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After centuries of oppressing and tormenting others, the Catholic Church endures mild criticism. (Original Post) RadiationTherapy Mar 2013 OP
Just like many religious and all right wing organizations Drale Mar 2013 #1
All criticism begins with the criticism of religion - Approximately Marx. RadiationTherapy Mar 2013 #2
OH JESUS CHRIST! THE BIGOTRY!!! ALL THOSE PEOPLE SAYING BAD THINGS ABOUT THE CHURCH! backscatter712 Mar 2013 #3
People get so used to their privileged status that criticism feels like persecution. RadiationTherapy Mar 2013 #4

Drale

(7,932 posts)
1. Just like many religious and all right wing organizations
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 12:38 PM
Mar 2013

they can not take any criticism and believe it to be a war on their beliefs.

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)
3. OH JESUS CHRIST! THE BIGOTRY!!! ALL THOSE PEOPLE SAYING BAD THINGS ABOUT THE CHURCH!
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 12:52 PM
Mar 2013


I mean, how dare we point out the fact that money from collection plates sometimes goes to not-so-charitable places.

And how dare we suggest that the charities themselves are tainted by dumbfuckery. Examples: adoption agencies threatening to shut their doors rather than adopt to gay couples, or hospitals that would let a woman die in a miscarriage rather than use an abortion to save her life.
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