WtFDragon / Member

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Pig-ignorant comment of the week

"Even us christians know that catholics created religion to control the population in babylon."

This is kind of one of those "so dumb I don't know where to start" comments.

The obvious criticism is to point out that a myriad of religions existed prior to the foundation of the Church; Judaism is the most obvious (and, for Christians, relevant) example. The slightly less-obvious historical criticism is to point out that the rise of the Church had a lot to do with Rome, and then Constantinople/Byzantium. Although Christianity -- through Catholicism -- eventually spread into what was in ancient times called Babylon, that was hardly the place where it was founded, nor was reaching Babylon the impetus behind early evangelization.

But really, it might almost be pedantic to even say that much. Anti-Catholic bigotry is not exactly the home of the reasonable or rational.