Telling the truth isn’t bashing.
Hiding behind the word bashing is akin to accusing people of being “rassis.” The sole purpose is to shut people down.
It is a well know liberal tactic.
Mm-hmm. And you just *happen* to spend a preponderance of your time in the Religion Forum posting threads and comments against the Catholic Church. Right.
...and the fact that your “band of brothers” (i.e. those of like mind to you) pepper their Catholic Church comments with words such as “cult”, etc., is completely coincidental. Right.
Look: faithful Catholics are *more* outraged about the errors and abuses committed by Catholics (especially clerics) than you are. We don’t like them, and we don’t approve of them. But if you think the Catholic Church has some sort of monopoly on “fallen humans in the ranks” (including idiots who shuffle other sinners from place to place, rather than dealing with it rightly), then I don’t know what to tell you.
It’s when you (and your “buddies” who hate the Catholic Church) try to make a “connection” such as “Catholic official [x] did [insert bad thing], therefore the Catholic Church is a false Church and a cult”, THAT’s when any reasonable person will part ways with your comment (and start to wonder about your credibility).