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Originally Posted by greencreeper
Taking Catholicism... There's a fair bit of chanting and rituals, including one (common to Christianity) whereby wine and bread are believed to become the blood and body of a long-dead god - and are then consumed. Unsafe sex is advocated, endangering the health of believers. And I doubt any country has been left untouched by the scandal of abusive priests. Sounds very cult-like to me.
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OK now you've gone in to a little more detail, your post is slightly less offensive....
Firstly I have no argument against people saying there are rituals in Catholicism (too many IMO), and your comments on communion - our God is NOT long-dead. I could go in to detail about the meaning behind Communion but that would be long-winded, off topic and invite more pointless posts about 'genocidal tyrants'.
Catholicism (which actually promotes abstinance over unsafe sex by the way) has had priests who abuse children, that is not in question. But you said Catholicism 'practices' it. My mother (and most of her family) is a Catholic and in private you're entitled to any opinion you're comfortable with but to implicate my family in that, indirectly or directly, I won't let you get off that easily.