I felt like Calvin in your avatar after reading this post. If you quit coming here because of a few comments that you don't agree with you might want to consider moving to a country that is a theocracy and regulates speech. Do you mean everyone should be gracious to him? or just those that believe in the same version of the Christian god that you do? It almost sounds like you are leveraging your belief upon others. If that brings you comfort that's great. Don't think though that the history of the The Church isn't overly sugar coated and like current versions of biblical texts (gospels, oral tradition, or otherwise...) doesn't suffer from a great deal of revisionist history. That's just funny. Actually I believe there was a point in time (maybe medieval) where the church as part of the government did require tithing as law in the form of taxes. This is full of fail. While I agree there was a small number of priests that were/are involved in this sort of thing and I also agree that the media helped blow it up a bit, it's well known that the church did not turn over everyone involved and there were priests shuffled and incidents covered up. A few bad apples do spoil a bunch sometimes, but it doesn't help when the organization helps cover up such things. To add, there's a big difference between the student teacher "scandals" and what happen with the priests. I'm not going through the effort to start discussing biblical quotes and their context. This is called a an ad hominem, otherwise known as a logical fallacy. You're attacking the person as opposed to the argument. It's one of the poorest forms of response. We just reply to you then by saying, "We shouldn't listen your opinion on the Catholic church since you are Catholic. You can't believe that a follower of that religion could give an unbiased opinion can you?" Jesus hung out with his buddies and the whores all the time, what can be more fun than that!??! Because they say so right? Let's set aside the fact they can't even pinpoint Jesus' actual existence historically, because there are no other records of it other than the bible. Don't bother bringing up rediculous, discounted sources such as Flavius Joseph, Tacticus or the Acts of Pilate.