Why is the Catholic Religion so full of double standard practices and corruption,why do so many support it?
461102
If you look at how religions are designed you will see the many similarities to a cult. How does a Cult work? They use influence and persuasion. If you research these things you will see that they have been designed to reach every type of person in the world. Just as advertising uses the same tools.  Through authority, scarcity, guilt, need of fulfillment and so on. I didn't really think about it until I read your question, but I think what Catholicism has done is used the most powerful cult designed by the most wise, God. They have added things such as praying to idols and creating dependency on the church with confession to bring more people in. By doing these things more people have been deceived. You cant blame them, only pray for them. Look at how many people have come together for man made religions and cults. Perhaps through Catholicism Satan will unify religion. This is why they are the richest religious establishment in the world. It is written that Satan will tell 100 truths and 1 lie. He has taken Gods word which cannot be contested even by him and used it against us. This shows even more so how Satan will and has been able to complete everything he has. If the church is behind it everyone that follows the church will be too. For everyone else who doesn't follow anything, they are already his. Wow!! If by the way I wrote this you think Im anti religion your wrong. Im Christian and pray that more people will see through this deceit.
74364
Welcome to the world of hypocracy!  That is one of those great quandries.  Think about it, alot preach one thing and do another.  How many so-called men and women of god have been caught committing adultry among other things?  Call it being human or whatever but when you are in that position you are held to a higher standard.  How can you tell people something is wrong when you turn around and do it yourself?
463003
This is EXACTLY how you should feel and I don't blame you a bit. I'm not catholic, but I have been wondering the same things. Why aren't more people in an uproar about this??
1120064
Yup, he saw corruption, and wanted it to stop.  He wasn't really trying to form a new religion - he was trying to reform Catholicism.
952010
I think I'm going to be sick.  It's not downplayed? Do these people even watch the news???????????????????  It most certainly is downplayed by the Church AND it's members!  I know, cause I work with Catholics and all of them say "Yeah, well, they did catch one......" One out of how many who are doing this?  And, like you said, just how many have they covered up??????\n\nAnd I would really like to know, 20wks, how oxy is a hypocrite???  Geez woman pull your head outta your rear!  There's nothing hypocritical here except you trying to pass off the hypocricy onto someone else.\n\nArrest those who hide pedophiles as if they committed the crime themselves.  And tax the hell outta the Church.  Then we'll see if they have the money to move these priests around.
676114
I know exactly what you mean, I sometimes go to a catholic church and the only thing they do is say how we must all follow Catholicism because all the others are fake... one wise guy actually said that Judaism is a "false" religion, I almost stood up in the middle of his serman and told him flat out that the Catholic church and the entirity of Christianity is based off of Judaism. I mean, c'mon, the entire Old Testement is actually a translation of the Jewish Torah! I hope that anyone who you meet who says stuff like that will be quickly repremanded and corrected by you!\n\nGood Luck!
847022
Catholicism is a branch of Christianity.  Not believing in the Bible defeats the purpose of Christianity.  You can't claim to be a Christian yet not believe in the one book that Christianity is all about.
911113
Well you pretty much answered your own question..thoroughly I might add. That's a silly Catholic guilt mechanism designed to control people when a person who knows better wants to control them. I'd imagine that the people that dish out this nonsense rarely believe it, it simply gives them more control in other peoples lives. Good to see you see better than that :)
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I'm sure you remember the Inquisition.. or the papal pardons, or especially the crusades(did you know that in one crusade they sent children in battle because they we're the only ones left? and all for money...). Imagine you we're the pope, and that millions of people believe that you are the represent-ant on earth of the God that gave them all that they have.. you would give him total obedience, in respect for God. Such a power would corrupt many, if not all... maybe it striped the officials of the church of that time of their faith and fear of God, or maybe they never had faith and we're fake as today's politicians.. we can only assume, will never know for sure.. Of course there are good guys too, that fight for preserving God's laws and for the well-fair of Cristian's, they are the motif for which people believe in God up to this day, they are the hope of the church and of the salvation pf humanity as we know it:( It's sad that those who preach moral values have never done anything more with them..
