Posted on 10/20/2011 3:36:08 PM PDT by NYer
“Shall I go on?”
Yes, please, but be sure you have your facts straight, and that you’re not just talking about some rogue cleric.
It’s both provocative and sad at the same time, to see how deep some people’s persecution complexes run. I wonder if they ever think something happy in their heads when they look at the rest of the world that isn’t like them.
As long as a thread is not a "Catholic Caucus," I will continue to react in horror to the evil repeatedly allowed in this "church" by its highest leadership.
“I will continue to react in horror to the evil repeatedly allowed in this “church” by its highest leadership.”
It is very difficult to persuade a person that the sources he trusts have been lying to him. Not only does a person have an emotional investment in the beliefs he has developed on the basis of information received from those sources, it is difficult for most people to face the facts when they have been wrong.
Perhaps more importantly, no one wants to be the sort of person who could be fooled like that. Everyone wants to think, “If they were lying to me all those years, I would have picked up on it. After all, I’m not stupid.”
It’s like Mel Blanc said, “Bugs Bunny is who we want to be; Daffy Duck is who we are afraid we are.”
Still, you can fool all the people some of the time, which means that even the smartest people do get fooled.
Which is all my way of saying, with absolutely no hope whatsoever that my remarks will be taken as they are intended, that you have been told many lies about the Catholic Church.
Has it ever occurred to you that perhaps YOU may have been told many lies about the Catholic Church?
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