why the catholic church is fucked up

[JG Ballard]

I was raised a Catholic. Belonged to a parish, attended the school with the nuns, the whole bit. I was curious about the whole thing and really tried to pay attention and study the teachings. I remember first entering the church and the first thing that I saw was a life-sized figure on the cross front and center. This was accepted by all, but my thought as a six-year old was what did they sign me up for here? I used to read the stories of the saints in the books sold in the gift shop and they were all grisly tales with pictures of mutilation and torture, burned and bleeding bodies, and each saint would be smiling in the picture like he/she was enjoying it (probably why I'm on this site). It all seemed like a competition to see who could suffer in the most horrible way. And then there was this creepy cult atmosphere at the masses with the nuns and priests in strange vestments and wearing giant crucifixes, incense burning, chanting, etc. I had a book about the Virgin of Guadalupe and the three kids who purportedly communicated with her. It was full of condemnations of practically everyone for every conceivable act, with the Virgin promising that they were all going to hell and showing visions of hell to the kids. But despite the first 22 years of my life being partially consumed by this weirdness, I still appreciated the artistic and ritualistic aspects of it all, and I was also instilled with discipline and well-educated by their system. I'm no longer a part of any of it, but I will say this: there was a cohesive community there. People packed that church on Sundays and many attended daily masses too. They had fanatics and devoted ones, but my guess is that most who belonged just went along with it in order to feel connected.

 

[Bill Murray]

I don't know what your view of demonology is, but I have first-hand experience so NO ONE can tell me the demonic isn't real. I'm a Protestant, but I will say no religion does more to help those afflicted by the demonic than the Catholic church. I don't agree with 80% of what they teach, but if you have a demonic issue, the Catholic exorcists are about the only ones with the balls to help you, and they will not stop till you are delivered.

What?

Don’t forget the misogyny of women being 2nd class citizens and not allowed to be ordained. They do accept human evolution but it’s really theistic evolution

Thats an easy one, follow the money. If you have a matriarchal leadership those ladies are going to have kids and any familial wealth will need to be distributed. Keep the clergy single celibate* and male you can keep the gold & property within the church.

*except for all the side pussy & ass

There used to be very few possessions and exorcism. But after ‘The Exorcist’ was released in 1973 possessions increased dramatically. So much so that a new medical diagnosis was named. Cinematic Neurosis.

I hope the prescribed treatment for this is a slap upside the head

Like me hearing Justin Bieber.

I hear Bieber and I get the urge to chew tinfoil.

We don't need no stinkin' incense and prayer!

I actually like the smell of real incense & charcoal...its very soothing.

 

[Dead Christ]

I actually like the smell of real incense & charcoal...its very soothing.

Yeah, I actually collect incense and regularly burn it... but Catholics can go fuck themselves!

 

[Deleted User 201666]

Religion is for the weak

 

[Sweet Death]

Catholicism was a way of making money from people when they were illiterate and the Bible and all the trappings of the church were in Latin. The Catholics and Popes made up things that were not in the bible...they honored Mary as a saint when she was just a poor woman who gave birth to Jesus...they instigated paying for absolution and saying Hail Mary's....all the people's money went into the Catholic churches and higher ups in the church. Popes lived like kings.
It was and is so hypocritical...one does not need to confess to a priest, say hail Mary's, or believe in the Pope and donate money to the church for absolution...it's the longest playing con game ever.

 

[Dolly]

Catholic girls are filthy in bed

I was raised Catholic, and went to a nun run boarding school. I have rambled about it before on here,I think.. But they nuns were torturers and mostly all vile hags. I played the crazy girl act so they left me alone. volatile, likely to explode. No joke Id re enact horror movie characters id seen like someone possessed by a demon, if they even tried to berate me too far... I was the smallest in the dorm, but the fucking scariest... I saw all kinds of shit. and even a friend aged 12 hanged herself ... thats insane when you look at it as an adult... I figured they'd all have been ok if they'd got fucked. Something about sexless women turns them into hateful hags , reminds me of someone on here.

Its all a crock of shit as Stephen Fry said

“Yes, the world is very splendid but it also has in it insects whose whole lifecycle is to burrow into the eyes of children and make them blind. They eat outwards from the eyes. Why? Why did you do that to us? You could easily have made a creation in which that didn’t exist. It is simply not acceptable.

“It’s perfectly apparent that he is monstrous. Utterly monstrous and deserves no respect whatsoever. The moment you banish him, life becomes simpler, purer, cleaner, more worth living in my opinion.”

But there are remnants in me, for eg.. I had my children baptized, just in case and also Id never suicide because... just in case.. fuck pergotary no nothing.. Ill take hell because I quite fancy pinhead


full Fry interview, he nails God

 

[Shitnbaxon69]

The Silver lining is that you get a free blowjob Everytime you go that's how I remembered it

 

[McM]

Music was an even greater trigger for many people

See the girls at the Beatles' concerts back then.

