[ealgeone]

It has to go back to control. The long history of the rcc is evidence of this. From not wanting the people to read the Bible, trying to keep it in Latin and not the native tongues.

The concept of the mortal sin that only a priest can forgive would keep me in abject fear. The priest would never leave my sight.

The lack of trust in Christ in part explains the reliance upon Mary for so much.

All of the doing catholics say is required to keep/earn your salvation shows a lack of faith.

[dsc]

It is much easier to deceive people than to convince them later that they have been deceived.

That is why some people cannot be disabused of falsehoods such as that the Church didn’t/doesn’t want people to read the Bible, that there is no good reason for maintaining the Latin bible, that only a priest can forgive sin, et cetera, et cetera, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

I hope the incessant repetition of these lies does not result in the loss of the souls involved.

And I’m done.