Something to think about...
We often perceive the Roman Catholic Church as holy and divine, thus infallible. But Fact is Divinity can never be a property of humanity and there is no measurement for divinity (either you are divine or not, there is not such an adjective as diviner or divinest). the church in all its greatness is not infallible, and certainly neither is the Pope. Only Jesus can be regarded as an oxymoron called human divinity. Since He was both human and God. With God being the crucial value on the equation, nothing else in this world can be considered divine.
We often neglect to see the gruesome and heinous aspect of church history. Children have always been taught that Christians were prosecuted and killed. They have been ousted out of their lands, fed to the lions, etc. but what they never tell them is that the church also prosecutes and even kills people. Muslims and Jews were tortured to believe in Christianity during the Spanish inquisition, countless Muslims were killed in the name of God during the Holy Wars. Women were burned at the stake and called witches, mistress’ of satan by the church. Even today, the Catholic church condemns every member of freemasonry (even though their belief of one God, social obligations and contributions to society are quite similar).
I ‘m not saying though that your priest, pastor or rabbi are hypocritical spawns of hell. They are certainly much more knowledgeable on topics concerning theology. But take everything with a bit of salt. Try to find out for yourself if what they tell you is true. Even if it was the Pope who tells you “your fly is open”, you’d still have to take a look down below to check if it is in fact open before you close the zipper.
We often neglect to see the gruesome and heinous aspect of church history. Children have always been taught that Christians were prosecuted and killed. They have been ousted out of their lands, fed to the lions, etc. but what they never tell them is that the church also prosecutes and even kills people. Muslims and Jews were tortured to believe in Christianity during the Spanish inquisition, countless Muslims were killed in the name of God during the Holy Wars. Women were burned at the stake and called witches, mistress’ of satan by the church. Even today, the Catholic church condemns every member of freemasonry (even though their belief of one God, social obligations and contributions to society are quite similar).
I ‘m not saying though that your priest, pastor or rabbi are hypocritical spawns of hell. They are certainly much more knowledgeable on topics concerning theology. But take everything with a bit of salt. Try to find out for yourself if what they tell you is true. Even if it was the Pope who tells you “your fly is open”, you’d still have to take a look down below to check if it is in fact open before you close the zipper.
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