Reply #50: Recovering Catholics probably post most of the "anti-Catholic" threads [View All]

I noticed *practicing* Catholic was put in as a qualification. I am no longer a practicing Catholic as I am not a child being dragged to church by his mother any longer. I am quite resentful towards a lot of things in the church, from the bizarro sexual weirdness it tries to instill on students in school, to obscure things bishops in Europe did in the 20th century.

I actually know someone who is associated with Catholic Worker, and sometimes he almost makes me think of going back to the church and getting involved with the nicer people working for real social justice (and not the St. Vincent de Paul society). I have the same visceral reaction as I do to Pat Buchanan, I listen for a while, and start thinking, maybe I had it all wrong, this sounds OK, then I get re-acquainted and repelled again.

I was born designated an American, a wage worker (wage slave) and a Roman Catholic. I can not shed my wage slave designation at will, nor my American status without moving (to somewhere that will take me in, and where I can make a living). I do have a choice to reject my religion however, and do so.

As far as Protestant threads, I've seen plenty of threads against evangelical/fundamentalist/born-again Protestant churches, which I assume means stuff like the Pentecostal churches, the more conservatice of the Southern Baptist churches, and that sort of thing. Feel free to add one.