I'm not qualified to write a research paper about the Catholic Church. However, as a victim of church related abuse, I've spent many hours thinking about the church's contributions to, and assaults on the people of the world community.
Thousands of books have been written about the history of the Catholic Church, recording its history in living color, mostly blood red. If the reader wishes historical fact there are series of books written, reaching back to pre-Moses, as in "The Old Testament". The "New Age" people can even watch TeeVee documentaries purporting to link God and Jesus Christ to alien intervention. In the past, events heralded as miracles are now every day occurrences to us mere mortals...or are we? Believe what the UFO-logists say and you may come to believe that WE are, in fact, aliens from other worlds, whose DNA was used to jump start the earthly population. Fun to watch on TeeVee, and maybe to use to start party conversation, but...
For centuries, The Catholic Church ("The Church") has been an imperious organization run by shadowy characters who sought absolute power under the guise of 'tending the flock'. It's not surprising that many writers and historians have attacked "The Church". I hesitate to use the term Christians because that term encompasses all believers in God and Jesus Christ, as opposed to members of the Catholic Church, Catholics.
The Catholic Church is under fire today by misinformed and misled individuals who tend to superimpose their feelings about the lay church, that organization that purportedly represents God on Earth, over True Christianity, which is to me the spiritual connection between man and God (here is usually add "whomever or whatever "GOD" means to you).
Those known as Atheists lump all religions into a stew pot titled "I know better than everybody else". In other words, if these myopic lemmings were defining murder and it's effect on humanity, the lemmings would also denounce all humanity due to murderous acts committed by one or a few delusional human beings. Ridiculous, but thanks to a political administration, let by a complete moron, "theories" like the above are presented as absolute fact! How crazy is that?!
This is why I ignore the rantings of so called atheists. Do you notice that it's always the buzzing of the tiny gnat, fly or mosquito that gets all the attention? These are narrow minded whom have chosen to close their eyes, and apparently their brains, to the concept that there are universal mysteries that we simply do not understand. These people go to some ubber-liberal or progressive school, listen to morons who like to hear themselves talk, then begin believing that they are much smarter than anybody else. This is a dying ideal because our system of education is dying, but that's another blog. I lump all these idiotic groups into one category - Whiny, tired, hungry, dirty diapered, two year olds. Most of us can relate, having had expensive dining experiences destroyed by these spoiled, snotty little jerks who are too pampered by idiotic parents, and should not be in the restaurant in the first place. These are the groups affecting and infecting America today.
The eroding of church membership in America can be explained in several ways. One explanation reflects back to a time in our history referred to as the Age of Aquarius which began in the 1960's This is about the same time progressives began began coming out of the closet to take control of our schools. Drug use went up along with the divorce rate, precipitated by the inflation brought about by two income families. Single working parent families couldn't hack it if they became influenced by TV and Madison Avenue. They folded under the stress, and the kids were forced into a premature sophomoric form of independence.
The spirit of Christianity was brought home from churches by a steady observation of faith in the nuclear family, not by single parents too tired to attend church. Learning good moral values and respect fell out of favor within the disintegrating family unit. Progressivism seeped into our morally decaying schools and, finally, peer pressure, the worst of all 'education' vehicles took over as the moral and ethical training system of our children. How has that worked out?
In effect, Americans got what they deserved as reward for their misdirected focus on values. Marxists, Socialists and Communists saw this failing as their ultimate opportunity to take over the minds of our youth...and they capitalized on that opening. After all, all the armor of strong family units had fallen in pursuit of the almighty dollar. Like cancer can more easily take over a weakened body, socialism, Marxism and Communism can more easily attack our Christian and family values if they are no longer the family bond. Here I use the term Christian, to include Catholic, ergo, all 'believers'.
Back to the Catholic Church. Two changes must take place, at the very least before Catholicism can recover and grow: One: The sickness that has invaded priests must be removed, and higher quality priests must be recruited by allowing them to marry. This applies to the nuns, as well. The church must add more lay teachers to its ranks. This may be accomplished by allowing nuns to marry. The 'rules' covering priests and nuns are policies of past church power plays. Actually, there is no hard proof either way to indicate that Jesus Christ was or was not married. Church elders don't want us to think Jesus was married (as was the custom at that time), so, typically of power hungry thugs, they demand compliance to laws they created.
Two: This suggestion will be controversial, but the church 'leadership' must acknowledge a changing world and allow birth control...not abortion. In effect, the old men who rule must come forward into this century, and begin organizing the Catholic Church for life beyond 2012. Power and control are no longer the rule of the day. Failure to do so may mortally wound the Catholic Church. Proof lies in the fact that the non-Catholic Church body of Christians and Christian Churches appear to do well without these outdated 'church laws' or canons. It's just an idea...
