[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“Can we get our money back???”

Sure and we’ll send you a bill for living in Western Civiliation (a Catholc thing), for literacy (Catholics established schools in the West), for medical care (hospitals are a Cathlolic invention), any enjoyment you ever had for Western art or music, etc.

[muir_redwoods]

As written the posters concern was that her ancestors were taxed to support Harvard. When did the Catholics found Harvard?

[fatboy]

vladimir998 saith: Sure and we’ll send you a bill for living in Western Civiliation (a Catholc thing), for literacy (Catholics established schools in the West), for medical care (hospitals are a Cathlolic invention), any enjoyment you ever had for Western art or music, etc.

You left out the Inquisition, the fact that The USA was founded on Catholic not Protestant or Biblical values and those festive fun days like the The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

[caww]

Taking the topic to the points you are trying to make is typical of those who fail to see the problem and rather divert the clear topic to something else......we all know who uses this as a tactic in order to continue to cover the clear problems within the church.

People are being abused....what this man did to his congregation is “spiritual rape” for the pleasures he indulged himself with.. in a lifestyle diametrically opposed to God's clear word. He needs to be prosecuted and jailed for his crimes........

[count-your-change]

You left out the invention of the airplane and internet and
deep fried Twinkies.

[April Lexington]

Ok, so we are even! Now, how about some reparations for the slaves you sold us?

[RnMomof7]

Sure and we’ll send you a bill for living in Western Civiliation (a Catholc thing), for literacy (Catholics established schools in the West), for medical care (hospitals are a Cathlolic invention), any enjoyment you ever had for Western art or music, etc.

Actually while the Vatican was collecting money by the sale of indulgences and relics to build a castle for the pope.. Calvin was busy building a free and educated society

Calvin .... set out to create the perfect society under God's ultimate rule. His covenantal or contractual view of church and of society as voluntary associations, with rulers (magistrates) and those who lead chosen by and accountable to the members became the basis of civil society and eventually of political organization in Europe, North America and elsewhere. On the one hand, Calvin recognized social responsibility; on the other he stressed individual responsibility to live a good, productive and moral life before God. Stressing the dignity of man, Calvin's social reforms included relief for the poor, construction of hospitals, schools (which were free), new prisons, consumer protection laws, provisions for refugees, and a sanitation system that made Geneva one of the cleanest and healthiest cities in Europe. Calvin was morally strict but humane, almost a humanist in his concern to reach the heart not only the mind of men and women.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/John_Calvin

It was the work of the deacons to administer funds for the poor and the sick and to look after the maintenance of the public hospital. Provision was also made for medical care for the poor in their own homes. Begging was strictly forbidden. A hospital recently established for travelers passing through the town was also to be maintained. There was a separate hospital for the plague.
http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/gilbert/14.html

It was the protestants in America that started "Sunday school" to teach the illiterate how to read so they could study the scriptures..

I take nothing away from the Roman church's hospitals or schools but to claim that as an exclusive accomplishment when in fact protestants can point to Geneva