Yesterday, I saw a snotty comment on a Tea Party site about how Pope Francis allegedly heads an organization that does nothing more than molest children and teach people to talk to imaginary friends.
I dunno if the poster was a Christian or not, but it hardly seems to matter. I’ve seen the same trash spewed by people who are devout followers of Jesus Christ, people who I am fairly certain believe in Jesus’ teachings about charity and truth telling.
I’m also fairly certain that such people know that the Left hates Christians and that their politicians, journalists and educators lie about us a lot. So, when it comes to climate or fracking or any of a host of other hot button issues, they are rightfully skeptical.
But when it comes to trash talked about me and my fellow Catholic Christians, many Bible Thumpers seem to just open up their gullible mouths and swallow whole.
- FACT: The incidence of molestation of children by men in the U.S. is between 1% and 5%. The incidence of priest molestation is .1%. Not one percent. POINT one percent. Children are safer with priests than with teachers, coaches, or dads BY AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE.
- FACT: The Inquisition didn’t kill millions. For one thing, there were not millions to kill. Southern Europe didn’t have that many people in it at that time. Best historical estimates put the number of executions in the low thousands and these were spread out over several centuries. Shall we talk about how many people Protestants and Muslims have executed out of religious zeal?
I could go on, but there are loads of books and websites that debunk anti-Catholic lies.
If you’re one of these people who loves Jesus, but thinks Catholics are eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil … do yourself a favor. Not me, YOU. Because Jesus is going to judge you on this stuff.
Do some research! Read something that Catholics have written about what Catholics believe. Please.
A couple of good sites are Catholic dot com, EWTN dot com, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is online, searchable and free @ ccc.usccb.org/flipbooks/catechism/index.html.
Sources:
- lifesitenews.com/news/forgotten-study-abuse-in-school-100-times-worse-than-by-priests
- yellodyno.com/html/child_molester_stats.html
- catholic.com/tracts/the-inquisition
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