On Catholicism!

[Kyuuketsuki]

I didn't vote as you didn't have category for "who gives a fuck?"

Your wish, Sir, is my command

Me? Oh, ex-Catholic.

I presume you believed you were Christian when you were one too?

Kyu

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Frodo,

Seems to me that other Christian cults don't like Catholics because the latter claim some divine link to god, some kind of direct telephone line via the pope to the man himself, and because they were the first Christian church from which all the others appear to have sprung.

I get the very strong feeling there's a huge amount of resentment there between the various cults and that really it's all just an extension of the fact that each and every one of the silly sodding cults believes they are in some way more chosen than all the others ... that is why I say that the objective view of the atheist is more valid here, because we just look at them with the same cool, clinical POV and say, "Nope, all the same!" That and the fact that no one likes the group that claim to be founders of the whole silly sodding belief system in the first place.

You seem to be implying that I and others haven't thought about this but we have (I know I have); I've been debating various wingnuts for nearly 15 years now and this claim has come up frequently, that Catholics are anything from "not real Christian" (as you seem to) to utter evil (I mean I've even heard some whack-job claim the pope has 666 on his clothing ... I mean even if they were "evil" you'd credit them with more fucking brains than that) and I can only say that everything you say in an attempt to somehow differentiate your own cult views from those of Catholicism are (just like all the rest of the nut-jobs) nothing more than a form of special pleading.

Kyu