VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|HarryR|DATE|1362349832|CONTENT|Has the 1.5 billion figure ever been audited? How would such a task be accomplished? Could it even be theoretically possible without the assistance of the RCC itself as owner and interpreter of the data?

Anyway, misrepresenting its ( assumed fully committed and accepting) membership numbers so as to bolster its claim of some kind of representation would hardly be worse than the other things that have been exposed about its corporatist and contradictory behaviour in recent years.

When I read the Rev&#039;s piece I was going to chortle that while they may have plugged the dam of the unbelievers&#039; ability to formally withdraw voluntarily, they kept to themselves the right to excommunicate those same. Then it was said that this would not exclude them from the church. Is it comparable to a 3 line whip?

Is it correct that no contract can be valid without informed consent? While this could be reasonably assumed if an adult signs how can a new born baby be assumed to have consented and to be so bound for life? I detect the stench of rotting bollocks mixed with humbug.|IP-ADDRESS|89.204.154.239|MODERATIONFLAG|