04-24-2007, 08:22 AM
[quote mattkime]I fail to see how this is any stranger than the beliefs of any other branch of Christianity.
If the Catholic Church didn't claim superiority (being the voice of Christ on earth) and if the didn't feel a need to set up a set of their own commandments like:
The 5 Commandments of the Church:
1- Go to Holy Mass every Sunday and Feasts to keep
2- Confess at least once a year at Paschal time
3- Receive the Eucharist at least once a year at Paschal time
4- Fast and Abstinence as order by the Church
5- Give tithes to the Church as ordered
...and thus set themselves up as Godlike, maybe people wouldn't focus so much criticism on them. It might also help if they stopped letting their salesmen wear dresses and denounced them for preying on young children.
They chose instead to cover these things up and when paying people off became to much, to declare bankruptcy. Lots of reasons they're the poster church of hypocrisy and a prime target.
Not to mention they have deep pockets, if you could ever get to them.
If the Catholic Church didn't claim superiority (being the voice of Christ on earth) and if the didn't feel a need to set up a set of their own commandments like:
The 5 Commandments of the Church:
1- Go to Holy Mass every Sunday and Feasts to keep
2- Confess at least once a year at Paschal time
3- Receive the Eucharist at least once a year at Paschal time
4- Fast and Abstinence as order by the Church
5- Give tithes to the Church as ordered
...and thus set themselves up as Godlike, maybe people wouldn't focus so much criticism on them. It might also help if they stopped letting their salesmen wear dresses and denounced them for preying on young children.
They chose instead to cover these things up and when paying people off became to much, to declare bankruptcy. Lots of reasons they're the poster church of hypocrisy and a prime target.
Not to mention they have deep pockets, if you could ever get to them.