Scott weiser says:
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The difference between the Taliban and the Catholic Church is that the
Taliban demanded that *everyone* believe in radical Islam, and they
would
beat and/or kill you if you didn't do as the religious authorities
demanded,
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And my point is that religion, unfettered, becomes the Taliban. I see
that you refer to the Catholic Church today. But how do you account for
the Catholic Church of the Inquisition? Or the Catholic Church that
scared the beejeesus out of anyone doing science? I'll stick with my
initial proposition: there's only a fine line between one group of
fundamentalists and another.

Weiser says:
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And yet the Catholic Church is one of the only religions on the planet
that
is seeing an increase in members.
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Is this a good thing?

But why is it losing people in Europe? Can it be that educated people
find little of value in the teachings of the church.?

frtzw906