What people here who demand Catholics leave their church don't understand.

[Egalitarian Thug]

95. Coincidentally, you raise a subject I'm reexamining right now.

Have you read The Evolution of Consciousness by Ornstein? If not, I'd recommend it. I think it ties into this topic because of this ongoing, worldwide conflict of mythologies and the end of, in practical terms, human evolution. In it deals with how our brain likely came to be and more importantly, how it really works.

We are the only animal on earth capable of self evolution, and ironically that capacity makes natural evolution less likely as that same capacity ensures that we will not survive long enough for the natural process to matter.

I don't begrudge anyone their mythology or fantasy of any variety, but I do draw the line at their insistence that I accept them as being anything more than fantasy, let alone allow then to impose them into my life. This whole argument boils down to one small sect demanding universal respect for their detrimental, offensive meddling on a societal level based on nothing but their wishful thinking and gullibility.

Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, or Hindu, it doesn't matter except insofar as the willingness of their adherents to resort to force, physical or otherwise, to impose their beliefs on others creates suffering and especially ignorance.