Yet, sir, you are the only person on here who repeatedly starts threads about religion. For an atheist, who isn't supposed to give a fig about God, you sure talk a lot about his followers.
i start these threads because i like to discuss these issues and hear the opinions of like minded individuals. i didn't exactly go onto a catholic webforum and start posting. the majority of people i know are catholic and i don't dare question or grill them on their beliefs for no reason at all. of course if they start a conversation with me and i hear them say some things which are wrong like that aids is a gay disease, etc. or natural disasters are divine acts of punishment, i'll let them know where they're wrong.
i discuss these issues here because i have been on this forum for a very long time and i electronically know quite a few members here. i know that some of them think the way i do in some cases and some don't. sometimes i like it when the people who don't agree with some opinion i have make me find out just where i was wrong.
Note your bolding. How would that look at a quick glance?
my bolding was not selective quoting. if you looked, i quoted your whole block of text. the bold part was what i was specifically replying to in relation to willy the bishop.
I believe you are. You do cover it quite eloquently though.
you're wrong. i don't believe you're antisemitic. i do believe though that you may be defending a faith you may belong to. are you catholic?
I use it as a counter-example because I grew up in an Islamic country and that's the other faith that I have the most exposure too, both its positives and negatives.
that's fine. but i don't usually like getting into debates about the merits of islam because i have no islamic experience and it would be way harder to make my arguments. also, i tend to criticize negative actions of groups who have the most influence in canadian society. i go after the big guy.
I won't be taking part in the threads anymore fair enough. But they are extreme. You don't see me putting up threads routinely criticizing the worst of any other religion or another race for example. How about I start a thread about the latest beheading by the Taliban. Would that be considered acceptable? I should hope not. So why should you be allowed to paint Catholicism by using the worst Catholics as their poster boys.
you can take part in these discussions. i have no prohibitions against you. if something happens in the news involving a negative act and that act is religiously motivated, i don't see why you shouldn't talk about it. if you want to criticize a race, keep in mind that there is only one race = human. you have every right to criticize actions humans. of course if anyone starts a thread stating that being scottish makes a person predisposed to being a criminal, that would be wrong and false since there is no evidence for such a thing.
p.s, the poster boys i am using to paint catholicism with (specifically in this thread) are the ones who have the most influence in the church= the leaders. i didn't exactly start a thread criticizing catholicism because someone who happened to be catholic was reported on the news for stealing a car or something.