[sushiman]

" but with Christianity there is one unifying law--The Bible. It doesn't matter if you're Catholic, Protestant "

I went to Catholic School for 8 years ( 1958-66 ) and the only time I saw a Bible was at Mass on Sundays ! Remember we couldn't eat meat on Fridays so saved our fast food hamburgers until midnight to eat them . Like George Carlin said , and I paraphrase , " Those poor bastards still doing time in purgatory for eating a hamburger on a Friday " . 90% of the people I went to that school with are no longer Catholics . It took us a while , but we saw through the BS once we hit 7th grade .

[StolarStorm]

I'm sure the BS tag can be applied to your particular faith as well, by some.

[Future Snake Eater]

My soon-to-be wife is the exact same way. She was raised Catholic but grew very disenfranchised with the whole thing. I've been to Catholic Mass a few times, just to see what it was about (I've been to pretty much ever denomination there is), and it felt depressing.

I know a lot of Catholics were up in arms over the movie "Dogma" but there was a line in it that I saw to be true, "Catholics don't celebrate their faith, they mourn it." The same seemed to be true at a Methodist service I just went to not too long ago.

Why go to church to be depressed or to recite aphorisms time and time again? Why not actually learn what the Bible says? Why not get excited about the opportunities that lie before us as Christians?

It's not that I dislike our Catholic brothers and sisters, but I sure don't understand where they're coming from.