Based. Too many catholics still cling to their fanfiction that was created to justify a massive power structure, even while they openly acknowledge the pope himself the cardinals being heretical, satanic or at least corrupt as fuck and covering up the pedophile scandals.
The entire catholic system goes against the core message of the bible.
My grandfather, who is an experienced and long-time pastor, entertains there is at least a possibility (if not a decent likelihood) that the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon.
They are the Muslims of Christianity if I'm being honest. People have no idea about their violent past. They had things like forced conversions (as in, the same kind that Muslims had, which is "convert or kill"), massive amounts of violence and authoritarianism (preventing the common person from being allowed to read the Bible, through their clergy/laity hierarchy), they massacred and oppressed much of Christendom quite literally during the religious wars of freedom. They routinely did this sort of thing and schemed to have anyone who disagreed with them killed. They were violent and fanatical and killed what should've been their own brethren, hardly what God wants out of Christians.
They have explicit doctrines that go against Biblical teachings. Their system as a whole, like you said, is just flat-out wrong. Doesn't even get into the messes that are Papal Supremacy, Infallibility, and Primacy, which are quite literally making the Pope out to be some kind of infallible emperor who communes with God.
Combine the fact that the Pope is something ridiculously powerful in the Catholic faith with the fact that, during the time of Martin Luther, the Popes came from the most powerful and richest family in Italy (The Medicis)... its like, what is this joke? Just how corrupt can the Catholic church be?
What I don't get is that is basic history. As soon as one reads the Bible itself it's immediately obvious that NONE of their shit comes from it. There's no pope, nor bishops nor cardinal in the new testament whatsoever. The entire nature of the pope being the intermediary between men and god is contrary to what the bible states.
It's immediately and blindingly obvious as soon as you actually read and comprehend these things - so HOW is NEARLY EVERYONE who talks about these things so fucking ignorant, yet so CONVINCED of their own bullshit? It baffles my mind that people can go off like that just parroting other people's lines, telephone game style.
It's a world full of NPCs. Even in ny edgy atheist days as a child I knew this shit because I actually read the book itself.
Because, I'm being totally honest here, most Catholics are likely ignorant of the Bible.
They are taught these things from their authority figures and don't question it because that's all they've ever known. My grandfather has explained these things to Catholics before and converted them to Christians, they were genuinely shocked because they had no idea, period, even after being Catholics their entire lives.
I suppose these kinds of things are holdovers from their entire history. They don't want the common person to know what the Bible actually says, or else they'd be out of jobs.
The catholics being raised in ignorance is no surprise, but the sheer audacity of the leftist dimwits railing against christianity without ever having read the books or history, yet pretending intellectual superiority, is what gets me worse.
Based. Too many catholics still cling to their fanfiction that was created to justify a massive power structure, even while they openly acknowledge the pope himself the cardinals being heretical, satanic or at least corrupt as fuck and covering up the pedophile scandals.
The entire catholic system goes against the core message of the bible.
My grandfather, who is an experienced and long-time pastor, entertains there is at least a possibility (if not a decent likelihood) that the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon.
They are the Muslims of Christianity if I'm being honest. People have no idea about their violent past. They had things like forced conversions (as in, the same kind that Muslims had, which is "convert or kill"), massive amounts of violence and authoritarianism (preventing the common person from being allowed to read the Bible, through their clergy/laity hierarchy), they massacred and oppressed much of Christendom quite literally during the religious wars of freedom. They routinely did this sort of thing and schemed to have anyone who disagreed with them killed. They were violent and fanatical and killed what should've been their own brethren, hardly what God wants out of Christians.
They have explicit doctrines that go against Biblical teachings. Their system as a whole, like you said, is just flat-out wrong. Doesn't even get into the messes that are Papal Supremacy, Infallibility, and Primacy, which are quite literally making the Pope out to be some kind of infallible emperor who communes with God.
Combine the fact that the Pope is something ridiculously powerful in the Catholic faith with the fact that, during the time of Martin Luther, the Popes came from the most powerful and richest family in Italy (The Medicis)... its like, what is this joke? Just how corrupt can the Catholic church be?
What I don't get is that is basic history. As soon as one reads the Bible itself it's immediately obvious that NONE of their shit comes from it. There's no pope, nor bishops nor cardinal in the new testament whatsoever. The entire nature of the pope being the intermediary between men and god is contrary to what the bible states.
It's immediately and blindingly obvious as soon as you actually read and comprehend these things - so HOW is NEARLY EVERYONE who talks about these things so fucking ignorant, yet so CONVINCED of their own bullshit? It baffles my mind that people can go off like that just parroting other people's lines, telephone game style.
It's a world full of NPCs. Even in ny edgy atheist days as a child I knew this shit because I actually read the book itself.
Because, I'm being totally honest here, most Catholics are likely ignorant of the Bible.
They are taught these things from their authority figures and don't question it because that's all they've ever known. My grandfather has explained these things to Catholics before and converted them to Christians, they were genuinely shocked because they had no idea, period, even after being Catholics their entire lives.
I suppose these kinds of things are holdovers from their entire history. They don't want the common person to know what the Bible actually says, or else they'd be out of jobs.
The catholics being raised in ignorance is no surprise, but the sheer audacity of the leftist dimwits railing against christianity without ever having read the books or history, yet pretending intellectual superiority, is what gets me worse.
Apparently the Vatican just recently ordered all entities that are part of the RCC to move assets to the main Vatican bank.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230307231905/https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252093/pope-francis-instructs-vatican-entities-to-move-all-funds-to-vatican-bank-by-sept-30