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why is lemmy so anticatholic?
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No logical reason at all?
Without going through a host of historical atrocities, modern day misdeeds and crimes, you could simply look at the global systematic and institutionalized protection of raping of little boys…for centuries. This alone would warrant the hate.
Bet you also wonder why the world hates Israel with a fiery passion too.
false equivalence, strawman
Okay. Guess you’re wondering what the big deal is about the Epstein Files?
The Catholic Church makes Epstein and all of the pedos involved look like JV league amateurs.
I’m really not sure what you expected asking this question in your post. The Catholic Church deserves every bit of hate and more than it currently receives.
I was raised Catholic. Fuck the Catholic Church
I wasnt. I discovered the Faith with Gods guidance.
and cite your sources
Lmao, you can’t be fucking serious. Not gonna spend any more time here explaining this but will leave this
If you’re actually this naïve, try perusing the references located at the bottom of this page. However, I suspect you will discredit it in some manner. Or try to brush off the 165+ sources describing exactly what everybody else is saying here.
A bit of advice? Just accept the fact that the Catholic Church has been fucking little boys in the ass for centuries. This will make it easier for you moving forward, because this topic is absolutely common knowledge.
Neat
So you have psychosis
back to the 1800s "accuse them of insanity when they say something you didnt quite like" technique, I see?
It's just an objective oberservation. No matter if someone tells me they have magical powers, have seen unicorns or believe in god: All of that is stupid and proves something is wrong with you.
God is real, there are a bunch of scientifically proven miracles...
Show me.
You know that blood samples appearing where there are biological creatures around is not scientific evidence for a miracle right?
There's a lot more needed to prove something scientifically.
But to get back to your question: I think a lot of the hate comes from (excluding the kiddy diddling) the exclusion of doubt. There's a lot not yet explained in this world. And we as a society are at the point where everything unexplained doesn't have to be explained to be "Devine" instead. There is so much knowledge we have collected as a species that makes a lot of biblical stories fantasy.
Religion probably was created as an explanation for the unexplained. We see this even more clearly in pagan religions, by them having a god for literally everything. But Christianity and other monotheistic religions are no exception.
Also religion was used to keep plebians in check. Rules were meant to be broken, but since breaking religious rules will have you burn for eternity, there is an incentive to do "right".
Religion was also historically used as the basis for most wars. WW2 is one of the more extreme examples where people of certain religions were view as subhuman. And this is literally used again by Israel today.
These are my reasons for not being theistic.
Christianity was persecuted by Rome in the early days, and for decades, and then by almost every other empire
it is literally human cardiac tissue with the WBCs still alive
dam it, who cut their heart out while it was still beating, and managed to keep the WBCs alive?
and no, "breaking rules" doesnt make you burn in hell, hell isnt even a fire, its the abyss. Jesus Christ died for our sins so we could be free of them IF we have faith. and the rapes were disgusting actions by certain priests that were defended by their diocese, not the Vatican
"Someone brought a sample of something" is not science.
I mean if a holy item suddenly starts growing human cardiac tissue, its a miracle and it was tested, and its human cardiac tissue with the WBCs still alive, meaning its not from.a cadaver
and if testing things isnt science, what is? science by definition is using the scientific method to prove or disprove something
It hasn't been shown that that's what happened though. What has been shown is that someone had a sample of something.
And even if a thing grew human tissue, that's proof of that thing growing human tissue. It takes a LOT more to prove a deity exists.
the host grew ALIVE HUMAN Cardiac Tissue
that is literallly scientifically impossible unless.....
It has not been shown that a host grew tissue, it has been shown that somebody had a sample of human tissue.
You may not have seen my added second paragraph (apologies for editing that in): even if a host grew human tissue, that's highly unusual but not proof of a deity.
Yes, a holy item proclaimed to the be the Body of Christ grows living heart tissue and its not enough proof?
No. If you can prove that's what happened, you've proven that it has happened. You haven't shown that it was caused by a deity. The fact that humans have proclaimed this object to be "the Body of Christ" is not proof.
what proof do you need?
I honestly don't know what could make me believe in a claim as extraordinary as "the god as described by the Christian Bible (or any other religion's scripture) exists" but from all I know about this supposed entity, this god would know what would convince me and would have no issue making it absolutely obvious and inevitable to me.
Parlour tricks like having blood grow on hosts is not it.
God has NEVER peformed a SINGLE miracle so you may believe, only when his followers and companions are in grave need, has he performed a miracle. God cannot convice you if you put your fingers In your ears and go lalalalalalala
Okay. So I suppose he doesn't care if I believe. We're good then :)
he does care
Not enough to go to the trouble of convincing me, apparently. He knows I'm not one to be convinced simply by people telling me about him, he has made me after all, no?
no one, and no amount of proof will magically "convince" you if do not want to be convinced
it is a decision that you must make yourself, and others can only inform you about the choices
You seem to have a very low opinion of your god if you think he can't do that.
he gave us free will, he wont take it away God cannot lie
I didn't ask him to lie, did I?
it is, they had an entire professional camera team brought in
A "camera team" is not science.
the same host that was photographed was brought in...
You don't know that and it hasn't been shown.