Debate: Is Christianity a healthy thing to believe in?
Side: no it isn't

When someone has to resort to expletives and insulting crassness, it usually means that they secretly know that they are losing the battle. You don't have much more to say, do you? You're like a cheap tabloid newspaper with a huge lewd picture on the front and a tiny, insignificant article inside.All the Catholic Church did was shield themselves from criticism. We cannot-- ironically-- allow religion to become a sacred cow. Our Age of Reason says that all ideas may be criticized, but the Church is trying to go back to a time in which religion was omnipotent and unchallengeable. This is deeply wrong; the Vatican is a government and we have allowed it to become a quasi-dictatorship. Religion promotes absolute laws and absolute laws lead to arbitrary arrest and bureaucracy. Just look at the Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt not kill". There's no accounting for anything, let alone taste. What about self-defense, or the age-old trolley problem? When religious views influence government, the implicit implication is that some views are more important than others. This cannot be implied by a democracy. You want more evidence that there was a cover-up? Take a look at this: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/us/27wisconsin.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Here in Britain, the Equality Act 2010 (full text as of posting this can be found here:http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15) requires equal treatment in access to employment as well as private and public services, regardless of the protected characteristics of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, SEX [emphasis mine], and sexual orientation. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_Act_2010). I presume that similar laws exist in the US. The Catholic Church is providing a public service and therefore must not discriminate against any members of the public it is serving as per separation of church and state. Either the Catholic Church stops providing public services or it stops discriminating. In discriminating against women on no rational basis but rather the very unchangeable fact that they are women, the Catholic Church is breaking the law. Yes, the Catholic Church is a government, but it is also an organization and cannot discriminate.I agree that legally and politically you are governed by the POTUS, Senate, House of Representatives, Congress etc. The Catholic Church is not a government in the sense of it running a country (although it does rule Vatican City so I guess it is ruining-- I mean ruling a country). It is a theological government in the sense that it is technically ruling all Catholics; as I have shown, it is flawed and fallible like any other government.I wouldn't be complaining if the Catholic Church had a legitimate complaint about homosexuality. However, by singling out homosexuals just for being gay, the Catholic Church are acting like a bunch of schoolyard bullies. One of the great beauties of information is that it is malleable. No piece of information remains the same-- we are always playing Chinese whispers with it, adding to it and subtracting from it. Even if the text remains the same, the interpretations differ. We have forgotten the biblical laws about shellfish and mixed fabrics; why can we not forget the biblical laws about gender and LGBT people? A law which is used by the majority to bully the minority is sick, simply sick. Besides, being gay is perfectly natural. During pregnancy, a woman's body often sees the male fetus as a foreign object and tries to femanise it. Over time, the woman becomes more adapt at this, meaning that the more brothers a man has the more likely he is to be gay. When one monozygotal (identical) twin is a gay man, the other twin is homosexual 70%+ of the time. Results like this would not occur if genes played no role (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYMjXucTFaM). In the end, any concept that is open to interpretation can be used for bad purposes and religion is one of the vaguest concepts of all. "Belief in a God" could mean anything from Mother Teresa to the KKK and Hitler.