If it bothers anyone that much there are several solutions:
1) Stop posting threads that bash Catholics.
2) As the RM has stated many times. Simply stick to Caucus threads.
3) Stop doing "keyword" searches.
Well, expecting Catholics to grow up is certainly not an option, I see.
It is a tacky and childish alternative to debate, like using abuse reports to get posts/posters removed instead of arguing the issues on thread. Moderators are not amused by such tactics.
Some of those threads don’t even mention Catholicism.
But no doubt, thin skinned Catholics with an axe to grind will see them that way anyway and take offense.
Catholicism = Church of the Perpetually Offended.
If someone doesn’t like exalting Christ and considers that *Catholic bashing* then THEY are the ones with the problem and I am not going to exclude people from a discussion simply because they disagree with me.
So no, I have no intention of posting caucus threads.
I’m not so weak that I feel like I need the protection of the caucus label to post a thread.
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.