Is Mise,
The general term was Roman Catholics or abbreviated to RC. I am aware of various religious orders in the church but am not aware of any other lay people than RCs.

If you are referring to other institutions and religions there certainly are a number of those, but the inquiry dealt mainly with the RC church.

The vast majority of modern mainstream Christians, Jews,
Muslims, are not 'card-carrying fundamentalists.'
Fundamentalists are a tiny minority. Of whatever faith,
a psychologist would be likely to declare them to be of
unsound mind. The same as not all people are violent,
not all men bash women, not all clergy abuse children,
and so on. Not all religious followers believe in the
literal word of the Bible, the Koran or the Torah,
as the rule book for how to live and die.

With all the discussions going on I tried to point out
that there are those who behave badly within any group.
That does not mean that everyone within that group behaves
in that way or is bad.
Of course we should not condone bad behaviour.
At the same time we should not blame everyone within
any group for the bad behaviour of a few within that
group.

What I object to is having
an irrational, inflexible, attitude toward an entire
category of people. People do not all share the same
supposed traits, follow the exact same beliefs, or
behave in exactly the same way.

That's all I have to say.

"The problem, is that now exactly the same and worse is happening in organised Islam, and yet the "progressives" are the ones turning a blind eye to it."
What "exactly" is worse ?

You may wish to peruse this article by Nick Saffran. Nick Saffran is a research assistant at the American Enterprise Institute.

https://thefederalist.com/2017/02/27/terrorism-not-reason-skeptical-muslim-immigration/?ref=yfp

Foxy: What I object to is having an irrational, inflexible, attitude toward an entire category of people.

But, "ALL" men are Wife Bashing/Murdering Misogynistic Pedophiles. Aren't they? Just ask some of the arch-feminists on here.

Anyway the Saffran article is very interesting read pertaining to this Subject.

Dear Jayb,

As I stated earlier. I do not believe in irrational,
inflexible attitudes toward entire categories of
people. The key feature of prejudice is that it is
always rooted in generalisations and so ignores the
differences among individuals.

Foxy: The key feature of prejudice is that it is always rooted in generalisations and so ignores the differences among individuals.

I think most of us know & agree on that, Foxy. You just have to convince the Arch-feminists on here, not us. Their belief is that ALL men are evil without redemption.

Anyway, read that article by Saffron. It a very intelligent & well written article. One of the best I've seen.