[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Your suggestion will be taken under consideration. Please don’t be offended if I reject it out-of-hand.

[ArrogantBustard]

Cletus, your behaviour does not offend me.

It informs me as to your worth, and to the worth of your particular religious sect, whatever it may be.

[SecondAmendment]

No offense taken, I knew my post would be provocative, but it is an observation I have made through my conversion from a Catholic to a Lutheran.

Specifially:

• The Catholic church unilaterally asserts they are the only legitimate Christian Church
• Much of the Catholic Church's teachings are not grounded in scripture.
• The Church has dishonestly represented the views, teachings, and history of the Protestant churches, and especially the Lutherans
• The Church dismisses all Protestant criticisms with Ad-Homeinem attacks, never addressing the actual substance of any arguments.
• The Church has a very top down bureaucratic structure, always requiring a priest for any religious function
• The Church constantly pushes an agenda of "Social Justice", and personal sacrifice while having vast riches in the Vatican.
• The Church has actively shielded and protected priests from wrong doing instead of fully cooperating with the authorities.

This is of course not a blanket statement, there are many good Catholic lay people and Priests, but the issues I have listed are real and systematic within the Church.

Not to mention virtually all positions of the Church with the exception of Abortion and Birth Control are IDENTICAL to those of the Democrat Party (http://usccb.org).