[Cronos]

But the scandal-mongering probably convince most people that both sides are a bunch of miscreants. If someone is belligerent enough, and simultaneously attacks the Catholic Church while arguing that the Catholic Church teaches salvation through works, the average person will walk away thinking that person is a jerk and that the Catholic Church teaches salvation through do-gooderism... and if he’s friendly enough to Catholicism, might just start believing in salvation through do-gooderism!

Well put.

On this thread you now see how someone puts the statements of "oh, this is one bad PCA person, so all PCA are like this" -- this is the SAME attack used on CAtholics, the very same and now we see complaints that someone else is using it on the PCA?

We see someone putting up a fake number of 3 billion dollars and they will complain when someone else may say that “Well, I heard that the PCA tore down 2.5 million square miles of Brazilian rain forest because they were afraid someone might try to build a cross.”

a 300,000 membership organization attacks one with 1.2 billion and doesn't see how those attacks are viewed by non-Christians everywhere. the 300K organization lives in its own cocoon. sheesh.

[dangus]

>> when someone else may say that “Well, I heard that the PCA tore down 2.5 million square miles of Brazilian rain forest because they were afraid someone might try to build a cross.” <<

Yeah, but who would write such a terrible thing? :^D