Y’know… in looking through all their links, I can guarentee that you are going to see or have already seen some of this rhetorical trash posted to us here and other Catholic forums. I saw several pages that I recognized from answering them. It’s worthwhile to note where ya saw them, (I have a special bookmark folder labeled “Anti-Catholicism and crazy teachings” just for storing this stuff so I can go back and see where they actually got it from and then refute it. It almost always turns out that they have not checked the veracity of the info they post, (Like the trash that Former Catholics for Christ uses for their posters. I think they really are a hate group, and it’s a shame.) so many people will believe just about anything…and especially anything bad that they hear or see about the Catholic Church without asking for the sources. If you look into the sources, you always find bias and and agenda-driven assertions that are either gross distortions of the truth, (like the inquisition numbers that you hear, which would have depopulated Europe at that time if true), or are just outright lies that offer no corroboration because none exists. You can hunt til your brains fall out and never find anything but the quoted statement from the guy who said it…meaning that he’s it. It never happened, but someone believes it because he said it.
Some people conveniently forget the Biblical standard for testimony:
Deuteronomy 17:6 By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he die that is to be slain. Let no man be put to death, when only one beareth witness against him.
Deuteronomy 19:15 One witness shall not rise up against any man, whatsoever the sin or wickedness be: but in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall stand.
Matthew 18:16 And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand.
2nd Corinthians 13:1 Behold, this is the third time I am coming to you: In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word stand.
Hebrews 10:28 A man making void the law of Moses, dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses:
Pax vobiscum,