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Catholic membership is being affected by the Church's own abuses, child-molestation being the latest.

When the Pope discovers what science already knows, such as that all embryos begin as female, requiring, for a complete male, that both the brain AND the body must be masculinized (else gay or lesbian), then it will be another mistake, as in the past when it was thought that evil spirits caused physical ailments (as well as mental, i.e, the Devil).

Islam is growing, even passing the Catholic numbers, but seems headed toward a horrific demise. Their extremists interpret Allah as approving the slaughter of innocents. History is full of such movements and they all became history.

The Jewish seems somewhat friendly, although at great odds with the Catholics and the Islamics, ignoring the very pillar of Christianity: Jesus.

(Chazzy, I have a feeling that you were just going to put something into this thread.)