WHY I DON'T LIKE PRIESTS
I don’t like priests because:
They say that divorce is bad and then they allow it when a member of a
non-Christian or non-baptised couple converts to Christianity.
They tell you that sin is a disorder and hateful but deny that this means that
sinners are disordered and hateful which makes no sense. We know it makes no
sense for we all feel that if anybody deliberately hurts us that the person is
evil in so far as he or she harms us. To hate evil then is to hate a person and
only persons can be evil. To say John did a despicable thing is as much to say
that John is despicable.
They tell you that hate is not the opposite of love – not caring what a person
is enduring is the opposite of love. Not caring is worse than hating for people
have to care about you a bit to hate. So the Church admits that but still it
advocates this evil and makes it holy and an essential part of its faith. The
people in Heaven enjoy Heaven despite the everlasting suffering of those in Hell
because they don’t care on the grounds that the damned have only themselves to
blame. Christians enjoy themselves now despite believing that there are people
in Hell and that their own friends could be among them. It’s an evil faith that
hates sin so much that it thinks sin should be punished forever if the person
dies. That is worrying about the sin more than the person.
They say bigotry is a sin while their faith is based on it for they use it to
control people’s lives in the way they want and call for suffering for God and
believing in bizarre and even contradictory or paradoxical doctrines such as a
man coming back from the dead and being fully God and fully man at the one time
to name a few. Yet they condemn others who do the same when it’s a different
faith they come up with.
They tell you that God raised Jesus from the dead to prove that Jesus’ doctrines
and revelations were true. They say that the other explanations of what might
have happened which exclude a supernatural resurrection are harder to believe
than in the resurrection. This is nonsense for you should only believe that
natural law has been altered or suspended as a last resort. An implausible
natural explanation is better than an unnatural one. They are quick to agree
when it's another religion’s miracle claims that come up but not when it is their
own.
They tell you that the Virgin Mary appeared at Lourdes in 1858 and that because
such visions are not part of divine revelation but only draw attention to it
they have no right to command what is harmful even though Mary urged drinking
from a spring in an infectious dump! The Church says that it is only human
opinion that it was Mary and nobody is bound to agree for the only thing that we
are bound to agree with is what God says in the Bible and the Church tradition.
This is another reason why the apparition is dangerous. Medjugorje which had the
children being abducted by communists and Fatima in which something similar
happened then must be in the same boat.
They tell you that revelation that must be accepted as revealed by God stopped
with the death of the last apostle of Christ. But it is obviously a double
standard when they teach that you must believe in the Bible miracles despite the
weak evidence and you may reject the apparitions of Mary at Lourdes if you see
problems when the latter have better verified miracles for they present the
evidence of doctors to verify them. Mary at Lourdes supported Church doctrine so
in doing that she shot herself in the foot for it is incoherent and wrong.
They tell you that contraception is a sin for a child should be seen as
something to be wanted and something that is precious and which God will not
send unless he should. And then they allow people to try and avoid conception by
using natural family planning or abstinence.
They tell you that no matter how extreme the circumstances euthanasia is wrong
so human life must be more important than quality of life. And if that’s so they
can’t consistently allow morphine for dying patients for that will kill them.
Just because you are dying anyway doesn’t mean it is not murder to kill you. If
life comes first the morphine is wrong.
They represent religion. Everybody should do what works for them and experiment
with spirituality instead of listening to their rules. If people did that there
would be no religious wars. Religion causes many wars.
They teach that the pornographic adoration of a man suffering on the cross for
us is good but then they forbid holding that sexual parts that give life should
be reverenced religiously. At least Witchcraft is right that the sexual parts
are the most sacred parts of the body for they give life.
They baptise your children with a view to indoctrinating them. That is stealing
your children. It's child abuse. Children should be taught about decency and
integrity and nothing else. What good does it do a child to teach them that a
book like the Bible is the word of God? A baby becomes a child of God by being
baptised. It follows that whether the Church admits it or not, that its teaching
is saying that unbaptised babies are defective and not children of God but
little bastards. The Church thinks of children conceived outside of marriage as
bastards. If you are a bastard because your father wasn’t married to your mother
then how much more are you a bastard if you don’t have God for your father? He
doesn’t even want you until baptism magically changes his mind! It follows then
that it is a pity unbaptised babies have to exist at all.
They teach that baptism heals original sin which causes us to like sin so much.
Logically baptised people are superior to unbaptised and should be more
trustworthy. This is nonsense and a deliberate lie and has fomented racism. The
sacraments, rites that have occult power to turn you into a better and holier
and more godly person, have no unique power so the priests are just quacks for
the soul. Most of the baptised fall into a state of spiritual separation from
the Church by “serious” sin such as scepticism towards certain doctrines of the
Church and so on. So even experience doesn’t support their nonsense, their
deliberate lie, that anybody that is baptised is born again, turned into a new
person who unlike before is mostly inclined to serve God and the Church.
They say that grace is what you need from God to be saved. And they claim that
God does the absurd and unnecessary miracle of turning bread and wine into the
body and blood of Jesus Christ through the hands of the priest so that Jesus can
be spiritual food and drink. But it is grace that is the food in a symbolic
sense. And you don’t need Jesus’ body or blood for that. The rite was invented
just to create mystery and fear of the power of the priest and to attract the
people and to make an excuse for getting them to go to Church often to be
brainwashed and an excuse for making those banned from communion feel guilty.
