This anti-Catholic crap is getting to be annoying

[ChairmanAgnostic]

216. There ARE pedophile priests in the Church,

and because their crimes were covered up, because judges, lawyers, and victims were repeatedly and deliberately lied to, and because the church tried its best to pretend no problem existed, the whole church is corrupt and evil. To say otherwise, would be like saying because some of the Nazi brownshirts did many good deeds, they should not be judged by the crimes committed by some.

Horrible things are happening all over the world, in some cases, CAUSED by the church. Therefore religion is useless. In fact, religions that wash and rinse the brains of children, and force lies down their throats, and teach them that science is evil, are worse than useless, they are evil personified.

All religions are corrupt? I wouldn't go that far. I rather like the pastafarians. But many do have hidden motives (the catholic church seeks money, power, and control, often in subtle, hiddeenn ways). Others, like Crespo Dollar's megachurch are upfront about their motives. He wants money. Lots of it. Because he reads from the bible, he is entitled to it. From you.

The Catholic church has been the source of evil for generations. Any fair review of history cannot avoid that conclusion. However, if you want to base your life on a story stolen from past religious cults, remixed and refined by a group of illiterate semitic nomads, claiming that Mary was a virgin when she squeezed out god between her thighs, that some moses dude opened up an entire sea, that god really comes in 3 parts, one of which is god's son (conveniently ignoring the need for a mommy god), that after Eve, there were no women for 800 years, yet people begat tons of other people, who just all happened to be male, that slavery is good, and you can sleep with as many female slaves as you wish, but heavens forbid that a woman bleed (Lev. 15:19), that if your credit cards are maxed out, you can always sell your daughter into slavery to clear your accounts, well, please go ahead.

For myself, I prefer words of wisdom that are not biblical in nature:

"The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing call revelation or revealed religion. It has been the most dishonorable belief against the character of the divinity, the most destructive to morality and the peace and happiness of man, that ever was propagated since man began to exist.”
- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason