Posted: Jan 23, 2011 3:24 pm
Nicko wrote:It does seem confusing at first when one looks at all of these apparently inconsistent and hypocritical decisions by the RCC. The confusion vanishes, however, when one realises that it is not the goal of the church to protect people from harm, or make their lives better. The goal of the Church is to protect the church.
This is not to say that there are not individuals within the church who adhere to something that a normally sane individual might recognise as morality. The thing about propaganda is that people believe it. The character of the institution as a whole,however, is that of a political organization. Once you understand that it is about power rather than morality (as are virtually all political considerations) then these decisions all start to make sense.
That’s it in a nutshell. I couldn’t agree more with you.
When one looks at their entire history it’s enough to make even the most hardened heart soften. The history of their barbarity, cruelty, complete disregard for human suffering, the infliction of the most barbaric methods of torture upon innocent people… well the list goes on and on.
Looking at it from the perspective of a loving god’s church makes one stand aghast and scratching their head as to how they could have even thought of such barbarities, let alone commit them.
Every day, every single day they go against everything that Christ taught without so much as missing a beat and yet the vast majority of Catholics seem to take no notice of that.
But, remove the idea of a god, remove the idea of a church that was founded by Jesus himself, and turn it into a lucrative business, and of course, (previously held) absolute power over life and death… and it makes perfect sense.
The sad part is that despite their unmitigated evil, billions follow them (and have followed them) as if they’re a shining beacon of decency and good in a world of evil. What most believers don’t seem to grasp is that much of the evil in this world has come from the very church that they look to for moral guidance.
If their history was a work of fiction and were it to be published today, it would probably fall flat and certainly wouldn’t make the best-seller list, it would simply stretch one’s imagination too far.
And yet its true and is accepted without so much as even a smile or a smirk on any believers’ face.