It’s a bait.
They say that there is no merit in any good work you do while you are estranged
from God by serious sin. This is because you are telling God, “I want good on my
terms not yours” so the good works are the most dangerous sins of all for they
look good but are fully evil in the motivation. Venial sin which does not
estrange you from God for it is not serious enough says the same thing and yet
the priests deny that every good work done by a venial sinner is a sin.
They believe that those who die unrepentant of serious sin will suffer forever
in Hell for it. You need proof and not just proof but absolute proof to be able
to say things like that and they haven’t got proof. What could be more serious
than saying anybody deserves eternal punishment? It can’t be even thought
without some kind of vindictiveness. The Bible says that serious sinners go to
everlasting torment and human nature being what it is often can’t help hating
the guts of those who are seen as leading others into such sin. Catholicism
underhandedly incites to hatred.
They teach you that you must believe everything that is part of the faith they
represent for you can’t pick and choose for either you believe God speaks
through the leadership of the Church or he doesn’t especially when God can
command things that look bad but which lead to more good in some way that we
cannot understand for we only have a limited view. This nonsense gives them
incredible power over lives. It’s dangerous. And it proves how the religion
isn’t being true to itself if it not authoritarian. Today’s priests are afraid
to dictate. Deuteronomy 18 has God saying a prophet of God who does miracles and
who is always right about what he predicts in the future but who reports that
God made a revelation to him that isn’t right then that prophet is to be
rejected outright and totally. The standard is not high but perfect so to
question one doctrine is to question all. All the doctrines go together.
They say the Bible is the word of God though it has God commanding Jesus to make
a human sacrifice of himself to God for sins and for adulterers, homosexuals and
apostates to be put to death by stoning. So they would wish that edifying books
would disappear if there was a choice between them and the Bible disappearing!
There can be nothing better than the word of God but how could it be good to
have children reading and adoring an evil twisted bigoted old book?
They never mention the Catholic doctrine that the Jewish Law was not done away
with by Christ. What he did away with was the penalty of not keeping the Law
perfectly for that is impossible anyway but you can keep it if you want. St Paul
in the book of Acts kept the Law long after he converted to Christ. So this
means the Church should control the state and allow the application of the
Jewish Law including the capital punishment by stoning of adulterers and
homosexuals and so forth. Religions with dangerous scriptures should not be
given any political power.
They never tell you that though Church decrees are infallible when intended to
be and when the decrees are speaking to the whole Church that many of these
decrees command the murder of heretics and those who contradict the faith of the
Church – see the declarations of the infallible ecumenical councils such as
Lateran 3 and 4. It is not Islam that has the most statements encouraging holy
war and religious murder. It is Roman Catholicism. Islam can be made into a
religion of peace if it would just listen to the Koran only and remember that
its God is said to be the Merciful – Roman Catholicism cannot without denying
itself. Its God wants heretics dead in case they corrupt others.
They say God allows suffering to happen so that we may show compassion to one
another – obviously to deny this is to deny there is an Almighty and all-loving
God. To suggest that God stands by and allows terrible suffering for that reason
is totally callous. Does a good mother stand by and let her baby scream in agony
so that the doctor can exercise compassion? Could compassion be genuine when you
assume that God allows suffering so that you may exercise it? That is saying
that even if you are wrong you want to believe you are right and that people
should suffer so that you may be compassionate. That’s “compassion” not
compassion. No decent person watches her or his child die screaming in agony
after years of suffering and suggests an all-good God has a reason for it. If
you can assume that about a being whose existence you can't verify as well as
the existence of your father, then why not assume your father had a good purpose
for sexually abusing you that justifies it? If your father was ill when he did
this, you are still saying he deserves a reward for he only thought he was doing
right. Christianity and God belief is a sick combination.
They condemn divination but prayer for guidance and belief in the guiding
presence of the Holy Spirit is divination. Guidance is no good unless you feel
that God is telling you to watch out for some people. Divination and such prayer
is evil because it is the desire to delve into the secrets of others. The people
who feel they get guidance from some psychic sense do it the same way as those
who feel that god is guiding them.
They agree with Jeremiah 17:9 where it is warned that the human heart is full of
deceit. They teach that we still suffer the effects of original sin which makes
us prefer to have our own religion than follow God's way. Jesus himself
considered the self-deceit of the Pharisees and scribes so powerful that he
didn’t bother trying to convert them to a better way. He called them blind. It
follows that religion and faith are really probably man-made and that to follow
religion at all is to follow men. Even if Catholicism is correct, it could still
be following men and not God to follow it. We could be taking men's word for it
and not God's that the faith is true. So the odds are stacked against you that
you are following God not men. It follows too that you could think you are doing
good for God or others whereas the real reason is to avoid damnation in Hell or
to get into Heaven. Let us assume that an act can be motivated by more or less
altruism. An atheist then would have more chance of being altruistic or would
perform a better degree of altruism than a believer. The atheist sees altruism
as sacrificing some time in his life for others and he will never get much or
anything back for it for death is the end. Even if atheists were not as good as
religionists, it would be a reflection on the kind of people that are becoming
atheists not their atheism.