So when Clinton cheated on his wife that means all democrats are wife cheaters?
Do you ever stop to actually think about your remarks or are you so wrapped up in the Christian bashing you can't see past your own nose?
Why do people toss Clinton's affair into things - just randomly out of the blue - it's been tossed into so many threads when it means nothing and has no bearing on the point or subject being had?
Since the dawn of man men and women have cheated on their spouses and partner it's *really* just a reflection of human nature more than anything else - but somehow people want to make some type of *point* by bringing up the fact that a guy cheated on his wife . . . as if it's something *new*
But we digress. No, I don't support the leaders of the Catholic Church at all. It's not the religion itself, it's basic beliefs, that are so offensive (like - believing in God, Believing that Jesus was crucified, etc - it's not these things) - it's what *people* (Like Popes throughout history and large number of leaders) it's what these people have *done* in the name of their religion that make it SO foul.
Religion would be fine - if it weren't for wretched people using it as fulcrum to do terrible things to mass numbers of people.
Wretched things done in the name of religion:
The Inquisition
Salem Witch Trials (and other witch trials throughout history)
The Children's Army
Islamic Jihad
Human Sacrifices in Burma
Heaven's Gate
The list can go on for a mile.
Religion itself is innocent and fine - Religion is dangerous and offensive when the leaders go insane and start maiming and inflicting torture and passing judgment on people simply because they don't agree or follow with them.
so, forgive me if my hangup on these offenses against humanity that have gone on since the dawn of man bar me from respecting the religious-bodies that ordain and commit them.
:shrug:
I didn't use to be like this, though. My tipping point could have happened earlier but I pin it to when I was in the foyer of my Dad's former church and I heard our church's treasurer talking about how our "nigger janitor not being able to do his job right" . . .what did he do? Well, he was born black, for one thing - so criminal, I know :roll: And he failed to vacuum the foyer carpet all in the same direction.
Yep, so atrocious, he vacuumed up and down - and then in some places he vacuumed side to side.
Wow, yeah, that really slammed the door on my religious-totter heart. Up until that comment at that point I really was troubled by my religious imbalance.
She was actually later found to be guilty of thieving money from the church - over $100,000 over a long period of time, in fact, so maybe she was one of those people who went to church to continually ease her guilty heart.
All those years being behind the scenes at the church - the church laymen never did anything 'wrong' - all the offenses that were committed were done so by the leaders. And this continues to be quite true for almost every religion that's plagued with foul entities.
So, give the leaders a pass? No
They accept and embrace their Religion's history when they decide to become a man of the cloth or what have you. It's not like they're all blissfully ignorant of their founder's aggressions.
The people, though, who go to church every Sunday (or mass, or Wednesday service) are merely satisfying a need and fulfilling a want in life.
Even my own Dad is guilty of something I consider to be absolutely unacceptable from a Minster - what is it? I'll keep that to myself. But my view doesn't leave him out of the riptide.
