"The Italians were deeply steeped in Catholicism, but they chose differently."
And you have been given the circumstances in which those choices were made, the main one being that the Church was forced extremely reluctantly to compromise - that situation exists nowhere else - or if it does, show it how it does.
It certainly does not in Ireland, where it took the revelations of decades, possibly centuries of Christian persecution (which you claim does not exist) in the form of child rape to bring about any changes.
You have still not produced one shred of evidence - this is simple mindless repetition.
Respond to the points you have been given and stop repeating meaningless nonsense.
Simple question - is not child rape using the authority of the position of Christian ministers and the protection of the perpetrators, allowing them to continue their "little weaknesses" a form of Christian persecution?
Jim Carroll