I know that you're frustrated that you can't seem to draw us out of the Catholic Church, no matter how much propaganda you dig up. We know that a lot of our history isn't pretty. We know that the priest molestation cover-up was atrocious. But you keep describing how evil and Satanic the Catholic Church supposedly is, and it just doesn't match my experience. I see a Church devoted to Christ, though some of it's members certainly show no evidence of that. Most of us do, including most priests and bishops. I don't see Mary as the center of anything we do, the most I hear about Mary is on anti-Catholic boards. I haven't heard about purgatory anywhere but on anti-Catholic boards in a long time. The most I hear about the Pope is maybe a snippet of what he said at his most recent Wednesday general audience on my local Catholic radio station, but you guys claim we can't make a move without him. That's why I remain in the Church. What I see on this board about how supposedly evil and Satanic and un-Christian we are just doesn't match, in any way, shape or form, my own experience in my Catholic life.

Just because you have lived a sheltered life, doesnt change the facts. Do you actually think that Christs true church would be guilty of mass slaughter of born again christians and Jews? Do you think that Christs church would have the highest percentage of pervert, pedophile and homosexual scandels of all the religions of the world? Do you actually think that the true church would be steeped in ritual, oral tradition and at the same time scoff at the finality of scripture??
Its time you woke up and smelled the coffee.