever reason has doubts about Jesus.

Episcopalians, though, should definitely rejoin the Church. I mean, come on people!

Anonymous wrote:

PP here. I take the OP's post as someone who wants to return to the Church but can't seem to find her way back. Christmastime is an easy time to reapproach the faith.

despite everything she's said? Perhaps you feel that everyone who has left is looking for a way to come back. TO me it's like continuing to offer steak to someone who's made it very clear that they are a vegetarian.

No, because of everything she's said. And your point of view is quite clear, thank you.

Is there anyone you wouldn't suggest should return to the church?

I am not suggesting that Jews, Hindus, Muslims, etc. suddenly convert to Roman Catholicism (though the welcome mat would be open, of course). I am suggesting that any on-the-fence Catholics should speak with his/her priest before leaving the Church. I take OP as being on the fence, as a confirmed Catholic and with a belief in God, but who for whatever reason has doubts about Jesus.

Episcopalians, though, should definitely rejoin the Church. I mean, come on people!

Anonymous wrote:
To all the wonderful, tolerant, open-minded liberal thinkers on this thread: if I am a hypocrite who supports an international crime ring because I am Catholic, how so you feel about Muslims?

I really am curious. I want to know whether your hatefulness is broad and diffuse or narrowly focused. Do you hate 3.5 billion people on earth, or just 1 billion?

Anonymous wrote:There are many beautiful things about the Catholic church and some people are able to see them and stay with the church and not be bothered very much, if at all, by pedophilia cover-ups or anything else negative that the church has done, or will do.

These people of deep faith are hard to understand by people who seem to have lost the gift of faith, or who have shut it or thrown it away.

Perhaps if people who have given up on their faith spent more time in Church, their faith would return. Why not give it a try?

PP here. I take the OP's post as someone who wants to return to the Church but can't seem to find her way back. Christmastime is an easy time to reapproach the faith.

despite everything she's said? Perhaps you feel that everyone who has left is looking for a way to come back. TO me it's like continuing to offer steak to someone who's made it very clear that they are a vegetarian.

No, because of everything she's said. And your point of view is quite clear, thank you.

Is there anyone you wouldn't suggest should return to the church?

Anonymous wrote:
You should meet with the parish priest and discuss your doubts with him. That's part of his calling.