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In reply to the discussion: Do you know why Catholics put money in the collection plate at Sunday mass? [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)where people were going to be executed. There was live feed on the ten o'clock news. There were always two groups, the Catholics praying for a stay or their souls.
And the other group jeering at them and screaming for the death of the inmate. They were not family in the crowd, just loud mouths who wanted God to smite that sinner.
It was a sight on the evening news when I was a teen and in my twenties that I never got used to seeing. I was in wonder of the Catholics who were against the death penalty and stood there quietly taking the verbal abuse of the mob on the other side.
I never wanted to be Catholic but they were a mystery to me. Seeing thr, on those hot summer nights impressed me. There was a silent strength in them.
This newer conservative type of thing, the real paleolithic types like the Falwells, Bennetts, etc. - they made people hate each other for money and power.