text: TomQuinn you have an excellent point here. Onc can certainly earn the title of "Bad Catholic" by disagreeing with church teaching, but that does not necessarily make one a "Bad Follower Of Christ". The Church is notorious for putting words into the mouth of Jesus with such authority that it's often difficult for Catholics to tell the difference between the two sources of a given doctrine.Galileo comes to mind.  How could one dare to even suggest that the Sun does not revolve around the earth! Jesus never addressed this issue, but the Church certainly did, and which such ferocity and such authority. And what about all those poor people who went to hell for eating meat on Fridays before the rule was changed?   The "Binding and Loosing Concept" has gone a little too far,but it is certainly would seem convincing if the Church was a ventriloquist and Jesus was a puppet.As you are pointing out, we all need to be intellectually honest with ourselves.  God gave us intellect we need to use it!