God Bless America! God Save America!
Thousands of books have been written about the history of the Catholic Church, recording its history in living color, mostly blood red. If the reader wishes historical fact there are series of books written, reaching back to pre-Moses, as in "The Old Testament". The "New Age" people can even watch TeeVee documentaries purporting to link God and Jesus Christ to alien intervention. In the past, events heralded as miracles are now every day occurrences to us mere mortals...or are we? Believe what the UFO-logists say and you may come to believe that WE are, in fact, aliens from other worlds, whose DNA was used to jump start the earthly population. Fun to watch on TeeVee, and maybe to use to start party conversation, but...
For centuries, The Catholic Church ("The Church") has been an imperious organization run by shadowy characters who sought absolute power under the guise of 'tending the flock'. It's not surprising that many writers and historians have attacked "The Church". I hesitate to use the term Christians because that term encompasses all believers in God and Jesus Christ, as opposed to members of the Catholic Church, Catholics.
The Catholic Church is under fire today by misinformed and misled individuals who tend to superimpose their feelings about the lay church, that organization that purportedly represents God on Earth, over True Christianity, which is to me the spiritual connection between man and God (here is usually add "whomever or whatever "GOD" means to you).
Those known as Atheists lump all religions into a stew pot titled "I know better than everybody else". In other words, if these myopic lemmings were defining murder and it's effect on humanity, the lemmings would also denounce all humanity due to murderous acts committed by one or a few delusional human beings. Ridiculous, but thanks to a political administration, let by a complete moron, "theories" like the above are presented as absolute fact! How crazy is that?!
This is why I ignore the rantings of so called atheists. Do you notice that it's always the buzzing of the tiny gnat, fly or mosquito that gets all the attention? These are narrow minded whom have chosen to close their eyes, and apparently their brains, to the concept that there are universal mysteries that we simply do not understand. These people go to some ubber-liberal or progressive school, listen to morons who like to hear themselves talk, then begin believing that they are much smarter than anybody else. This is a dying ideal because our system of education is dying, but that's another blog. I lump all these idiotic groups into one category - Whiny, tired, hungry, dirty diapered, two year olds. Most of us can relate, having had expensive dining experiences destroyed by these spoiled, snotty little jerks who are too pampered by idiotic parents, and should not be in the restaurant in the first place. These are the groups affecting and infecting America today.
The eroding of church membership in America can be explained in several ways. One explanation reflects back to a time in our history referred to as the Age of Aquarius which began in the 1960's This is about the same time progressives began began coming out of the closet to take control of our schools. Drug use went up along with the divorce rate, precipitated by the inflation brought about by two income families. Single working parent families couldn't hack it if they became influenced by TV and Madison Avenue. They folded under the stress, and the kids were forced into a premature sophomoric form of independence.
The spirit of Christianity was brought home from churches by a steady observation of faith in the nuclear family, not by single parents too tired to attend church. Learning good moral values and respect fell out of favor within the disintegrating family unit. Progressivism seeped into our morally decaying schools and, finally, peer pressure, the worst of all 'education' vehicles took over as the moral and ethical training system of our children. How has that worked out?
In effect, Americans got what they deserved as reward for their misdirected focus on values. Marxists, Socialists and Communists saw this failing as their ultimate opportunity to take over the minds of our youth...and they capitalized on that opening. After all, all the armor of strong family units had fallen in pursuit of the almighty dollar. Like cancer can more easily take over a weakened body, socialism, Marxism and Communism can more easily attack our Christian and family values if they are no longer the family bond. Here I use the term Christian, to include Catholic, ergo, all 'believers'.
Back to the Catholic Church. Two changes must take place, at the very least before Catholicism can recover and grow: One: The sickness that has invaded priests must be removed, and higher quality priests must be recruited by allowing them to marry. This applies to the nuns, as well. The church must add more lay teachers to its ranks. This may be accomplished by allowing nuns to marry. The 'rules' covering priests and nuns are policies of past church power plays. Actually, there is no hard proof either way to indicate that Jesus Christ was or was not married. Church elders don't want us to think Jesus was married (as was the custom at that time), so, typically of power hungry thugs, they demand compliance to laws they created.
Two: This suggestion will be controversial, but the church 'leadership' must acknowledge a changing world and allow birth control...not abortion. In effect, the old men who rule must come forward into this century, and begin organizing the Catholic Church for life beyond 2012. Power and control are no longer the rule of the day. Failure to do so may mortally wound the Catholic Church. Proof lies in the fact that the non-Catholic Church body of Christians and Christian Churches appear to do well without these outdated 'church laws' or canons. It's just an idea...
God Bless America! God Save America!
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