Thursday, March 3, 2011

A Conversation with my one British friend: JPII and Catholicism.

The other week I was having lunch with my one (British) (Muslim) friend, and I was talking about JPII's questionable relationship with molestation cover-ups, or at the very least inaction on the subject.

"So how can you be a Catholic?", he was like.

When I said I really wasn't one, he was like, "But no, you are, it's your religion, I thought. I'm surprised that you don't say that not all Christians are like that, that it's not really a religion of abuse and terror, that there are many good Christians out there and you shouldn't judge them all by a few bad apples - you know, all that. I find spiels like that quite handy and I always have them ready."

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