Subject: Clarity

BC,

You're doing it again.  Once you get on the "Catholics are bad" soapbox, you're like the guy at the party
with one too many Jose Cuervos (i.e., >0).  Your tone is indignant and defensive (insert retort here).

You and I have traded posts about this in the past.
It's simply inconceivable to you that anyone could be a Catholic.  The problem is you have the insight of a
convert.  You've essentially converted to non-Catholicism. Having dealth with missionaries in
the past, I'll tell you the converts are the worst.

You make the broadbrush attacks that Catholics are stupid and hypocritical for their religion.  Your
ammunition in most cases is the propaganda of the fundamentalist Protestants. "Catholics try to buy
Heaven." "If you're rich you can get anything." Blah blah blah.

Oddly you fail to back this up with anything other than anecdote: "The Kennedys," "Frank Sinatra," et
cetera. Have you ever actually looked into the process of anullment? Have you checked the statistics
regarding income versus grant of anullment? If you had, I know you would have posted them.

I am not making charges so much as I'm responding to the Kennedy's and Sinatra's
statements that God (the Church) has reversed his/their recognition of a 20-year marriage.
How is looking up statistics going to change what the Kennedy's/Sinatra's have said?

Your lack of knowledge of Judaism is apparent in your response to Rick Stump (can't hold you responsible for
geography)  because the rite of obtaining a Get is similar to anullment. Does that make them hypocrites too?

I'll tell you where the Jews are extremely illogical:
They can't dial a phone on Saturday, but they can hire a guy to dial a phone on Saturday?
Whatever inherent evil Saturday dialing holds, how the hell is hiring some unsaved SOB
to do your "dirty work" for you a sign of devotion to God?

Disclaimer: Since I don't know much about Jews, I'm half blind, here.
So when you write to complain, don't say "Jew hater."
Instead, explain to me why it's bad to dial a phone, but good and logical to hire
a "get" (if that's what their purpose is) to dial the bad, bad phone.
Either way - it's total insanity.

[For the record, one source (www.cin.org) indicated an anullment rate of 10% of Catholic marriages.
Statistically, they can't ALL be wealthy contributors]

You're moving out of the frying pan into the fire.
You're saying they wink away the rules to more than just the rich?
That's a saving grace?
I would think following the rules would be important.
Why do I seem to be the only one who gets that point?

You overlook the acknowledged fact the majority of US Catholics are Democrats and lean liberal in most
elections. You ignore the polls that show a majority of American Catholics are opposed to removing a
woman's right to choose or discrimination based on one's sexual orientation. There's a complicated
dichotomy of separating religious from political edicts.

Finally [if you're still reading], you don't recognize that most American Catholics see Catholicism as a
culture as well as a religion. It's in the same vein as being Jewish or Hindu.  Religion is for the most part
the result of parenting.  So attacking someone for being Catholic is not far from attacking someone's ethnicity.

So go ahead and disagree with tenets of Catholicism. It is, for the moment, a free country. What damages
your credibility (for whatever it's worth) are your vicious attacks on Catholics themselves.

Have I ever asked for more than a simple explanation?  I'd plead guilty to ridiculing those
who feel sooooooo strongly about their religion but don't have the slightest clue how to defend it.
It's no different than politics. I'm not asking everyone to be a debating whiz,
only the loud-mouted idiots who insist their views are the only ones with merit.

Nine out 10 time I agree with you and think you make a great voice against the growing darkness. I'd hate to
see you chopped of at the knees if you were to become more widely published by the comments you've made
about Catholics.

I've never said anything I couldn't back up.
I could be wrong about something, but instead of straightening me out, I get hate mail (not you).
Here we are at  bartcop.com  one of the ONLY places I know where the site host takes uncensored
questions and hurls them back at the inquisitor, and I can't get any answers. That's frustrating.

I'd pay money to meet my counterpart -
1. a ditto-monkey who praises Rush
2. A Catholic who'll answer questions with something besides,
   "Well, if you don't know the answer to that one,
      I'm certainly not going to explain it to you."

Keep the fires burning.

AJC
 
 

AJC,
If you set anything straight there, I'm going to need a better compass.
 
 

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