On the attacks on the Catholic Church

[Lordquinton]

140. I don't differentiate between the hierarchy and the orginization

if you call yourself Catholic, then you need to own the good and the bad, you are standing up to be counted in that 1.2 billion, and you should know that as a whole it doesn't matter if one person is good, the whole organization is corrupt, and has bigotry in it's core beliefs. This isn't some flash in the pan couple of priests did it and the new guy should denounce it. This is institutionalized abuse, the last Pope, the last leader of the organization was the guy in charge of covering it up. The last pope's former job was protecting child molesters. That didn't just come out either, it was known before he became Pope.

He was also the head of the nicer named inquisition. Papal corruption isn't some new thing either, look through church history and you will find that the nice "Wasn't always this way" is the aberration, not the ultra conservative angle.

I too am calling people on bigotry, but it happens to be from the angle that they call themselves a member of a bigoted organization. Don't like it? Quit. That simple, until then you own everything that comes with it, Not saying you do any of that personally, just that you support it by aligning yourself with it. And not saying you personally, speaking of Catholics in general.

One final thing, where are you when Atheists get bashed?