RE: Damned Catholics
January 20, 2011 at 10:31 pm
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2011 at 10:37 pm by dqualk.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution....80.931921
And yes I beleive that death is not the final destiny of my life.
Padraic, it is sad that you have such little respect for so many intelligent well meaning people.
I have a book you can read too if you want to read the other side, Double Standard: Abuse Scandals and the Attack on the Catholic Church.
The Church has a policy and its a good one. Maybe you believe there is some other policy they keep hidden, or an oral policy handed down by tradition, but that would be like a conspiracy theory.
Once again many bishops and even Popes have made bad decisions, but there evil actions are not binding on the whole Church in my opinion. In the same way, when one atheist does something evil, even a really well respected atheist, I do not bind it on all atheists.
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The Orthodox church suffered terribly in the 1930s, and many of its members were killed or sent to labor camps. In the period between 1927 and 1940, the number of Orthodox Churches in the Russian Republic fell from 29,584 to fewer than 500. 1929 was a watershed year in which Soviet policy brought much new legislation in place that would form the basis for the harsh anti-religious persecution in the following decade.
And yes I beleive that death is not the final destiny of my life.
Padraic, it is sad that you have such little respect for so many intelligent well meaning people.
I have a book you can read too if you want to read the other side, Double Standard: Abuse Scandals and the Attack on the Catholic Church.
The Church has a policy and its a good one. Maybe you believe there is some other policy they keep hidden, or an oral policy handed down by tradition, but that would be like a conspiracy theory.
Once again many bishops and even Popes have made bad decisions, but there evil actions are not binding on the whole Church in my opinion. In the same way, when one atheist does something evil, even a really well respected atheist, I do not bind it on all atheists.