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Well that's one RC opinion, just 999,999,999 more wildly differing RC opinions for me to collect.

The only view you should be looking at is the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Not Catholics on FR. Not Dave Hunt or any other Prot goofball who makes up lies about the Church. It is rather easy to find what Catholicism teaches. But we know that you don't care about the 'official Catechism' You want to isolate random quotes and random statements. That's okay, you're Protestant. That's what y'all do.

The RC system is designed to support hugh diversity of opinion and doctrine by virtue of man made complexity.

LOL. I love how you're the expert on Catholicism. Tell you what. Do some book learnin outside of Prot sources. It is hilarious that you are discussing a system that has diversity of opinion when your own heresy has thousands of sects. Every time a Prot gets a new idea in his head he starts his own 'church'. In terms of things man-made, again look at your own group. The whole heresy is a movement started because Luther had Daddy issues. This is demonstrated very well by the fact that some of his core teachings contradict the Bible and even themselves. Sola Scriptura not being in the Bible for instance.

The Church allows you to talk about beliefs WITHIN the Church, but it maintains strict doctrine. I agree with Alexius about Protestant groups that break up on a whim -- I know an Aunt who joined an evangelical group that split 5 times in 4 years on things as silly as location, one "pastor" who spoke rudely once, etc. etc.

The Protestant split led to groups like the Jehovah's witnesses, Mormons, Unitarians, etc.

Every time a Prot gets a new idea in his head he starts his own 'church'.

I saw some doozies today while driving thru central florida. One had a cross contructed out of 4 inch diameter white PVC Sch. 40 pipe.

It must have been 150 feet high.