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mousmeSee, it's during moments like these that I have to make great efforts to remind myself that it is the institution and not the religion itself that is at fault.
Moments of great doubt when I wonder whether it's not all a large crock of shit.
Read this article to know what I'm talking about. The Vatican rejected the U.S. Roman Catholic Church's new sexual abuse policy Friday, saying the sweeping zero-tolerance crackdown needed to be revised because elements conflict with universal church law.
I'm a pretty devout Catholic, but there's a reason I didn't practise for so many years other than apathy. I still have many, many issues with dogma and doctrine that I have come to understand have nothing to do with catholicism and everything to do with an archaic and top-heavy religious institution.
There is a reason for the separation of church and state, and that is so that no man -regardless of his supposed relationship with God- should be above the law prescribed by his own state. How the Church can condone actions which surely make God sick to His stomach is beyond me. Having such individuals retain positions of power and influence undermines the credibility and holiness of the church and basically destroys everything that Christ suffered and died for.
Bah.
Humanity sucks sometimes.
Moments of great doubt when I wonder whether it's not all a large crock of shit.
Read this article to know what I'm talking about. The Vatican rejected the U.S. Roman Catholic Church's new sexual abuse policy Friday, saying the sweeping zero-tolerance crackdown needed to be revised because elements conflict with universal church law.
I'm a pretty devout Catholic, but there's a reason I didn't practise for so many years other than apathy. I still have many, many issues with dogma and doctrine that I have come to understand have nothing to do with catholicism and everything to do with an archaic and top-heavy religious institution.
There is a reason for the separation of church and state, and that is so that no man -regardless of his supposed relationship with God- should be above the law prescribed by his own state. How the Church can condone actions which surely make God sick to His stomach is beyond me. Having such individuals retain positions of power and influence undermines the credibility and holiness of the church and basically destroys everything that Christ suffered and died for.
Bah.
Humanity sucks sometimes.
