Reply #25: one out of seven humans is a Roman Catholic [View All]

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and many don't suck at all.

The Catholic Church is a mixed bag of bad and good, the good being social concerns and dislike of the death penalty, and the bad being the subject for some other time.

My beef is that most Christians are--like most major religions--completely unwilling to accept responsibility for actions justified or supported by their faith. Hitler used Christianity often in his speeches to proclaim its necessity in culture, and his hatred of Communism was fueled by his hatred of Atheism.

Those things on the wings of Luftwaffe planes were crosses, and it IS that cross. It's galling how faith blinds so many to completely absolve themselves of responsibility and glorify their feeling of specialness, whereas infidels and heretics must be responsible for their every action.

This was not meant to slag Catholics, but the monarchic assholes of Opus Dei aren't just some kind of weird aberration, they spring from the heart and soul of the dark part of the faith. It's a bummer to the nice folk who believe, but it's true.

More than anything else, most religions glorify the dislike of thinking, demanding answers and obedience with their "faith". This is backwards. Sure, people have a right to seek solace, but they don't have a right to be above questioning for their actions or the actions of others within their political group, and religions are inherently political organizations. Franco was a Catholic. Mussolini was a Catholic too, and even petitioned the Pope to excommunicate Hitler in 1938, but the Pope refused.

If you take the good, you have to take the bad.

Hey, Tim McVeigh asked for--and received--last rites, so he died a good Catholic boy too...