[citation][nom]mlopinto2k1[/nom] The beauty of religion is that it lets people believe that there are better plans for them then this crap shoot we call earth which has only been getting worse.[/citation]
That is a cop out. Religion is responsible for much that ails the world today. Haiti is Catholic and one can't help but blame the Church for their doubling population over a decade, their denuding of the forests, etc. Then there are those kooks overseas who use the Koran to kill innocents. Naw, religion has contributed little to the good of humanity...unless you consider the Crusades as a means of population control.
Blogging the"word" merely belittles it. Do what Jesus said...Pray in the privacy of your closet," or something like that. If religion were a private matter and remained such, then all would be well. But, when people try to convert others then we have problems...problems we could do without.
The Catholic Church needs to get with the program and cease with this "no-birth control" shit. It works fine in developed countries because we just blow them off, but in un-developed countries they are too ignorant to think for themselves and believe the teaching of some celibate old-fart who dresses funny. The church may prosper by the sayings of the Pope, but the world suffers.