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Having been raised Roman Catholic, I appreciate the architecture of the older cathedrals and had a great deal of fun screwing up the mass as an altar boy.
The church is still very popular and I see nothing wrong with people who so choose gathering with the like minded to explore their spirituality and find comfort.
I don't much hold with the notion of having to go through a self appointed representative of the almighty to cleanse the conscience but have no problem with those who do.
Most of the Catholic ritual and trappings are holdovers from that dreary era between the fall of the Roman empire and the enlightenment, when the church was the de facto government in a large swath of Europe.
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Last edited by catswiththum; 09-03-2015 at 10:28 AM.
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