My hatred stems from the fact that they've been shown to have a long history of covering these crimes up and moving priests around when they commit pedophilia. Aside from that I identify the Catholic church as a very wealthy institution that doesn't visibly do much to improve the lives of their parishioners or anyone. l also dislike the idea of confession being seen as a free pass to forgiveness as I see it. If you do something morally wrong repeatedly and confess repeatedly you aren't taking steps to be a better person, just assuaging your guilt. Further dislike comes from the way the Catholic church has treated single mothers historically which has been pretty atrocious. You can also throw in the fact that historically they've been guilty of profiting from brothels which contradicts both the idea of worshipping money and of non marital sex (before you accuse me of making false accusations watch the documentary "sex and the church").
I don't follow any religion really. I attended church when I was younger and I find that people who are religious are incredibly judgmental of people for petty things when all churches spread the tenet that it's only gods right to judge. But I do see the ten commandments as a decent moral code and I try to live by a moral code.
I don't hate Catholics or people who practice any religion. But I do get sad that religious people can tend to lose logic when you question things that oppose their beliefs.
Funny how you state that religious people tend to lose logic when you question them about their beliefs, if you look closely at you post you may also see evidence that you have lost logic when airing your opinion about Catholicism and Catholics.
I understand that it is not logical for an atheist to accept the existence of God, "I could never count how many times I've heard this said "if their was a God this terrible thing wouldn't have happened", I find it funny that those who make such comments do not take into account the fact that Jesus Christ willingly allowed himself to be crucified.
The problem with some Christians is that they were told about heaven and hell and then want to keep their finger in the pie (so as to speak) in case there is a heaven and a hell. IMHO these people have not gone deep in the Christian faith ie. studying and understanding Christ's life on earth and at least trying to live it. BTW over the years I've known 1 or 2 priests who were not podophiles nor were indulging in sex, but IMHO did not live Christ's life on earth.
I would be very interested to know how you first started on this hate Catholicism thing, perhaps it was one your parents. I've seen many examples of people, as well as established institutions who's only existence is to do as much harm as possible to Catholicism, I can even quote criminal acts designed to harm Catholicism.
In your personal Hatred of Catholicism you made several comments based on your personal hatred.
(1) The church as a wealthy institution, this is as a result of holding on to real-estate for along period of time. The Church finances countless missionaries overseas doing similar work to what Mother Theresa was doing. You say that the Church has no regard for its parishioners, the fact is that the Church runs the St.Vincent De Paul society catering for the poor in our own Country,
(2) As for Confessions the Church teaches that we are all sinners and humbling ourselves a little should help us to become better, in fact we now have a saying that our Church is a hospital for sinners, because it was never intended to be a club for the pious. (I discussed this with a very devout Priest friend not long ago and we greed that a true Catholic/ Christian is one who see him/her self as a work in progress, ie each one of us should try to be a better person today than we were yesterday.
(3) As for the Church profiting from brothels, I find it very hard to believe it has ever happened in Australia, it may have happened in some very very poor Country.
(4) As for treating single mothers badly, I'm 1 of 8 children and while in hospital giving birth to 1 of my younger brothers in the 1955, my Mother noticed how nurses were treating un- married mothers badly, those days having sex outside marriage was taboo by many not only the Catholic Church. Lets not forget that the slogan sex sells has made unfaithfulness, divorce all types of permissiveness, including abortions a free for all, and if the truth was known our Country has suffered because of it.