Catholicism

(151 votes)   Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(114 votes)   Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!

Robert Browning
1812-1889, British Poet

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(93 votes)   She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.

Source Unknown

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(92 votes)   Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

Matthew Fox

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(80 votes)   The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is ''what should be.'' Now, if you're taught to live up to a ''what should be'' that never existed -- only an occult superstition, no proof of this ''should be'' -- then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

Lenny Bruce
1925-1966, American Comedian

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(79 votes)   It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, -- there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(76 votes)   It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher

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(70 votes)   All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

Anthony Burgess
1917-1993, British Writer, Critic

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(69 votes)   Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Madonna
1958-, American Musician, Singer, Actress,

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(66 votes)   It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

Pope Gregory VII

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(65 votes)   She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

Thomas B. Macaulay
1800-1859, American Essayist and Historian

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(63 votes)   To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Mary Mccarthy
1912-1989, American Author, Critic

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(54 votes)   Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

Eric Gill
1882-1940, British Sculptor, Engraver, Writer, Typographer

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(48 votes)   You can't run the Church on Hail Marys.

Archbishop Paul Marcinkus

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(47 votes)   Coming to Rome, much labor and little profit! The King whom you seek here, unless you bring Him with you will not find Him.

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