[NittanyLion]

I don't act like slavery never existed. I don't promote teachings that condones things like slavery. I don't act surprised when there is a reaction to the memory of slavery.

I don't act like the RC Church never killed people. I don't promote those actions, and I'm not acting surprised that they are remembered.

That said, what does surprise me is that people like yourself use ancient history to damn the current RC Church, when clearly Catholics alive today had nothing to do with those events. It's no different than the race baiters who use slavery to condemn the US in its current form - do you promote their actions?

[safisoft]

I don't act like the RC Church never killed people.

Really? Then are you ready to repudiate the men who did? Their names have popped up repeatedly in this thread as authoritative with regard to the things of G-d. The fact is, when some of your scholars and leaders clearly were murders then it stands to reason that they cannot be used as authoritative. That, my friend is why many simply go back and say, sola scriptura - because in the end, ALL of us have people in our spirtual ancestry that we would not want to follow. In other words, when picking a traditions, follow the ones that adhere to Scripture, instead of following the men that came up with them.