[metmom]

You have revealed your complete lack of knowledge of the history of Ireland. If you don't think public hangings and floggings for the sin of saying the rosary, attending mass, or teaching catechism in hedgerow schools and even for wearing the color green isn't terrorism you are emotionally bankrupt.

A complaint like that coming from a Catholic?

Would that be not as bad or worse than burning someone at the stake for heresy against the Catholic church doctrine?

Or threats of ex-communication, which effectively, in the church's eyes, damns someone to hell for ETERNITY?

[Natural Law]

"Or threats of ex-communication, which effectively, in the church's eyes, damns someone to hell for ETERNITY?"

ROFLMAO - That is the speculation of a failed Catholic. The Catholic Church does not claim the authority to damn anyone or even to question ones Christianity. Excommunication is only an exile from active participation with the Church.