You were presenting an argument but now you have resorted to sarcasm so there is not much else to say is there?

Thanks, Dr. phanto. I’ll add that one to the list.

<<We should add to that your pathological self-absorption and concern for what others think about you.>>

After all, each accusation diminishes in believability every time you add another one.

In what I now dub the ‘Phanto False Monochotomy’ (Don't you feel special now?), where you present the most offensive and denigrating possibility as being the only possibility, you have excluded other the other possible motivations for my actions, some of which I mentioned.

As for Paul's reasonable request, I'm not surprised that you refuse to co-operate. After all, what you (as OLO's self-appointed moderator) consider to be acceptable discussion is somewhat arbitrary, isn't it? It depends more on who is making the argument than what is being said. I mean, there are plenty of others on OLO to whom you could apply your amateur psychology, given the content of the discussions they start, and yet don't because you reserve that for those who (for whatever reason) rub you the wrong way.

Now, back to my question that you (unsurprisingly) seem keen to avoid:

Just how exactly would an overwhelmingly positive experience with the Church, such as mine, inspire an alleged bitterness?

Philips:

I think you are lying about it being an 'overwhelmingly positive experience' so there is not much point in discussing it with you.

I knew you’d go there, phanto.

<<I think you are lying about it being an 'overwhelmingly positive experience' ...>>

So I prepared these links in advance:

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=15995#277436 (11 February 2014)

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=7032#215483 (15 October 2015)

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=18201#325584 (1 July 2016)

In the first two, I mention my activities in the Church which, as I noted to Foxy earlier (http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=7844#242358), are not the kinds of things people do when their experience of the Church is bad.

In the third link, I also note how joyous those times were for me.

Of course, I could have just done all that in anticipation that you would one day accuse me of lying about how good my church-going days were.

But you’re not quite THAT predictable.

Like I said I think you are lying and that is all I need to know.

Having been a lifelong atheist I'm not a particular fan of any church. However, I'm not blind to the good that they do and the large number of people that donate their money and time selflessly, even to the point of helping out with Salvation Army collections myself.

While the Catholic church has had many despicable priests, and their handling of the issue has been self-serving, the education and care for the less fortunate hundreds of thousands cannot be forgotten.

I also note that the most rabid critics of the church are often those defending Islam against any criticism.