Reply #80: Ye. Gods.

[ElboRuum]

"Remaining silent to injustices perpetrated by your acknowledged spiritual shepherds is not wrong?"

Who says they are silent? Ask some DU Catholics what THEY think. Geez.

"Also, you would seem to have forgotten all of your catechism if you think that Catholicism does not consider itself a "get out of Hell free pass.""

Have I? You CONVENIENTLY left out the part about REPENTANCE. Now who is forgetting their catechism? Hmm?

"Please explain how I am the one being anti-common-sense, and how my pointing this out is "clinically hysterical" of me."

Fine. Here goes.

"Remember that the whole point of Christianity is to get into Heaven and avoid Hell: that is fundamental premise of Jesus' birth, teachings, torture, execution and resurrection."

No. The whole point of Christianity is to walk in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. To take in the message, and act on the philosophy of tolerance and humility. Only organized religions with political ambitions have perverted that message, this lead to the Great Schism, the Inquisition, the Reformation, etc. etc. ad nauseam.

And precisely this is where you fall off the logical wagon and land in the hysterical ditch. You equate the practitioner with the religion. You might as well say that every Catholic is a Torquemada simply because that is a relic of the religion's history. And you actually ARE saying it, that because every DU Catholic hasn't sent a scathing letter requesting excommunication from the church, that they are somehow complicit in the asshattery of the leadership. The assertion bears no sense, common or otherwise, and is motivated, and this is just a guess mind you but the behavior fits, by an emotional response based upon your own narrow view of the church and its dogma moreso than any point of reason or basis in fact as to what DU Catholics may otherwise think about this.