[TheCrusader]

"In "The God Delusion,"---Dawkins targets Catholicism ---. "If you want to experience the medieval rituals of faith, the candle light, the incense, music, important-sounding dead languages, nobody does it better than the Catholics," he says."

Satan always attacks the Catholic Church, because he knows it's the true Church of Jesus Christ and that it represents the biggest obstacle on earth against his unholy plans. When scientists spew their hatred for religion and specifically name the Catholic Church, we Catholics humbly wear it as a badge of honor. They are 'scientists' indeed, for they have discovered how to turn venom into a faith-strengthening tonic.

[skr]

Satan doesn't confine his attacks of Christians only to the Catholic Church. Only those with a relationship with the Son of God are the true Church of Jesus the Christ. God does not limit those He saves to only one denomination. I would agree that the Catholic Church is a popular target due to its size and worldwide influence. I also agree with you that to be persecuted for Jesus is indeed an honor.

[Mr. Thorne]

I took it as a backhanded compliment.

There's nothing quite like Easter vigil in Latin...

[Cheburashka]

Robert A. Heinlein said ( and I don't know where he got it from) "Children live in the present, adults live in the future, old people live in the past." Today many physically mature people are still children (i.e. present oriented, not future oriented). Perhaps it has always been so. It is a mistake that people often make to believe that "things are worse now than they have ever been." But I wonder if at some point the massive number of children who never grow up will lead to catastrophe.

[Cheburashka]

Ironically enough, Catholics have no problem with the theory of evolution as a theory. But at some point in the past, even if we cannot identify where that point was, our previously animal ancestors became something more than mere animals, something "made in the image of God".