Re: Question for Atheists

On Mar 31 2006 11:20 AM, DVDA wrote:

As an outsider, the bad that the Catholic church has done FAR outways the
good.

That is a rediculous statement to make.  In what way can you quantify the
individual actions of a huge body throughout 2000 years of history? And then
make a decision on the bad outweighing the good? For example, during the dark
ages, the Catholic church, although corrupt was the one keeper of
scholarship,
litteracy, writting and pretty much anything to do with preventing western
civilization from crashing back to the Stoneage.  I consider that to be more
meaningful to the human race, then the negatvies caused by a few knob
polishings
carried out in the altar boy's dressing room.

Just a statement. Althought the church has done a lot of good, the chruch
is precisely what *kept* us in the dark ages, and held off on
enlightenment for 1000 years.

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