What REALLY grinds your gears?

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

Based on everything i've read, heard about from my mom (who was raised in a catholic family), and seen in my personal experience, the Catholic Church is more about tradition than anything else. I went to a Catholic funeral and was creeped out by all the ceremony, chanting, incense, etc. It felt more like going to a costume drama from the dark ages than anything resembling a respectful funeral service. The priest in his fancy garb actually said that God killed the deceased to bring lapsed catholics back to church so they could participate in mass. I was disgusted that thats the kind of "comfort" being provided to a grieving family who just watched someone they love suffer through 10 years of painful cancer and die. God did all that so that a few catholics could eat a cracker and have a sip of grape juice? Gee, thanks. If you take the "tradition" away from the Catholic church, i dont know what would be left of it. Smoke signals are all they have.

Ok, i'm done with my rant. I apologize if i offended anyone. I know that my limited experience is not representative of all individual catchloics, many/most of whom are my good, honest, hardworking, redskins living brethren.

I am Catholic; well I was raised Catholic. The majority of family including my parents have just walked away from the church. It is a joke.

Sadly unless they change more and more people are going to walk away from them.