I mean no offense to any resident Catholics. I know Faith, by it's nature, isn't logical, but every day I wonder more how people still bring themselves to fund the Catholic Church.
I, like everyone else, need a path. Since I couldn't blindly accept faith as taught in any religion, I had to dig. There was only one way I found faith. It both convinced me of the existence of God, and in practice, worked for me. I had to question the very existence of God. I found His existence through logic. Example: Nothing in this world happens - be it a mutation, something evolving, an atomic bomb exploding, "climate change," grass growing, good or evil, or simply passing gas - that doesn't follow the laws of physics. The author of those laws of physics I call God.
Blind faith is illogical, though it can serve a person well if the doctrine has been inculcated - eh - faithfully. Faith learned through logic can't be lost, can't be bent, won't succumb to evil, and doesn't require blind obedience. You just know it to be right.
As for the Catholic Church, it has been corrupted and can only be cleansed by a lack of funding. The corrupt will have to go elsewhere to ply their insidious deviant behavior, and then the righteous will rise to the top. I believe the same thing needs to be done to cleanse the NRA. Stop the flow of cash and the greedy will go elsewhere and the righteous will rise to the top as well. How does that saying go? Oh, yeah: Money talks and bovine excrement walks.
Woody