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It is not only the Catholics that have problems, or even any religion in particular it is the people involved in them. How many people have been punished, and put to death in and for the name of a God since the dawn of man. The laws of a God misinterpreted by mistake or on purpose. The Catholic Church has had problems with child abuse, but whose fault is that? It is as in most religions the laws of God and therefore the leaders are not to be questioned. I was raised in the Pentecostal religion, and I saw how the Church could control peoples lives using the name of God to get what they wanted. How they would attempt to control those not even in the religion. They preached he7l fire and bream stone, misquoted the bible to get those in the Church to vote the way the few holier than thou zealots wanted. I was and am proud to be an American, I loved History, I read not only the history books provided by the School, but anything having to do with it, and was encouraged by my Teachers to do so. I learn there was more to our history than what the religious zealots wanted taught. I had to go to Sunday school, there through a Childs eyes I Began to understand God gives us a choice. History teaches the evils man can do in the name of God. We have choices in all we do, those choices are ours and no one else’s , and we will be the only one to answer for those choices. I also loved science; there I learned there are few absolutes. History and Science show things known to be fact today may not be tomorrow and vice reverse. Only a select few have been said to have actually spoken to God. It takes not just a blind faith in God, but also a blind faith in the word of the select few who said they had spoken to that God. In times past to Question those select few, one could be put to death. Shame and being shamed falls in there as well. The church ruled all, they feared Science, and killed those of science. Science called into question the very existence of God, which threatened the church and the power and control it held through the belief in a God. Science showed it was more the faith in the word of the select few men of god, which religion is/was based on, more than the word of a God, few had actually seen. And no undeniable absolute proof to show there was or was not a God. There are those who do the right things because of the word of God, and or the fear of he7l and the desire to go to heaven. And there are those who do the right things or what the church says is right, out of fear of what the church can and will do. There is an evil in man, the need and desire to control others, for the purpose of one or a group, religious or otherwise. The child abuse in the Catholic faith is no different, than that which exist in any other religions. Jim Jones, Waco , or Heavens Gate. Or the many other religious cults around world. Having said all that if you are offended by a joke about your religion because of things that have actually have happened, in it. Don’t get mad at the person who tells the joke, it maybe as it should be. Get mad at your self you may have suspected some thing was wrong and did nothing about it, out of fear. Use your so called faith in God to fix your own crap, then just worrying about keeping your own crap straight, would keep you out of other peoples business, and you won’t have time to be offended. I try the have respect, but if I have a joke I and others may find funny, but a few are offended because it challenges their so called faith, the Constitution still says I have that right. Least the religions zealots want to change that for their purposes.  Be sure your house is spotless before you question mine as far as this religious offending goes.

Posted By yote on 12 Feb 2013 08:32 PM
ckell   sick? yes! but are you offended?

Posted By ckell on 12 Feb 2013 08:53 PM

Posted By yote on 12 Feb 2013 08:32 PM
ckell   sick? yes! but are you offended?

Nope, just not a picture I really wanted in my mind.

a man went into a catholic church for confession,he kneels in the booth and says fogive me father I have lied and cheated on my wife.  the priest says," go say 5 hail marys  and your sins will be forgiven." the man goes home happy.   two weeks later he comes back kneels in the both and says father forgive me I have committed a  robbery, the priest says ,"go say 10 hail marys and your sins will be forgiven." the man goes home happy. a few weeks go by and the maN ONCE AGAIN COMES FOR CONFESSION. this time the priest is no where to be found. the man, feeling guilty doesn't know what to do. just then an alter boy walks by so the man says," hey kid what does the father give for sodomy?

  the alter boy answers,"he usually gives me 10 bucks!"