I dunno about picnic lunches, Bill - but if you're Catholic, you get to have Friday night fish frys, with beer.
-Joe Offer-

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Shambles sez:

It is surely possible to have a relationship with God, to seek what is beyond us and have faith - without being a member of or accepting the tenets of any organised religion?

Certainly, Shambles - but if one shares belief and wants to be a member of a religious denomination, why not? And if one is choosing to join, is a 15th Century Inquisition particularly relevant to the choice, or should the basis of the choice be based on the current activities of the organization?

Believe me, Shambles, no Catholics praise the Spanish Inquisition, not even the right-wing Spanish Opus Dei demagogues. They may not use verbiage that you consider sufficently contrite, but you'll never hear words of celebration for the Spanish Inquisition. I'll agree that if you quoted him correctly, I might have wished the priest on TV to be more clear in his condemnation of the Spanish Inquisition - but the fact remains that Catholics don't applaud the Inquisition, and haven't for centuries.

-Joe Offer-