[QUOTE="sigh-_-"][QUOTE="toxic_jackal"]

I am a Roman Catholic. I would vote for the most part, yes. While the Catholic Church (why are we specifically looking at the RCC? What about Christianity in general?) has done some bad things in the past, I would vote it has done more good. Just because some people have done bad things doesn't mean I'm going to stop being Catholic. A priest that molests a child is not the "Catholic Church." I think this was a rather badly worded topic. Wouldn't it make sense to say "On balance, have Roman Catholics been a good thing?" While I am Roman Catholic, I am not the "Roman Catholic Church." I think the OP should have addressed us as individuals, not the Church as a whole (meaning we are all good or all bad).

To top things off TC, what have you contributed to society that is good?

LJS9502_basic

I am a Roman Catholic. I would vote for the most part, yes. While the Catholic Church (why are we specifically looking at the RCC? What about Christianity in general?) has done some bad things in the past, I would vote it has done more good. Just because some people have done bad things doesn't mean I'm going to stop being Catholic. A priest that molests a child is not the "Catholic Church." I think this was a rather badly worded topic. Wouldn't it make sense to say "On balance, have Roman Catholics been a good thing?" While I am Roman Catholic, I am not the "Roman Catholic Church." I think the OP should have addressed us as individuals, not the Church as a whole (meaning we are all good or all bad).

To top things off TC, what have you contributed to society that is good?

toxic_jackal

[QUOTE="sigh-_-"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]I know what this thread is about...and I still find it offensive.LJS9502_basic

[QUOTE="sigh-_-"]I'm happy to consider positive feelings axiomatically good and negative feelings axiomatically bad, and it thus follows that any action which increases total positive feelings is good and any action which decreases total negative feelings is bad. This is, of course, independent of social mores.R_Dawkins