[topcat54]

I was baptized a Catholic and grew up a Catholic.

Ditto.

All my extended family is Catholic.

Ditto.

I’m anti-Catholicism. I oppose the telling of false doctrine as truth that the Catholic church engages in.

Sure, but stretching the truth?

I still do not understand how, in your world, drinking and smoking get written up alongside adultery and sodomy as great sins of Roman Catholicism. Why not add j-walking?

[1000 silverlings]

A drunkard cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Let alone be shepherds. Smoking is a drug addiction.

[metmom]

Interesting.

Does God consider one sin worse than another?

Who made up the artificial designations of categories of sins?

[Cronos]

Sure, but stretching the truth? I still do not understand how, in your world, drinking and smoking get written up alongside adultery and sodomy as great sins of Roman Catholicism. Why not add j-walking?

Stretching the truth is the irritating bit. One can debate with ex-Catholics such as yourself or boat who will bring up a particular topic because they seriously wish to explain or show people the light (badly putting it, but you know, they care). If anyone stretches the truch or uses slurs etc., they are not aiming to convert but to score a target for their hatred.