"when that spirituality is part of a multi-national hoo-hah machine with a long and bloody history of wholesale murder, persecution, execution, and the propagation of deathly compliance then is it not proper to question that? After all, religion is about actively choosing to believe in something, often agressively adminstered when we're too young to know any better.
At the heart of the Catholic Mythos is the The Fall of humanity from some state of happy perfection into that of miserable sin. Then comes The Passion of the Christ which somehow redeems anyone who believes humanity is worthless enough to have justified such pornography. Then comes the Roman Catholic Church persecuting anyone who disagrees with them in the name of a mythological suffering."

Well, you've got me there Suibne.. I have a problem with the abuse of our fellow beings in any form. But it especially stings when those doing the abusing perversely assert some kind of religiously informed superiority over those they abuse as a means to justify their own morally corrupt behaviour. Of course this happens all the time. But it appears to be a particularly fond default for the tribes of Abraham.