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In reply to the discussion: This is hard... [View all]Summer Hathaway
(2,770 posts)He is well aware of the sins of the church.
He is also aware that his religion is a belief held in the mind and heart, and is separate and apart from the hierarchy of 'the Church' - those who bring disgrace upon that religion through their behavior, those who enable that behavior through silence, and those who cover-up the behavior of the worst among them.
The Catholic Church, as an organization, is corrupt - and pretty much always has been. The Catholic faith, which is based upon the teachings and example of a rather extraordinary human being (divine or otherwise), is pure in its realization, and pristine in its goals.
The fact that you are incapable of discerning one from the other (the dictates of The Catholic Church v the followers of the Catholic faith) is demonstrative of your ignorance.
I am going to give you the 'benefit of the doubt', and assume that you will educate yourself as to the difference between Catholicism as a religious belief and the political agenda that has always guided the Catholic Church as what it is now and ever shall be an organization bent on political influence and the generation of financial revenue cloaked in the name of Catholicism. One clearly has nothing to do with the other.
Now that you have THAT information - information that has been available for centuries and is widely known - it's up to you what to do with that information.