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In reply to the discussion: Hey Catholic Cut-n-Runners: Come Back, Now. DU, Your Country, and World Need You. [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)35. I would like to know more about whether that is a typical experience.
It's not that I think you're lying, or would say you are, because I don't know, maybe you had a very different experience. That region might be different, or that church might be different.
It's just so mind-bogglingly shocking, based on what I know about the catholic churches around here, again, by way of people I know, neighbors, co-workers, etc.
That or the people I know are all the biggest bullshitters ever, putting up a fake front for the church or something. Or, again, perhaps a regional difference.
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Hey Catholic Cut-n-Runners: Come Back, Now. DU, Your Country, and World Need You. [View all]
MannyGoldstein
Mar 2013
OP
truly this coronation of a new pope has us all a bit on edge it would seem.
Phillip McCleod
Mar 2013
#5
It's his statements, pre-employment as pope, about things like same sex marriage.
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2013
#25
Thanks Manny, we need all the liberal hands on deck, The problem appears to be
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#24
Yeah those evil nuns on their busses and catholic charities that feed the poor suck!
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#40
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer is good advice, but it is predicated on the
Egalitarian Thug
Mar 2013
#42
Jewish, which is to say agnostic with side orders of argument and pastrami.
MannyGoldstein
Mar 2013
#45
Don't worry, I'm not cutting and running... I am getting sharper elbows, though!
reformist2
Mar 2013
#46
I think it's because the media has just had wall-to-wall "the pope is important" coverage
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2013
#53