(June 12, 2014 at 3:38 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: I'm still suffering in the sense that, I know an organisation as heartless and corrupt as the Catholic Church exists. And people sincerely believe they are a force for good and are actively supporting them.
They've been abusing and neglecting children for thousands of years before I was born.
And they'll be abusing and neglecting children for thousands of years after I die.
Its a burden that only brain damage and/or death will lift.
I don't have any problems. I decided at age 7 that there was something seriously wrong with the crap the Catholic Church were teaching. I was physically abused by nuns, a leather strap across the hands for a minor misdemeanour followed by another belting for bad handwriting after being hit the first time. The nuns told not to play with protestants, as they were all going to go hell when they died. Strange my best friend Derek was a protestant and he was a good guy. We failed to go to Sunday school one day, we were found playing nearby and dragged into to church and ridiculed for having dirty hands on a Sunday and more violence followed. My mother conceived twins at a time she should not have, due to Church ban on contraception she lost them through miscarriage, it broke her heart. I have since those days had nothing to do with religion and came to the conclusion very early in life there is no god. As I am now old I can only say my non belief in a supernatural being is stronger than ever.
