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Comment author: MixedNuts 20 April 2012 11:55:47AM 1 point [-]

Goody! (Unless it won't be online, in which case non-goody.)

Not sure I agree other religions are much prettier—do you mean you find their concepts and perspectives more conceptually aesthetic?

Yes, with the reservation that I don't actually understand your rephrasing.

I think Catholicism is a lot more morally complex than many other religions.

Judaism all the way, baby. I don't actually know all the complexities of Catholicism (can haz link?), but I've been to a Catholic school and grok the general aesthetic of most big brands of Christianity. It likes close obedience to rigid rules (yay!) and submission (meh), hates anything pleasurable (feh) and clever thinking (boo), and drops everything Judaism did like a hot potato (noooo!). This covers the Puritans and Augustine, but apparently not the parts of Catholicism you're talking about. I'm surprised that you think it's complex, because the only thing I really like about the brand of Catholicism I got is that it's simple. Maybe complicated theology like the casuists did?