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In reply to the discussion: Do you know why Catholics put money in the collection plate at Sunday mass? [View all]MFrohike
(1,980 posts)Most of the posters raging against the church in this thread are pretty clueless about it. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetically boring. Honestly, I wonder if they realize that collections began a long, steep dive in America following Paul VI's anti-birth control encyclical and have positively nose-dived since the revelation of the rape scandal. American Catholics have been withholding their money from the hierarchy for DECADES and it has not produced a magical swing to the left. If anything, the hierarchy have doubled down on a fundamentalist view of doctrine.
Those posters demanding, yes demanding, that catholics leave the church because the hierarchy is generally incompetent and often morally corrupt are simply clueless. Leave my family because some of my relatives, metaphorically speaking, are idiots? Sure, I'll get right on that. I have to wonder if they apply their logic to their own lives.