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[Arryn]

Originally posted by Boron:
the main problem with the catholic church i have is that they are the most "aggressive" big world religion . they evangelise still intolerant .

However, almost all "evangelical" Groups, be they Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish, or even Hindu, are intolerant. Kinda makes you wish the world had only one faith: Buddhist. Ever seen an evangelical Buddhist monk? I haven't.

fanaticism is evil .

Yes, it is. In any form. Especially PETA.

just look at bin laden . but the muslim faith is in general more tolerant bin laden is only a sect which isn't even tolerated by the muslim leaders while the catholic church seems to me much more fanatic and they tolerate , even support extreme and almost violent catholic sects .

Can you name an "extreme" Catholic sect that exists *today*? (And cite examples of what makes them "extreme" and "almost violent".)

Disregarding small Groups of disaffected people such as hard-core IRA, Orangemen, fanatical Israelis (the aforementioned three Groups mainly being about matters of tradition, vengeance, or land-ownership and not about religious differences), and the occasional sociopathic Christian anti-abortionist, can you name me any Judeo-Christians that go around blowing themselves up? Or brutally murdering hostages in the name of God? I don't think so. Not even Serbs and Croats commit their atrocities for the sake of their faith. Only practicioners of Islam have this reprehensible practice today. The rest of the world became, more or less, civilized and ceased such things as crusades, inquisitions (if we ignore the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security), and burnings-at-stakes. Despite all that you can say about Islam being a peaceful religion, a far larger percentage of its followers remain stuck in medieval barbarism than do the followers of any other religion. Please explain why this is so ...