Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.