Well, it was my understanding that you came here to attack the Catholic Church because you mother rejected the Church in adulthood and spoke negatively to you about it, coupled with the fact that you have a vendetta against the Church for forcing her ancestors into Catholicism 500 years ago. Have I misunderstood your history and intentions?
Now WHERE did you get THAT “understanding”? My mother converted to Judaism when she was 20 years old, and I made it very clear, many times, that she NEVER badmouthed her former faith. I stated that in threads about people who convert out of Catholicism…that she was one of the very few people I ever knew who did NOT see fit to badmouth her former religion, because many people I have known who switched from one faith to another, DID badmouth their former religion.
And no, I did not originally come here to attack the RCC; I came here after finding this site via Google. It was in March, and I was researching the background of certain Holy Week legends my mother had told me about, from her childhood. The websearcj grew out of a family session where we were reminiscing about things our mother had once told us.
As for a “vendetta” against Catholicism, I have none. I do feel very disappointed, because the Catholics forced my mother’s family to convert to Catholicism when they were in Spain and Italy, thereby causing her family to retain some Jewish customs, but basically not even knowing they were Jews until a family genealogist discovered it centuries later (my mother converted to Orthodox Judaism in 1944, and so it amazed her to learn 40 years later that she was Jewish all along!)
In fact, because of my 30 year involvement in Jewish-Christian ecumenical organizations, I had always had very positive experiences with Catholics as an adult. This is why it especially pained me to learn, in the 1980s, of my maternal family’s sad history as conversos from Spain. I had always had great regard for the Catholic church (even though I had known about the Spanish and other Inquisitions), and learning of my own family’s role in it brought it all “home” to me in a personal way.
But you have GREATLY misunderstood my situation. In fact I don’t even know where you got all that from, but it certainly was not from reading my older posts.
Maybe what you should do it research my OLDER posts, from when I first arrived here…in fact if you read them going from oldest to newer, you will see how things went.
(I’m in serious trouble, I don’t know how to play it!)