[jamesblonde]

Same here. Although I grew up a Catholic and am now an atheist, my father counselled me that there were few institutions in the world that look after the downtrodden. The Catholic church has often not done that, but under Francis moved more towards that goal than any other time in recent history.

[B1FF_PSUVM]

> look after the downtrodden. The Catholic church

gifted all women indissoluble marriage, which was practiced by the Roman aristocracy as "confarreatio".

This was trashed as soon as possible, and the trashing was billed as great progress.

[make3]

this is terribly inaccurate. they teach gainst using birth control even in poor, AIDS ridden regions (see Mother Theresa in Africa), treat women as lesser beings (including not recognizing that marital rape is a thing), cause the mistreatment of queer and homosexual and trans people, etc etc

[inemesitaffia]

Any Abrahamic religion that teaches otherwise isn't compatible with tradition or scripture period.

Also the condom thing is false. Keep up to date.

[make3]

I don't keep up to date with how slightly less random the fairy tales decided to be this year