The Catholic Church is a bad thing

Ok, I'm just going to touch on a few things here, mainly having to do with how other religions also must be considered evil if the Catholic Church is evil. I would like to clarify that I do not believe any religion is inherently evil, just that if the Catholic Church is evil than all religion must be evil. I'll try to keep this one shorter than my last argument. I'll stick to the three most well-known religions: Judaism, Islam, and Protestantism. Firstly, Judaism. A common stereotype of Jews is that they are selfish and obsessed with money, where this stereotype is not necessarily correct, all stereotypes come from somewhere. This comes from a message in the Torah reading "The possessions of the righteous are as dear to them as their bodies. " In all religions, verses from Holy Scripture can be contorted massively. What this verse is trying to say is that people who have rightly earned what they own, should hold those things closely. This teaching is obvious, if you rightly own something, then it ought to be yours. However, this passage was taken to promote miserliness and led to a good percentage of that population to be associated with greed. I would like to clarify, I do not believe Jews are obsessed with money, but it has been a problem before. I would not take this flaw of some Jews and use it to condemn the whole religion. . http://www.cross-currents.com... Let's move on to Islam. Islam can be considered a religion in the modern age for obvious reasons, radicals rape, murder, and steal from innocents every day. Again, I believe many modern-day Muslims are very good people, only these extremists have butchered their name. However, Muhammed himself married a six-year-old girl, and consummated the marriage when she was only nine. He did this roughly around when he was 44. Muhammed had sexual relations with a prepubescent girl, as a middle-aged man, this certainly make Muhammed seem of questionable morality. However, the followers of his religion should not be automatically considered evil for this. . http://www.faithfreedom.org... Lastly, Protestantism. It may seem odd that I include Protestantism as this group of religions is also Christian. However, as I have previously stated, I do not believe any of these religions are inherently evil. Protestants were responsible for the deaths of thousands of Catholics, and the destruction of hundreds of churches and thousands of pieces of art in those churches. Due to Protestants (Puritans to be precise) Massachusetts, hundreds of people who were believed to be involved in Satanic worship, were executed by the court at Salem. And beyond that, Catholics were persecuted in England for hundreds of years after Henry VIII instituted the Church of England. William Shakespeare himself is believed to have been a Catholic, yet secretly because of persecution. Henry VIII had his friend and advisor, Thomas More, executed for not accepting Henry VIII as the head of the Church of England. And Henry himself only wanted to form the new Church because the Pope would not approve of his divorce. . http://www.history.com... . http://politicalvelcraft.org... . http://www.biography.com... Now I would just like to clarify, I do not think these religions are evil, in fact I know great people in these religions. My point was just that if you are going to accuse the Catholic Church of being evil, then you also have to accuse these religions of being evil.