[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally posted by Cheese@Oct 20 2005, 01:22 PM
And you? Are you a Priest? Have you spent more than 5 minutes reading your bible?
Are you suggesting that the Catholics are a forward thinking group that has managed to move with the times? Perhaps the millions of Catholics who suffer from AIDs in Africa might differ?
I was raised Roman Catholic, Joined the Morman temple and lived with a Jehovah. I have studied religion...religiously. I dropped all religion at about age 24ish when it dawned on me that all of them were hypocrites, including the evangelical protestant types. Why?

I'll never argue with you that some of what the church says is a little out of wack with reality (birth control vs AIDS for one), but that is a moral matter, this is a scientific debate, and in that context you implied that the Catholic Churc (the Pope in particluar) supports the idea of a literal interpretation of the entire bible, including the creation story, and that is just plain FALSE.

Argue the morality of condemming birthcontrol as a means of disesase prevention all you want, chances are I'll be on your side for most of that one, but don't go making completly FALSE statements to support your own dislike for the Catholic Church and religion in general.