 

[Flatus Tube]

Catholic girls are filthy in bed

I was raised Catholic…

That is one of the best starts to a post in ages 🤪.

PS- I met Steven Fry when I was a medical student on a placement in a tertiary Bipolar Disorder service. He was interviewing my Consultant. His laugh was like happy thunder! He’s a genuinely lovely man.

 

[Racist Bastard]

As a preamble I'm a very lapsed catholic, aside from funerals or weddings its got to be 30 years since I've been to mass. They're an institution in crisis with scandals around real & damaging abuse, declining membership and not connecting with their flock.

For over 20 years a priest in Phoenix has been baptizing children saying "We baptize you in the name of...." instead of "I baptize you in the name of....". The church's response to this was to invalidate thousands of baptisms which throws confirmations, weddings, etc. into disarray. The priest involved sounds like a decent guy, is loved by his parishioners, didn't diddle kids and by all accounts made the We vs. I mistake innocently. The dioceses is insisting that everyone affected needs to be rebaptized, thats some bullshit!

The church has excused pedophiles, abusers and all sorts of scumbaggery surely to fuck they could grant some sort of papal disposition to allow those baptized as "we" to continue to be good catholics.

Priest Resigns After Catholic Church Voids Thousands of His Baptisms Over 1-Word Mistake

"I deeply regret my error and how this has affected numerous people in your parish and elsewhere," said Andres Arango, who resigned from the Diocese of Phoenix

people.com

All church is about nothing but $$ anyway. Nothing the Roman Catholic Church dose surprises me. Biggest scam in human history

 

[Prince 👑 Harming]

I went to a catholic private school as a child run by horrible old nuns ... we called the principal sister strap on

 

[Windowshopper]

Oh, you said the Incantation incorrectly. Your Magic has no power now.... guess your God is pretty fucking petty to catch you on a Technicality like that.

 

[Venture _Capitalist]

ooga booga

 

[McM]

I went to a catholic private school as a child run by horrible old nuns ... we called the principal sister strap on

As a small boy I've been in a psychiatric institution run by nuns in the 60's (only 6 weeks for observation), I still have sometimes weird dreams about this episode and am not 100% sure what all has happened there.
The juvenile/children homes run by them were feared and had a bad reputation for producing disturbed kids as well.

 

[Prince 👑 Harming]

As a small boy I've been in a psychiatric institution run by nuns in the 60's (only 6 weeks for observation), I still have sometimes weird dreams about this episode and am not 100% sure what all has happened there.
The juvenile/children homes run by them were feared and had a bad reputation for producing disturbed kids as well.

I always thought it was strange how cruel and unhappy they were. they especially disliked me because I wasn't baptized and outright refused to be baptized several times

 

[Dead Christ]

I've had to deal with plenty of stupid Christian shit growing up and all I ended up with was schizophrenic religious delusions

 

[Flatus Tube]

All church is about nothing but $$ anyway. Nothing the Roman Catholic Church dose surprises me. Biggest scam in human history

This video highlights your statement lol…

The juvenile/children homes run by them were feared and had a bad reputation for producing disturbed kids as well.

Religious schools usually teach kids that normal human emotions, instincts and behaviours are wrong. Like masturbation, sex, anger etc. This shames the kids into believing they are inherently ‘bad’ (or even evil or demonic) and the toxic shame grows as they get older leading to mental health problems including addiction, sexual problems, personality disorder etc. Awful system!

 

[Dead Christ]

It may sound extremist, but I genuinely believe the world would be a bit better if the entire Christian/Catholic presence was toned down a bit... if not thrown away altogether. There are over 10,000 distinct religions worldwide... they can find themselves something else.

 

[j.f.🔎]

Stephen fry nailed exactly how I feel about God 👆 if he exists I want nothing to do with the cruel taxdodging fucker.

 

[Nobbler]

The circus of morality, in the human mind there are various types of morality and sin , all this invented by the human mind to fill one slot, to try to feel a connection with the Devine, when that one thing is missing we tend to create many things. If you go about debating I’m sure each person has their own view on what is virtue and what is sin, of course according to their own convenance , because the contact of the bases of who you are has not been established, with that lacking we invent so many things, so your idea of virtue could be twisted.what should have naturally occurred, you are acting it out. Someone who is 100 percent correct in morals no one wants to be around them, totally moral and lifeless. The better you think you are the more you will think no one is ok, that’s a sign of mental disorder, you have become too much emotion , too much mind but not enough life. Are you mind with a life or life with a mind. Allow the intelligence of life to function. You have a complete at life but all the priests and pundits think they have to fix you, you think the creator made a mistake with you ? No, if you reverberate as just life you will not need any morality, if you are here as life, you will know your life is not individual it is connected to everything in the universe.