Recently, I saw a very interesting video on Youtube called, "Where are the Catholics?" Speaking on the video was a man who could only be described as a Catholic fanatic, calling Catholics to arms, to aggressively combat their detractors online and in the media. He blasted Catholics who support people's freedom of speech by tolerating anti-Catholic criticism, and he compared tolerating such criticism to tolerating someone beating up your mother right in front of you. He went on to rant and rave about how the Catholics were being trampled and persecuted, and how they have a monopoly on truth, and damn all secularists, Jews, and Protestants alike. The funny thing is, he doesn't realize he is what we non-Catholics and secularists think of when we think of the rabid Catholic fanatic. Now, I am by no means saying that all Catholics are like this. But Catholics who do not condemn this type of extremist rhetoric are only contributing to the downfall and the further discrediting of their faith. And so, I invite Catholics and all religious extremists like this, to just keep talking, because it only gives the non-religious, and religious non-fanatics, more fuel for the fire.
Just keep talking.
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