Catholicism in general is paganistic, ritualistic idolotry

[ziggytrix]

No parent can speak for a child's soul. It seems rather difficult to get that thru your skull, but then, presumably, you have been taught this from a very early age (another way of saying this is indoctrinated, but that has ugly connotations).

It just seems rediculous, unless you believe that entire households are saved by the baptism of the head of the household, which wouldn't be so odd in a Romanic tradition, but the Christian tradition should be based on the Bible, and not on the practices of the old men who used to have the only copies of it.

Jesus said, "No man may come to the father, but by ME." He did not say anything about the intercession of any body of clergy. Especially not some group of old men that credit the existence of their vocations to when Jesus called Peter a rock.


edit: To Vince, Please, by all means, BRING IT. If you have ANYTHING to say that is not just parroting something your priest has told you. IF you have a single, independant thought in your head regarding the Chruch, I'd love to hear it.