Catholicism

[Coffee Jesus]

I don't know where your avid hate for the Church comes from. This is intended for the whole slew of you who have challenged me on this post: your entire argument is centered on sexual abuse scandals. If we go beyond that, which you all can't seem to do and call me crazy for doing, what else is there? It's like 9/11, at some point, our nation had to forgive and move beyond it all.

late 20th century: covering up child abuse, and shuffling the accused preists to other churches where they could molest yet more unsuspecting victims

early 20th century, maybe further back: imprisoning women and young girls in the "Magdele Laundries" of Ireland and elsewhere; getting their clerical outfits washed for free by their unpaid, malnourished, physically abused slaves who weren't even allowed to socialize; and putting up for adoption the babies stolen from the women who were there for premarital sex.

12th to 17th centuries: burning or lynching heretics, i.e. anyone who expressed disagreement with infallible church doctrine

...which amounts to suppression of freedom of religion and freedom of thought

15th to 16th century: The Spanish inquisition

11th to 13th century: The crusades: invading other countries and evicting or executing those who wouldn't convert