(October 23, 2021 at 8:11 pm)Rahn127 Wrote: "Christians have always been open and inviting "
ROFL
At the point of a sword, maybe. There are many places in the world where you can be killed if you don't accept the open invitation from christans to believe as they believe.
Open and inviting. Really.
My mother and father were married in a catholic church in 1946. My father was catholic, my mother was not.
To be married in the church my mother was obliged to take instruction and to promise that any children would be brought up Catholic.
The ceremony was conducted in the vestry, the little side room where the priest dresses. My mother was not good enough to be married in front of the altar. My father was such a fucking brainwashed sheep that he tolerated the insult which was offered to both of them.
When I was about 12, at my Catholic school: The class teacher made the mistake of saying 'mixed marriage' were inferior to those where both people were catholics. He was drowned in a sea of objections. Over half of the boys in the class came from 'mixed marriages'
From the fourth century until the seventeenth century the Catholic church murdered dissidents. At some point in the middle ages they began burning them alive. Both Catholics and Protestants.
Oh, I forgot to mention the treatment of women by the Christian churches to this day. Open and inviting my arse.
