I don't know if evangelicals/charismatics or "Catholics" scare me more today. So MANY of the Catholics are not the Catholics I was raised among.

I was raised in a home with a father who didn't believe in organized religion and a Catholic mother. On my father's side it came from his Grandfather's generation. They left what is now Czechia and turned their back on organized religion because of just what we are seeing today in their homeland back then - the un-Chrisianity of it and manipulation of people. That doesn't mean he didn't believe because he did. My mother has been a believer in the Catholic religion and I was raised in and turned my back on it prior to confirmation. I was a teen and I could see what was wrong with the "church". I seen how people were treated and what was taught was just wrong and clearly in contrast to what was preached in the bible. I myself have no use for organized religion and have said since that point religion is about manipulation and power and not any virtue.

That said, it's nice to see a Pope who is doing at least some good even though he is being forced from time to time to take a milder stance vs what he has said. People like Vance no doubt don't "agree" with the Pope's position on most things though. They are "hardliner" nut jobs who are all about the authoritarianism but won't accept true Christian values in the church.

#11 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY

Riiiight Treated horribly by the Catholic President. Gotcha JD, now put on this comfy white coat with all the nice straps... Wadda more on.