[Byron_the_Aussie]

..consider this, from Hobbes' Leviathan, in 1668:...

(:^D)

Had to go back 300+ years for some Catholic-bashing quotes, did you?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Had to go back 300+ years for some Catholic-bashing quotes, did you? It is not Catholic bashing. It is legitimate criticism of ecclesiastical power. There are Catholics who bash Catholicism by virtue (or lack of it) they don't adhere to the teaching of the Gospels. I have Catholic friends who bitterly resent the Papacy for this action.

As far as I am concerned, the Catholic Church was once a great institution when the Bishops and Cardinals actually rode into battle to wage war as soldiers for Christ and beat back Moslem invaders. The Pope is joining the 'axis of evil'???