If you gave money to the catholic church and found out that they gave away 650 MILLION so the archbishop would not have to testify in a case where he would have came off badly on the stand, would you feel like a sucker?
2007-08-06 12:10:05 · 8 answers · asked by bababooe 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Meg m and Matt are dreaming or are naive. Daver is clueless or slow.
2007-08-07 08:48:02 · update #1
Well look at it this way: those who gave their hard earned money to the catholic cult ended up paying for the "priest's" sexual romp with little boys.
2007-08-06 12:13:28 · answer #1 · answered by CJ 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Most of the money given to the Catholic Church (or at least the one I go to) helps to pay for mission trips, food drives, payments on the thrift store my church opened, renovations and additions, new furniture and bills, priests salaries. All of the whole boy loving stuff happened in Europe, where some churches have boys who serve the priest all the time and live in the churches quarters. The sick priests who did so wanted some form of sex since they could not get married (one of Pope John Paul II's rules he made during the time he was Pope).
2007-08-06 12:19:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
i dont think that jesus went around with a basket asking for money.. or did he have a church or a big car to get to church in... or suits too wear to church ,,,or a big house with lots of food ... no he didnt have these treasures... he went too the people and spoke where ever he could and i think thats how it should be today .........religion is a big money maker now and everyone uses it for that .........sure you can go to church for food they will give it too you.. but thats only a drop in the bucket of what there maken ....its really ashame too have religouse leaders doing the things they do molestation-greed -racism - its ll in our churchs of all kinds when will it stop? never most likely ..........
2007-08-06 12:31:27 · answer #3 · answered by starglowshady 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't give my money to religious rackets of any kind.
It always struck me as wrong that preachers, who don't really do any work for a living, ask those making a tiny fraction of their income to subsidize their workless lifestyle.
2007-08-06 12:12:49 · answer #4 · answered by Minh 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, because the vast majority of the money I donated stayed at the parish level, while much of the settlement money came from insurance.
2007-08-06 12:14:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Out of court settlements are not uncommon, and they can happen only with the approval of all parties involved.
So what's your beef?
2007-08-07 00:52:03 · answer #6 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The priests should be excommunicated from the church.
2007-08-06 12:15:19 · answer #7 · answered by killy gonso 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I make it a rule to never give money to fanatics. But if I had, I'd be pretty pissed right now....
2007-08-06 12:15:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