As most of you know, I believe ALL religions are as bad as one another. It's a long-running tit-for-tat thing with the Catholics being vilified by the jdubs and I'm sure the sentiments are returned by Catholics who bother to banter with the exceptionally one-eyed jdub zealots.

To me ... the similarities cover the usual. The jdubs have 'the' religion. The Catholics have 'the' religion. The child abuse scandal covers both churches ... so again a similarity. Priests in the Catholic church are not supposed to have sex ... jdubs are not supposed to have sex outside of the marriage arrangement ... and yet members of both religions do. Human imperfection will be the scapegoat for many a crime with the jdubs ... Catholics I guess can always blame the last Pope or the Priests who led people astray etc.

I don't agree with your analogy that baptising infant children in the Catholic (or any other) faith can be likened to a parent saving a child from a burning house Non ... as I believe it's a parent's natural instinct to go into protection mode and save their child from pending danger and potential death. Religion is not a burning building for a child to be saved from ... it's a religion.    A lifestyle that adults can choose if they so wish but sadly children are lumbered with.     I can see why you've added your sentiments though.

It's a shame that the jdubs don't take a leaf out of the Catholics book and practice charity, rather than what the jdubs do ... which is to preach about loving all mankind and then only helping their own. Sending out copies of magazines and NWT bibles isn't going to provide the poor with food in their bellies or a roof over their heads! At least the Catholics ... strings and all in some cases ... have historically helped the poor.

Both our boys were born in the St John of God Hospital ... a Catholic run private hospital. Jdubs don't have privately run hospitals or charity shops or soup kitchens.

"Thanks to God .... for making me an Atheist!"
Ricky Gervais
Golden Globe Awards - 2011