"I think that for the most part, zombies are born, not made "
Down the centuries religion has been taught as spiritual blackmail - if you don't believe, you are a sinner and will suffer eternal damnation - say this is not the case if I am wrong.
In Catholic communities, right up to comparatively recently, religion has been driven into children from birth, the methods used include physical violence in the form of beating, humiliation (including that of young children) and ostracisation, encouraged and sometimes enforced by the Clergy - feel free to challenge this also, if it is not a fact.
It is contemptible to ignore this fact and blame "zombies" for being zombies.
Despite the fact that large numbers of the clergy have been found to have sexually abused children in their care over a long period of time, at least, throughout the 20th century, and the Church has colluded in those crimes by covering them up and moving the culprits on to other parishes when their crimes became too obvious, enabling them to continue their abuse, the church is fighting tooth and nail to continue to have access to children, physically and mentally.
When you claim that Catholics have recently become 'open season' - you are implicating every believer in the crimes of the church, just as those who defend crimes by claiming they are "Jewish", and those criticising them are "Antisemitic".
Just as a great many critics of Israel's policy are Jewish, the vast majority of critics of the Catholic church's behaviour are Catholics.
If things carry on the way they are, that will no longer be the case - you will have alienated believers from their religion.
Jim Carroll