Wonder why he hates the Catholic Church specifically?
The letter is confusing to me. Did he want freedom and just thought our system was too corrupt to provide true freedom?
Or did he want some sort of communism because he thought that the rich cronies wouldn’t be so powerful - and that people like his old neighbor lady would have been taken care of?
I think he hates the Catholic church, because he sees it as the epitome of the rich church; he and some buddies started a nonprofit of some kind when they were young, because they felt that churches were getting rich due to their tax-exempt status. They wanted to show up the law as too-easily exploitable, and deliberately set up their organization to dodge taxes. The IRS took a dim view of it, and penalized him $40,000. Rather than take responsibility for being a dumbass, he blames the church for somehow being exempt from “fooling” the IRS.