going off topic a bit, but christopher hitchens was discussing this once (when he was debating with tony blair i think) a lot of the world believe that jesus was the son of god and yet if you were sitting beside someone on a bus and he(that person on the bus) said he was son of god, would you move closer or edge away? dont know about you but id be edging away
always made me laugh
"The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation" - Henry David Thoreau.
tom sand (20-05-15)
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SweetStrawberry (21-05-15)
Imagine living in the dark ages if even some of these were blocked successfully!
They provided a lot of education and nursing /medical services for Catholics at a time when no one else was inclined to do so.
Sure , they made many mistakes, often shrugged off or covered up those mistakes and failed to move with the times, but many of their mistakes were repeated or worse things were done around the world by plenty of non- Catholics.
Is is easy to look back from the ivory tower of the present , to past times when things were very different and people thought very differently.
EIFII (21-05-15)