The Rich Port wrote:Talvezout wrote:Not to stir some drama here, but with all the talk about the possible SCOTUS pick and possible rise of anti-Catholicism on the Left, is it weird I've experienced more anti-Catholic hatred from fellow Christians then nonreligious people?
Like I remember in middle school people from my Catholic middle school were banned from a nearby Lutheran school because we were "ungodly".
I mean, historically, it wasn't atheists who persecuted Irish people for practicing "Popery". As an ex-Catholic ex-conservative myself, atheists and liberal progressives saved my life when I lost my faith after the Molestation Scandals of the 2000s.
Blind faith in tradition and dogma dies hard, and it is nobody's fault but our own when we do not abandon it.
I don't know what to say really except that I am sorry that your heart was hurt so badly, as many of our own hearts have been hurt. We expect much from our faith leaders, and hold them to high standards, and many, many of them have fallen short, perhaps even low into the abyss. It is a wound from which we shall not recover for some time. In saying that, we are not blind. We see, and we wish to bring change to what is our home. We all have dirty houses, but we love them and want them to be clean. And it takes a lot of people to clean and sweep the dirt from the floor of the House of God. I would pray that one day you might join us again in bringing that change, in helping us to clean and to bring the Church into a bright new future.