[BenR2]

Don't just presume that even if you're not a R.C., that it can't happen in other churches! Think about it.

True enough. You have a valid point

And we have a valid debating point, also: Lithuanians COULD fly highjacked 757s into NYC skyscrapers -- they just haven't, yet. That is why we talk about Arab terrorists in this forum.

Get the analogy?

[EDINVA]

Reading this thread has been very painful. If you want analogies, this is analogous to the Lott situation. To those on the Right, what Lott said was not earthshaking and hardly worthy of the bouhaha (except to the extent that it has caused POLITICAL damage to the party/cause). To minorities his comments merely reflected their long held perception of Lott and Republicans and conservatives generally as racist or, at a minimum, totally insensitive to their race's history. Depends on one's perspective. It reads on this thread that the diehard Catholics are defending their Church leader, while those opposing believe the current controversy merely confirms everything they've ever thought of and believed about the Catholic Church, and are to varying degrees, relishing the Church's predicament. Bigotry? Maybe. Prejudice? You bet.

[BlackElk]

AND, if a stopped clock is right twice a day, BenR2 might occasionally have a valid religious insight just as accidentally. Get that analogy?