Hi Tracy, I'm sorry for your experiences and it should never be that way, the ones like that tend to spoil it for the others. For me it has been the opposite. Some of the kindest people I have come across have been Christians/Catholics and some of the unkindest have been those indifferent to God or Atheistic. It can go both ways.

I think we expect much more of course from Christians and so we should, but we should not judge God or church by those who are not living up to their Christianity or who are human too and are weak and have failings. (as I do). But often people tend to focus on the worst of them and do not mention the good and label God or church under the bad ones.

I am Catholic myself...... There are many believers on here who have shown nothing but kindness, Sandi, Jason, Dawn etc. This website itself is run by a Christian person.

Look at all the Christian/catholic organisations who use their lives to help the poor or sick...the list goes on. I've had friends who do not believe in God and friends who do, I don't judge God by those who fail, nor do I judge that being an atheist is better if that person is kind.

If one focusses only on those who have failed to live up to their Christian belief, then we'll be blinded to the people that are living up to it.