Reply #47: The Holy "See" only sees what it wants to see just like it has been doing since its inception.

[bertman]

The catholic church, like all others, is simply a mechanism for controlling people. It was devised as such by the Roman Emperor Constantine and continues in that vein to the present.

Just like every government that relies upon fear of the "other", the church could not exist and prosper without enemies to rail against. Strangely it has selected homosexuals as one of those enemies when, in fact, so many of its clergy are homosexuals.

But, never underestimate the power of the church to do exactly the opposite of what it preaches.

Thank you for speaking your mind, Nance. I agree with you totally.

P.S. What is scary as hell to me is how many catholic homosexuals there are. I know several devout catholics who turn a deaf ear when I remind them of the way their church persecutes their kind. And the lesbians who are still in the church are simply beyond belief, given the history of misogyny and anti-homosexuality of the church. Religious indoctrination is a powerful tool.