CATHOLICS VERSUS PROTESTANTS - "US VERSUS THEM" OR DIFFERENT FORMS OF
THE SAME PROBLEM?
If a religion like Mormonism has factions in it, the factions may imitate each
other but that does not change the fact that in essentials they are the same
religion. Sects are not necessarily religions but can be factions sometimes
bitter ones within the same religion.
For this reason, Protestants cannot be smug about the terrible things the Roman
Catholic Church did. The Inquisition was still implemented by Christianity and
both Protestants and Catholics identify with Christianity. It is the
Protestant's mess not just the Catholics for both claim to be in the Christian
religion. And where were the Protestants when the Inquisition was going on? They
were in the Catholic Church.
Catholics have to see what their Protestant enemies did to them as a reflection
on Christianity and themselves.
Catholics and Protestants who blame the bad things on each other are a disgrace.
It is about inflaming sectarian tensions in the name of concern for the innocent
who died. It takes two sides to have a war but for one sect to deny
responsibility for what other horrible members of the religion are like is a
whole new issue. It shows they don't care about what it says about them and want
to lay all the blame on the others. Denial of your role in evil prolongs and
empowers the evil.
The us versus them lies are so rife in Catholicism and Protestantism that one
should defect from them and let them wither away.
So we conclude that Protestantism's mess and Catholicism's mess is in the one
chamber pot.
Elements of Conspiratorial Liability
From Wikipedia
-Two or more persons come to a mutual understanding to try to accomplish a
common and unlawful plan
-The defendant wilfully becomes a member of the conspiracy
-During the conspiracy at least one of the conspirators commit an overt act in
furtherance of the conspiracy
-The overt act is knowingly committed in an effort to further the purpose of the
conspiracy
What we are about to learn applies to any religion. We will just talk about
Catholicism but you could easily substitute Mormonism or Hinduism or whatever.
Others commit an evil or a crime. You are there. You know. You have the ability
to say something about it to them. You have the ability to indicate your
disapproval to them. You have the power to force them to stop. You can contact
the authorities. You don't bother. You have wilfully and effectively allowed
them to do what they did. You are not an innocent bystander. You are a de facto
accessory to the crime.