There is no valid perspective to be derived from any religion. You can't derive a valid perspective from something which is completely invalid in the first place. You are entitled to hold deluded beliefs without being ridiculed. Propagate those beliefs to other people and you deserve not just ridicule but also utter condemnation. You simply do not have the moral right to tell children or anyone else that there is an entity that made the world and that stands in judgement of you, or any other interpretation couched in foggy language you care to propose, without having a scrap of evidence that it exists. I don't know whether there's a God or not, but, unlike you, I'm not going to go around telling people that he's there and that he's made the moral code that I live by. There is another way and it's the right way. There is no truth in a pack of lies. As for your softly-softly language about the Church and how much people ignore it, that's just bollocks and you know it. The people who ignore the rules are the millions like me who haven't parked their arses on a pew for decades. The Catholic Church still has powerful dominion over hundreds of millions of people, mostly in third-world countries in which it is solidly backed up by conniving states in enforcing its extreme illiberalism. We're talking about some of them in this Zika thread, aren't we. Your Church is responsible for millions of abortions, legal and illegal, all over the world, yet refuses to accommodate the teachings and practices that would drastically reduce unwanted pregnancies. That's just wicked.