> So what if it's not unique to Catholicism? I was asking specifically what the misconceptions are. You've redirected.
As someone who left Catholicism for Wicca and then eventually gave up on religion in general, I think it's valid to point out that these flaws are not unique to Catholicism.
I would say that in pointing at all those things it has done wrong, you are implicitly saying that that these traits are unusual — but we're all a bunch of monkeys, it's really hard to get us to be nice to each other, and it's really easy for Machiavellian sadists to rise to power in every institution.
> I think it's valid to point out that these flaws are not unique to Catholicism.
In what way? Does pointing it out change the facts? Why can't we have a discussion about how Catholicism is objectively hypocritical and not have to discuss all of the other things that are wrong in the world?
In the specific way I wrote in the very next sentence.
You're welcome to point out the flaws and hypocrisies all you like, though I know from my experience as an angry bisexual Wiccan teenager that had to go to a Catholic school and study the bible as part of my education, that it does little good unless you have the goal of looking pompous — especially when the very line you were quoting was
> It makes me immensely sad that people have so many misconceptions about Catholics.
rather than
> It makes me immensely sad that people don't realise Catholics are uniquely perfect.
The former does not imply perfection, nor even an absence of hypocrisy.
