Reply #5: Well, we do read the bible in Catholic school

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Having been educated via one myself.

Since Catholics are not schooled to be evangelical (at least in my experience; although the social justice wing of the church does encourage activism) I doubt many of us are "challenging" other Christians on a regular basis.

Sorry you have that opinion of us based on your experience with Catholicism, but, I assure you, many, many of us do not fall in that category.

Actually, I have to laugh at non-Catholics who try to tell me the "meaning" of the Book of Revelations. (I've heard the same stuff from Catholics, too, in all fairness.) I've read Revelations and I defy anyone to make head nor tail of that thing. The best theory I've ever heard came from a Catholic priest: Revelations is actually written in a kind of code, to comfort the persecuted Christians of Nero's time.