jwaneeta

You've got to understand: it isn't the pomp of the Roman Catholic Church that puts me off. In the right doses, I like pomp. I have to -- I'm an artist and it's aesthetically pleasing.

I owe my bits of creative skill to the Church, by a remove; if it weren't for Popes and patronage I never would have had books to check out of the library, and I never would've learned how to paint. I like, I love, I live by Western art.

And I love the (totally hidden, deliberately obscured) mystical tradition. I love the Eucharist. I would, in fact, confess that Jesus Christ is Really Present in the Eucharist, at gunpoint: I have reasons to know it's so.

But this chasm between what the Church does and what I believe is no longer supportable. It's dishonorable, and I haven't found a single person who can answer my questions. If I cared less, it would be okay. But I care intensely and it's not bearable. It's been seven years.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/quaker.htm

Isn't that a good write up? I'm going to a Quaker meeting. Pray for me.