[MasterCommie_hunter]

Tell that to the Catholic leadership. The Catholic Church had some interesting ways of torturing and burning people at the stake people for studying the Bible!(I have heard no apologies from the Vatican)

[CobaltBlue]

I don't think anybody has been tortured for reading the Bible in several centuries. If anything, some Catholics (certainly not all) are mad at the Church for having the services in the vernacular rather than Latin in order to make it more accesable. Maybe you've heard of that?

[formerDem]

"Tell that to the Catholic leadership. The Catholic Church had some interesting ways of torturing and burning people at the stake people for studying the Bible!(I have heard no apologies from the Vatican)"

MCH----There are other Catholics who post on FR who are scholars and can give you chapter and verse of apologies. I don't have my head in the sand. I am a student of the foibles, sins and hate perpetrated by people in the Catholic faith in our 2,000 year history. I have just finished reading Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain by Norman Roth. I have also read an older book, Torquemada by Sabatini and other works critical of the actions of people in the Church.

I don't have a quarrel with your questions and difficulty with Catholicism.....just the tone and underlying animosity that permeates your posts.

I wish I could remember the quote from St. Augustine.....but it has something to do with the purity of a sacrament not being diminshed by the sins of the person administering it.

If you think of truth as sunlight, it is not diminished just because we view it through a grimy window.

Pax.

I'll pray for you. I hope you will pray for me.