Why Catholics Are Right

[OnlyNatural]

This is an excerpt from a book called 'Why Catholics are Right,' saw it in the newspaper this morning. If this is the one excerpt chosen to support the book's claim, then wow... pathetic. Just pathetic.

I thought I'd let you guys take a look, perhaps pick it apart. It certainly merits that. If he thinks whining about anti-Catholic attitudes is the best defense for his faith, that's just an epic fail.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Catholi...story.html

The importance of Catholicism is that in a culture where various forms of religious and atheistic fundamentalism, crass materialism and clawing decadence eat away at civility and civilization the only permanent, consistent, and logically complete alternative is the Roman Catholic Church.

That's about the only 'evidence' given for why Catholics are right. And then the whining begins:

Anti-Catholicism attacks and criticism...These days, tragically, the Catholic clergy abuse scandal is thrown in somewhere [Is he saying the tragedy is that people keep harping on it??]. It has to be discussed, but it has to be discussed honestly and accurately. The rest of the punches thrown at the Catholic body? The Church was nasty to Galileo, the Church tried to convert Muslims and the Crusades were horrible, Hitler was a Catholic and the Pope was a Nazi, the Inquisition slaughtered millions of people, the Church is rich and does nothing for the poor, children were abused and the Vatican knew about it all and did nothing, celibacy leads to perversion, Catholics worship statues, Catholics believe the Pope is infallible and can never do anything wrong, and so on and so on and so on.

It's all nonsense -yet it's nonsense that is given a veneer of credibility by thinking people who shape opinion, which, again, makes the Church unique in the 21st century as a victim institution.

And this last quote, below, is just priceless. I can't believe he thinks the two situations are equal. By desecrating a Holocaust memorial, you're disrespecting millions of actual innocent lives lost. But by desecrating some communion wafers? You're disrespecting an entity that almost certainly doesn't exist except in your collective delusions! Tragic real-life facts are NOT the same as personal beliefs that are unsupported by evidence, no matter how deeply they are held.

"As Catholics, we believe the host is the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ. Witnessing the desecration of the host [on YouTube] causes anguish to Catholics all over the world. In the past, YouTube has removed videos offensive to Jews and members of other religions, including one showing a teenager urinating on a Holocaust memorial. Why can't Catholics be afforded the same respect for our deeply held beliefs?"