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***Without attempting to comment further on the entirety of the statements in your post, I think I finally can understand your animosity, (if that is the correct term), towards Christianity and your inevitable switch to a reliance on science rather than God. A thorough study of the history of the Catholic Church, from its' inception and into present day, as well as the teachings they continue to espouse, (not to mention the pedophilic rapists they continue to protect), begs the question......."Why do so many continue to follow Rome?" Had I been raised in the Catholic Church, I might very well be standing at your side, promoting the virtues of science over the vicissitudes of Catholicism in particular, and Christianity in general. In order to stave off unwarranted comments from any Catholics who may become offended, I acknowledge that the Catholic Church is not alone in their bastardization of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.
funny thing is the catholic church DECIDED what was included and what was exluded from the bible. Regardless of Roman Catholic, Orthodox Christian, or Protestant, all the teachings come from the same place, a book put together by the Church. The Catholic Church, which ultimatly represents all christians, is a corrupt, lieing, deceitful organization that will do or say whatever it needs to in order to maintain its power. Abstinance was enforced soley for this reason, the christman tree, the very DATE of Christs birth also shows this, so many "catholic" things are extremely non-catholic. In fact the very substance of the catholic religion is based upon an event that very likely never happened, but without it the religion fails(the ressurection). Without the ressurection you do not have catholics, you have jews who followed a lunatic from an extremist jewish cult(Nazerians were an ultra orthodox religious cult).
Also we have this.. the meek shall inherit the earth.. I dont remember the added footnote that reads as long as they are practicing catholics who have embrased jesus. That is some *loving* god.. who incedentilly ordered the execution of the Canaanites and the Philistines, endoresed the death of children that were not jewish and all around was not such a peacefull, fun loving god that Jesus claims him to be.
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