[cake_crumb]

"It is not wrong to pray for God to forgive others -- after all people request lesser things from the Almighty all the time. Whether or not God grants these requests is up to Him"

This has just degenerated into a general Catholic bashing fest, with a LARGE dose of "My brand of Christianity is better than YOUR brand of Christianity!!"

....Here I am, on other threads and in other areas, a Catholic Jew defending the principles of ALL forms of Christianity against rabid Muslims who are DISSING US AS INFIDELS BECAUSE NONE OF US WORSHIP THEIR GOD....and here I am on THIS thread reading all this petty bickering between the different denominations of the same Christian religion...which also happens to be under attack, just as Judaeism, which WORSHIPS THE SAME GOD AS THE CHRISTIANS is under attack.

PHAUGH!! I'd spit on the floor in disgust, but I'd just have to clean it up.

[Junior]

As a cradle Catholic who grew up in the deep South, I have a tendency to take the bashing in stride.

[DBtoo]

That is why there have been so many wars fought over religion. It's interesting to see how the human mentality has changed little over the centuries in that regard.