[BO Stinkss]

I don’t know amuch about the catholic church. But from the outside looking in it looks like a hotbed of homosexuality and homophobia. They are also pretty cozy with the democrats. I don’t know how they stay in business.

[Hieronymus]

Grace, lots of grace. Pius VI once told Napolean: “You silly little man, if we and our priests haven’t been able to destroy the Church in 1800 years, what makes you think that you can do it.” As one former protestant minister observed, if a protestant denomination were managed the way the Church is, it would be out of business in two weeks.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

But from the outside looking in it looks like a hotbed of homosexuality and homophobia.

Most of your information probably comes through the media.

[little jeremiah]

A hotbed of homosexuality AND homophobia? Which one do you prefer? Aren’t they sort of either/or?

[TArcher]

I don’t know how they stay in business.

 

It's no MYSTERY that the historical business of perverted eunuchs having "assumed dominion over the faith of others" in a spiritual slave-trade is very profitable. 

 

Got Indulgences?

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=sale+of+indulgences

"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;

 

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 that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "

 

"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"

--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786

http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/vaact.html