Reply #2: How can a bloodline be catholic?

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Not to be a jerk but I've always been curious as to when people refer to their religion (whatever religion) as part of their ethnicity or "blood". I mean religion is something you choose and can adopt or disavow at any point. Your ethnicity or your bloodline you cannot no matter how much you may want to.

I think that is where a lot of the issues come in for me. Personally the choices I make I accept that I may have to defend against attack and that people may or may not make the same choices. But ultimately if I don't like the heat I can choose to either stand and rationally defend that choice or disavow that choice completly if I am unable to defend it rationally.

I don't know. Just my opinion but then again I'm not a catholic basher (for the record I was raised in the church and my parents and brother are still devout).