THE FANATICISM OF SACRAMENTAL WORSHIP
While the Church holds that God is not confined to the sacraments in order to help us find him and be cleansed of sin, it holds that the sacraments as good as guarantee that spiritual help will be given. Sacraments are seen as essentials. The sacrament of the sick seems to be the most important one if somebody is in danger of death.
The doctrine of the sacrament commands priests to risk their lives to give
the sacrament say in war conditions. There have been cases where priests and
those they were anointing died because getting the sacrament was prioritised
over maybe making them safer or getting a doctor to them. And this fanaticism
has been celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church.
An unnecessary sacrament that priests are asked to take such chances for is
surely diabolical. The sacrament is evil. It is pro-unjust discrimination
because those who were on the planes that were deliberately crashed into the
World Trade Centre could not avail of the sacrament even if there had been
enough priests around to administer it and only those who are dying of illness
or old age can receive it validly. How low could one get to discriminate against
the dying? The sacrament is supposed to heal the soul of sin and prepare one for
death and no matter how much they want it they cannot have it and they are dying
and the Church callously slaps them across the face. They are kicked when they
are down. The Church cannot change this teaching for tradition says it is only
for the sick who are in real danger of death and the Church puts dogma before
decency.
The teaching that needing and being ready for the sacrament is no good for
receiving the sacrament if there is no oil to do the anointing is an outrage.
The fanaticism of the Roman Catholic Church is plain to be seen. Is that what
you want your children to grow up in? Do you want your children to esteem
priests who make people desire and pray for the sacrament of the sick to be
administered to them if they have the misfortune to be victims of a fatal hit
and run when such a teaching will cause untold distress to the dying person in
such a situation?
What happens if a loved one needs the sacrament and dies without it? If the
concerned person has prayed for her or him, the Church might claim that there is
nothing to worry about for God would have heard the prayers. But that is not a
consolation for prayers cannot help a person unless the person lets them.
Catholics delude themselves that somehow even the worst person becomes a saint
to be and accepts God in the last few seconds of their life. That is pure
Protestant predestination. What is the point of religion if that delusion is in
fact true? It contradicts the major Catholic doctrine of free will. It is giving
false hope and false consolation and is an insult to the suffering person and
the dead person. The fact remains that the sacrament of the sick must be
important for salvation and can't be if nearly everybody goes to Heaven. The
sacrament calls for worry - period.
Catholic Canon Law permits Catholic priests to administer the sacraments of
Eucharist, Penance and Anointing of the Sick to an Anglican only when he or she
is in danger of death or some other grave and pressing need, and provided the
Anglican in question cannot approach an Anglican priest, spontaneously asks for
the sacrament, demonstrates the faith of the Catholic Church in respect of the
sacrament and is properly disposed (Canon 844). The priest who puts doctrines
before a person's faith and before their peace of mind on their deathbed is a
piece of shit. Also, if somebody has had a massive heart attack the sight of a
priest will certainly shock her or him and finish her or him off.
The anointing of the sick makes a fool out of the Lord. It originated with a
brainwave. Priests who saw in it a marvellously effective way to get people to
submit to them invented it. Many are so alarmed at the thought of dying without
the sacrament that they attend Church faithfully and pay the priest every week.
Some worry if a loved one died without a priest anointing her or him and giving
the last rites. If they prayed for the person, the Church tells them not to
worry for the prayers helped the person. That is a cop-out and contradicts the
Church's own teaching that getting the sacrament is very important and that
prayers cannot help a person who resists God.
If anybody finds you, they will or should be more worried about getting a priest
or ringing a priest than a doctor. For example, if their cellphone credit is
running out they should expend their last phone call on a priest.
The Church belittles death with its doctrines of the afterlife and how to
prepare. The doctrine that the people should die forgiving everybody and loving
everybody is total nonsense and places an extra burden on the dying. On your
deathbed virtue is not important – only avoiding the alienation of those who are
looking after you is important but the Church goes a lot further. Do not
belittle yourself to make peace with their God – to belittle yourself for their
invention is the same thing as belittling yourself for them. On your deathbed
indulging yourself is what matters and that is in enjoying hateful thoughts
towards your enemies then so be it.
Catholics believe that the sacrament of the anointing of the sick forgives sins
if you cannot confess sins and there is no time to. The chances of going to
Heaven are heightened. To many who are in serious sin it will mean the only hope
of eternal salvation. So when you find yourself dying because of a car crash you
will be more concerned about getting a priest to anoint you than about dying.
You cannot be more concerned about dying because there is no time to think about
that. Your salvation is more important now. Your horror at there being no priest
will be tremendous. You will not die in peace. The cult of Roman Catholicism
uses dogma to abuse and terrorise the dying and a religion like that deserves no
members. It is a doctrine that Jesus supposedly revealed which means he should
have no followers if he did. Nothing good done by a religion can justify that
religion’s existence when it teaches dogmas like that for a cult that abuses
children and the dying can do nothing that makes even partial amends for that.
The Church plays on the fear of death which is the reason it has any members at
all. It admits as much as when it says that is the spiritual state you are in at
death that really matters not the life you live. The Atheist removes the fear of
death and has no need to join a cult.
The sacrament shows the true colours of the Catholic Church.