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Originally Posted by Warfish
So as I said, your claim of being a Roman Catholic was not accurate, and you are instead a lapsed inactive former Roman Catholic.
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Sure, fine.
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Originally Posted by Warfish
I have serious doubts that you can speak "with authority" on the Catholic Church simply because you were raised in the faith and then went lapsed early in your life. Perhaps you may recall some dogma, yes. But detailed knowledge (i.e. authority) on how and where "the money goes", no, I do not believe that.
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Well nobody knows where the money goes, the Vatican is very secretive.
I do know that 3.3 billion was spent on sexual abuse cases in the US in the last 15 years alone. 1.3 of which in California (laxed their statute of limitations on these crimes, other states are presently following suit).
But yea, go to any Catholic Church, step inside and walk to the center, look around in 360 degrees, then go read the New Testament. Jesus doesn't need that marble flooring, stain glass windows, high arches and gold chalices. In fact, he'd rather had met on the field outside and used all that money on the poor.
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Originally Posted by Warfish
A perfectly reasonable position to take if true, and your termination of active membership of that group would certainyl be in-line with such a position.
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It's probably not a fair representation of what they do, on my part. It might be 2/3, 1/3 in the other direction. Either way, their overhead is unnecessarily large, and much of what they spend their money on is antithetical to Jesus' philosophy.