Catholicism is disagreeable and offensive.

"Without a symbol it is much harder to spread the word. Though we all are to spread it, with a symbol we are recognized by others and this gets the word out. Popes, Bishops, Cardinals, Priests, all of these help us talk to God and share in our faith." To Christians the symbol is God. They seem to be better off than the Catholics. "I said it's unfair to me and the other devout Catholics who are good people by hating Catholicism when few have hurt you or anyone you know." Who said I hate Catholics? I think they are disagreeable (it doesn't make sense) and is offensive (offends many people). "it's disrespectful to me if you say my "oh-so "awesome" Jehovah"" And you don't explain why. You find half the things I say offensive but you have never explained why. Why? Because it has absolutely nothing to do with the debate. We aren't talking about what me saying is offensive, we are talking about why Catholicism is and is not offensive. Get on with it. "says to respect God" "The Ten commandments were not selfish rules made by God" Wow. "Also when the Bible says 40 years it doesn't mean 40 years just many years." No, it means 40 years. It is just long enough to take off a generation, which is what God wanted and what the adult Israelites had to do. "Honor thy father and thy mother" There can be little exceptions, but I am sure many societies before Christianity had this rule in place, and therefore do not come from Catholicism. "Thou shalt not kill" Your religion of course ignored this one MANY MANY times. "Thou shalt not commit adultery" This one too, with some little boys might I add. You might like this: http://www.bishop-accountability.org... Basically showing how many Catholic Priests have "sexual" accusations against them (and approved by the appropriate governments). Just so you don't have to go through the report, it is 4,392. "Thou shalt not steal" Catholics have stolen before. Buddhism came before Catholicism and Christianity; their books were written before the Godzi: ""...a state that is not pleasing or delightful to me, how could I inflict that upon another?" Samyutta NIkaya v. 353 Christianity must have been desperate to steal from Buddha. "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour" http://orichardcraigo.wordpress.com... "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's" I think we have already established this in stealing and adultery. "Do those seem selfish to you. To me, they sound like good ways to treat others." Okay a few are selfish and useless, but they do seem like good ways to treat others . . . but then again, Catholics have disobeyed every one of them except for the one saying "respect God", and even that is controversial. "Or was it the Jews, the Baptist, the Mormon, and the Catholic who did this? Or was it just the Catholics?" Just the Catholics and the Christians. In the Crusades the Muslims were defending themselves from your attack. Mormons? They weren't around at that time :D Baptist is Christian. And the Jews have nothing to do with it. They don't even completely agree with you. "Generalizations and stereotypes do nothing but assume that there is one like it, it must be them all." But that is what Catholicism is, a generalized sect of Christianity. It is a specific viewpoint to the Bible with beliefs that are specific to Catholicism. All Catholics are meant to be the same by the rules they follow and do. That is why I generalize. Now if we were talking about Christianity then that is a different story. But we are not. Well, my opponent hasn't made any clear cut answer to why Catholicism is NOT disagreeable and offensive. All he has done is reply to my points. Maybe he will do so in the closing arguments (let's hope so to make it at least a more interesting debate). In general this is why I think Catholicism is disagreeable and offensive: 1. General acceptance of disrespect towards the Ten Commandments. (disagreeable) 2. Misinterpretation of the Bible. (disagreeable) 3. The Crusades. (offensive to Muslims) 4. The Witch Trials. (offensive to everyone who was blamed as a witch) 5. The Inquisition. (offended critics of the Catholic Church) 6. The rape and sexual accusations (backed by the governments and the Catholic Church) against Catholic Priests (4,392 of them). Including women and boys. (offensive and disagreeable, clearly) 7. General disrespect the Popes had to society throughout history (disagreeable and offensive) Not much from my opponent on these points to back up his points. He had no sources either. Thanks for the debate, Melvin. And I thank whoever watched this for following it, remember to vote by debate, not by opinion.