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Because Christianity (Especially Catholocism) is grossly out of date. Think about it, this religion COMPLETELY segregates people by gender. The Catholic church has roles that a man fills and roles that a woman fills, that's the way it always has been, and probably always will be.
469083
I was raised a Catholic but personally I think Islam is a great faith, too bad some followers of  Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab have given your religion a black eye, but don't true Muslims view terrorists as Fasiq or Munafiq, I've read that the virgin Mary is mentioned more often in the Qur'ān than in the Bible, and having a Pope and Cardinals that live extravagantly in mansions after taking a vow of poverty certainly is hypocritical, let alone all the corrupt priests, and Evangelists that have been caught doing despicable things. We should all command what is good, forbid what is evil, and strive to seek God's approval.
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there were popes who cheated on their wives and one pope picked up a boy off the streets for sex and made him a cardinal,\n\nso around this time the church said no make these priests all celebiate no wifes no mistresses no boyfriends \n\none guy died on top of his mistress\n\nso thats why thats the history none of that crap about the bible or egypt
925776
It just comes down to watering down what the bible says to appease people more and more as their morals degrade.\n\nFor a 'christain' country and for 'christian' priests you would think that the bible should be the authority on which to base their morals wouldn't you.  But no! even though it is undeniably clear that god totally condemns homosexuality in a number of places in the bible, they see it fit to either ignore this or say that god has changed his mind!?  On what authority can they say that god has changed his mind?\n\nBy these things they identify themselves with false religion which god will soon destroy, not true religion.
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Those who chose to ignore it are not following the Christian faith.  And most of us do not ignore it.\n\nhttp://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/
887639
surprisinly enough there are some liberal so called catholics, they put shame to our faith, and as far as Im conserned most are catholics in name only, meaning the can and should be excomunicated.
766550
There is controversy because no religion agrees with any other one, and everyone thinks only theirs is right. Religion is an intensely personal thing, so if you were to discover yours is wrong, then you are wrong to the core and everything you've believed in has been a waste of time. That's hard to take, so people defend their religions the best they can and try to make the OTHER religions look wrong, which translates to prejudice, quarreling, and becoming barbaric.
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If this is a serious question, then it deserves a serious answer.\n\nThe religion itself is not the source of the problem.\n\nThe problem lay very much with the institution of the church and its relationship with society.\n\nTo 'believe' and follow the religion requires a strong faith in teachings that cannot be proven by facts (even a google search won't help on this one!).\n\nA follower depends on the teachings of the church.  The church, in practicality, becomes the center of moral authority.\n\nSo, when someone with a human failing becomes a priest, he not just a priest, he is part of the moral authority mechanism.\n\nThere was (and in some cases still is) a huge misplaced loyalty to the institution of the church.\n\nAny challenge to the authority of the church was interpreted as a potential challenge to its position and therefore its teachings.\n\nIndividual children and parents were powerless to challenge the authority of the church.  Bishops and Cardinals faced the issues with total denial, or, even worse, simply moved the offenders to new areas to begin an new series of abuse.\n\n(You may recall an incident when the Irish singer Sinead O'Connor tore up a picture of the previous Pope on live TV (over the church child abuse issue), she was vilified for years afterwards - hardly anyone took any time to even ask what she was protesting about!  Radio stations and stores were too busy boycotting her music)  \n\nThe links that the church had in society often meant that a priest or Bishop could have a quiet word to the police, lawyers and judges to reassure them that the abuse was simply the figment of an overactive imagination.\n\nThis aspect reasonably explains the high abuse incidence.  The church, in effect, allowed its latent abusers to abuse, whereas out in society latent abusers were restrained by less opportunity and a far higher probability of being caught. \n\nHaving said all that, the situation has been turned around.  The lone voices built up into a giant roar and finally attracted the attention of very many church followers who genuinely did not understand what had gone on.  They have forced wholesale changes and cleared out the gatekeepers who were complict in hiding the abuse.\n\nWhy stick with the religion?  Well, if you believe in its teachings, then you believe that it is the right path to take.  Good did finally triumph over evil.\n\n(Having said all that, I didn't stick with the religion because it just doesn't ring true for me any more).