Life isnt about being happy.

The problem is I don’t know if being gay or not will make my life better or worse. The only guide I have is the Bible

Hedonism is.

Christianity is about filling your life with purpose and helping others until your finally released from this cruel world in your prison of flesh.

I don’t know.
You have agenda and I should decide for myself.

Being gay will not make your life better, it will only fill it with being gay. There will be some good gay times and bad gay times later. Likewise with God. There is no magic choice that makes your life free of pain and full of happyness.

That’s why it is good to be catholic. We have a book called the “catechism” which explains the truths of our faith and the Bible.

The only people who promise riches, happyness and a life that is perfect are con men.

I dont think being catholic makes you better (if anything it makes you more compliant to the scandals) but I can say that God, (not the pope) can make your life filled with less suffering and emptyness than without him.

And there is no one denomination that will perfectly fit you either. What will perfectly fit you is a good church.

Not trying to start a fight with my dear Protestant brothers and sisters, just trying to say there are other resources for how to be a Christian than the Bible out there.

There are many prayers

Some people love being Lutheran, some prodestant, baptist, non denominational or even catholic.

again, YOU choose what best works for you.

Yes the media love to attack the Catholic Church in particular

For justified reasons.

Yes it is terrible

There are many good Catholics though. There are also good Protestants

It must be what Christ felt when he knew Judas would betray him

Yes, there are good ones to every side.

Like the old adage "Not all women are whores, but all whores are women."

Jokes aside

You are at a crossroads Bluepill.

and you are going to have to come to grips with the fact that what you want and what God wants are different. And your going to have to make a choice one way or the other. You cant sit on the fence on some issues.

That’s not quite a perfect analogy. Because there is a lot of abuse in other denominations as well. It just doesn’t get the same publicity.

As the bible says, you cannot server two people at once, you will always pick one first and then the other.

It also isnt usually covered up by the pastors/leadership of those churches in the same way the catholic church falls in line with whatever the pope says even if he is the one covering.

Not whatever the pope says. The pope has his own opinions. When he speaks infallibly, it is only in a very particular circumstance. And the reason is it more systemic is because the Catholic Church is a bigger “system”. Abuse in smaller autonomous churches are covered up by other means. Like for example not wanting to lose parishioners or other reasons.

Gotta keep them subscribers, can have a scandal right now.

But in my own opinion, this pope is a particularly bad one. There have been bad pipes before, but this is really bad

Right

Good, we agree the management is rotten.

outside of management, they do good things here and there.

It provides the most money to charity annually, and there is really good theology there, if you look at it

I think Bluepill is making his choice one way or another.
And hey if you choose the gay lifestyle, thats fine man. Only you can live your life. And if you pick God, great. But if you think you can take both and serve them at the SAME time, thats the only time we are gonna not be able to agree on things.

Eh except most charities are fronts to siphon funds these days.

Show me a mainstream charity and I will show you where about an 8th of whats given actually makes it to the poor.

Food for the Poor

Heh, ive actually had a friend who had expired cans of food from those charities before when she was down on her luck.

There are some corrupted charities the church hasn’t caught onto yet. Like the CRS fund

You have friends in Haiti?