**I have respect for people who want to worship as they will but I could never become a member of the Catholic Church. It has the blood of too many on its hands. Too many burnings at the stake. Too much political intrigue. **
It might be good for you to get part of the real truth — Try Ken Follett’s book “Pillars of the Earth.” Very explicit in some parts, but quite well researched on the building of a cathedral and the treatment of Catholics by those in control.
And I will bet you a steak dinner that there are many more Catholic martyrs, killed for their faith, that you would ever imagine.
Lets not change the subject. I am talking about Catholic Church sanctioned violence either directly or by it agents in governments under the Catholic Church's control.