I'm just using Catholicism as an example because it happens to be a very flagrant example. I also happen to know more than a little about it as I was raised under that religion and went through MANY of the rituals. I was an altar boy [let me know when you stop laughing ], went through Baptism (twice, but that's another story), First Communion, Confirmation and my first marriage through the Church.

I have no hatred towards Catholicism. My 'hatred' is for those *individuals* who shelter child rapists and do so hiding behind the institution of the Church. I have no hatred for Christians in general. Heck, two weeks ago I *married* a devout Christian.

I've tried repeatedly explaining, for example, that it's the double-standard that gets my blood going - and using the Catholic Church as an EXAMPLE of it. But no matter HOW many times I say that, people insist that I'm *really* saying something else.

How would you like it if you were explaining yourself and people ignored you only to tell you what you REALLY meant? It's *very* frustrating.

I'll put it to you this way. Do I want to see Catholicism abolished? No. Not at all. There are, however, a lot of people wearing robes that I would like to see in prison.