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In reply to the discussion: This anti-Catholic crap is getting to be annoying [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)but some here want to pretend they are victims b/c others ask... why don't you engage in civil disobedience against an entity that is ranked by religious scholars as a fundamentalist entity on par with Protestant and Islam fundamentalism? This is the underlying question in all the "enabling" statements. Rather than address this within themselves, they attack those who ask the question.
The Fundamentalist Project, out of the U. of Chicago, and one of whose leaders is at Notre Dame, states that Catholicism is a fundamentalism that differs in explanation for its exceptionalism, but not the underlying pathology behind that belief that they have the right to elide separation of church and state.
The Catholic claim lies in the belief that the church itself, rather than a book, as with Protestantism, is the direct will of god, according to those who have done comparative religion studies of the four big religions that now curse the world with their claims - Catholic, Protestant, Islamic and Judaism. The reality is that Hindu fundamentalism is also a big problem in India.