“He is trying to convert you. You may want to listen.”
You know, what I listen to is people like yourself.
Before I joined this site in 2009 I really didn’t know any Catholics and I didn’t know anything about Catholicism. But after I joined this site I learned a lot about Catholics and I’ve learned a few things about Catholicism.
What I’ve learned about Catholics as they are represented on this site is that they are condescending, rude, impertinent, haughty, myopic, stubborn, and are readily provoked into anger.
Meanwhile, I’ve come to find that your Popes are generally decent men who are necessarily dogmatic (it goes with the job). While I think your Pope is wrong on what he said I doubt that he’d tweak about my disagreement as much as you or your fellow Catholics do.
I know more than a few people in the FLDS (which most folks would agree is a cult) and those people are frankly less reactionary when I criticize Warren Jeffs who is their Prophet (which in their eyes outranks a mere Pope).
In contrast I know that I can easily provoke a rabid, cult-like response from Catholics with a simple comment like in my first post in this topic. It’s kind of fascinating to me that the people who are members of a mainstream faith behave more cultish than actual cult members.
Tangential to this topic but in line with this particular discussion, I’ve also had four years to notice a concurrence between Catholics and Democrats. In my opinion I’ve concluded that the majority of Catholics are also Democrats because the Democrat Party better fits the worldview of Catholics.
Catholics in their faith need someone to tell them what to think and what to believe and they also fervently believe in a large, authoritarian, bureaucratic, and hierarchical organization that controls their faith. Transposing that view of religion into politics and it makes sense that Catholics would generally support the Democrat penchant for a large, authoritarian, bureaucratic, and hierarchical government.
In short, Catholics want a government that resembles your church.
You say that you can provoke a response by posting something like you did on this thread. That is called baiting and the Religion Moderator doesn’t take kindly to it.
And I’m trying to be kind.
With all due respect Megan, your posts aren’t exactly respectful of the Catholic Church or the Pope.