In my 67 years, 20 of which were spent traveling and working around the world, I have seen enough of organized religion to know that anything they give away comes with many strings attached. Granted their schools may give one a reasonable education but it comes at the price of having their form of science and morals force fed to very young and vulnerable.

How could you trust any institution that has a history of things like the crusades and the inquisition, the persecution of Protestants in the middle ages, hundreds of years of child abuse and church sanctioned protection of the abusers, support of the Nazi regime, the selling of indulgences, and not to mention hundreds or years of bilking the poor and gullible.

I live in a relatively poor and highly catholic (Hispanic) area of Texas. I see the catholic church at work every day and it is not a pretty sight. They convinced their members that the only way to heaven is through their doors and you can only get those doors opened by popping out kids ten to the penny and giving more than you can afford. Now if the parishioners get some sort of solace and peace from this scam it is all well and good but don't come mister righteous and pious to me about how yours is the true and only to heaven.