All those nice young Christians gathering on a beach in Rio, celebrating reasons to kill nice young Muslims in future decades. Organised religion is usually the basis for mass slaughter, be it tribal beliefs in Africa, crusades, Ulster madness or barmy serial killers saying "God told me to kill hookers".

Everyone choses to ignore the basic reality. Teenagers adored hurting each other. It's fun and real massacres are much more fun than virtual ones in video games.

What an odd species we are.

the Catholic church opposed the Iraq & Afghan wars. Not that anyone took notice.

hedda wrote:
the Catholic church opposed the Iraq & Afghan wars. Not that anyone took notice.

The Brits have never listened to the Church since England was prodified - and look where that got us ! The effects still reverberate in N Ireland.

Notice the huge crowds hedda?

hedda wrote:
the Catholic church opposed the Iraq & Afghan wars. Not that anyone took notice.

Yes Veritas,they were too busy hiding the fact they were involved with little boys!

Pattaya wrote:
hedda wrote:
the Catholic church opposed the Iraq & Afghan wars. Not that anyone took notice.

Yes Veritas,they were too busy hiding the fact they were involved with little boys!

an exageration and not fair to condemn a church with 1.2 billion members because of a few hundred (if that) miscreants.

where would it end ?..should every Brit or Yank be blamed for their government's deeds?...

or perhaps every foreign visitor to Pattaya because it was once a 'pedo' paradise?