The Catholic Church, along with every organized religion, have situations in
their history that wish they could forget. There have been evil people who
have tainted the reputations of every organized religion, yet the major
religions do provide excellent guidelines for personal and social
happiness.

Pope John Paul II was not perfect, but his legacy as a decent strong leader
who made a positive impact on Catholics and Non-Catholics will be
remembered.

I do not believe Doug's flame was directed at those who wait in line to see
the leader of their religion, but was a veiled barb directed at the Catholic
Church. It reminds me of those bigots who want to chastise the Islamic
Religion, due to the action of the terrorists or to call all Protestants
terrorists due to the actions of some Protestants terrorists in Northern
Ireland.



"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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I have no problem with them doing that. However, I can still question
their judgement, not just for standing in line for so long to see a dead
body, but also in contributing their time, attention, spirits and money to
an organization (the Catholic church) which, as any educated person knows,
has a reputation that's dubious, at best.

There are more than 1 billion people in the work that disagree with you!