You should start a new topic to poll whether or not this should be your new sig:

what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

FINE THEN!

I'm taking this with me too, because it's mine.

most of the people that hate catholicism are recovering catholics, just fyi. most others don't care in my experience, with the exception of outlandish bullshit like pedophilia and the pope's position on condoms/aids

I never quite liked the term "recovering."  "Former," usually works as a proper term.

It just bugged me how books like Da Vinci Code tend to demonize Catholics, yet people shrug it off, when if switched the conspirators and/or oppressors to some other group like maybe Blacks or Jews, suddenly people give a damn.

I was raised in a very Mexican Catholic and Protestant family, so a lot of times when Catholics are portrayed in negative ways, due to their Catholic affiliation, I feel like it's a smack in the face to the people in my family who actually are good natured people AND Catholics.

but isn't it wrong to portray ANYBODY as being "naturally evil," just because their faith in what reality is and their rituals are different than yours? Sure you can apply that to Nazis or Satanists, maybe, but Catholics? And would it be okay switch if Jews or Blacks weren't oppressed for centuries? Not only that, if you read a lot of the Bible, Jewish orders were very corrupt in the same way many Catholic groups have become now so if the fact that one group is powerful with money justifies slander or demonizing, then Jews deserve to be on the list as much as Catholics, especially considering the kind of things they've done to Palestine. Plus, much of the media in our country is controlled by Jews, just as our government has been heavily dominated for years rich by white men. But would it be right for us to portray ANY of these groups as being naturally evil based on their skin color, nationality, or religion without any proof that these things call for them to act such a way to be Jewish, White, Black, or Catholic? I don't think so myself. If it's wrong to do to one group, no matter how big or small, it's wrong to do to any group.


If you want your story's villain to be catholic or jewish, go ahead, but you shouldn't make them the villain BECAUSE their Jewish or Catholic, and you shouldn't make those qualities of them the reason they're evil either.