[boatbums]

Thanks for the kind reply. I do not condone false statements about ANY faith. You do have to admit, though, that there are many people in the Catholic Church that do not understand their own church's teaching or who use the catechism as a sort of guideline and then either believe the parts they like and ignore the rest or distort what has been said. It is difficult to actually pin down what is believed versus what is truly taught at times.

I also think the argument goes both ways. I have seen many, many false statements, overactive hyperbole, hurtful rhetoric and downright hateful things said by Catholics on this forum about all non-Catholics as if we are less than vermin in their sight, so I cannot blame some who react in like manner. I have expressed my desire repeatedly that we refrain from that silliness and discuss issues like grown-ups. I really hope one day we will.

[Quix]

Now now.

Casting aspersions on recreational hyperbole is no fun.

Keep that up and we’ll have to take out

“brood of vipers”

“white washed tombs”

“sons of satan”

from the New Testament.

/sar