[mercy]

Sorry for saying you guys when I meant the RC church. Still don't think that qualifies as an ad-hominem attack. The fool that was called such was in response to a personal attack but is not the general tenor of my posts.

Your insistence that your church is Christ's church is just silly. It is the very foundation or soil for the propagation of hate. Personally I don't know how one can practice the blasphemy of praying to another than God (Mary and various other 'saints') and still be a true disciple of Christ .... but God is a God of miracles. I leave it alone.

Most of the other egregious sins attached to 'the church' are fomented by it's priests and its priestly structure so the duped parishioners are sinless themselves although they suffer by dint of the power held over them by said priests.

Why you would think me a Muslim really is beyond me. I would be an atheist before I would sink to that inhuman practice.

[Cronos]

Personally I don't know how one can practice the blasphemy of praying to another than God (Mary and various other 'saints') and still be a true disciple of Christ .... but God is a God of miracles. I leave it alone.

Ah, but that's just the point -- we do NOT pray to Mary or to the saints.

Most of the other egregious sins attached to 'the church' are fomented by it's priests and its priestly structure so the duped parishioners are sinless themselves although they suffer by dint of the power held over them by said priests.

Note: SOME of the priests, not all.

Why you would think me a Muslim really is beyond me. I would be an atheist before I would sink to that inhuman practice.

Do you have an idea aboutIslam before you say such a thing? I don't think so. I don't think you really know about Catholicism, and that's why you say such wrong things -- refuted, I might repeat in post #158. I think you are Muslime because Muslimes are brainwashed from the time they are born that Christianity is evil, etc. and your pieces seem to reflect what they say.

While you may have faith (and good if you do), to express your faith in a negative sense (ANTI-CAtholic, ANTI-main stream Protestants) is not good and tells me that your faith roots may be weak. If you do find strong faith roots outside the Catholic church, so be it, but those strong faith roots would express themselves differently, not on the attack.