It is. It's how the RCC keeps it's adherents in line, through fear. The whole thing is built on fear.
Fear of sinning before communion.
Fear of sinning before your next confession.
Fear of not being good enough.
Fear of your works not making the grade.
Fear of being condemned by an angry, vengeful God whom only Mary can appease, and going to hell, directly to hell. Do not pass purgatory.....
Romans 8:15For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"
2 Timothy 1:7...for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
The Reformation reconnected people with the understanding of the love of the God of the Bible, the one who died for them to forgive ALL their sins so they didn't have to live under a cloud of constant condemnation and fear of eternal hellfire.
The Catholic god shows no mercy. All remission of sins has to be earned. That's not mercy, that's subjection.
The truth will indeed set you 'free'....excellant!
The Catholic god shows no mercy. All remission of sins has to be earned. That's not mercy, that's subjection.
Sounds like it borrows heavily from Islam
Once again, your Catholic education has been woefully inadequate. The Christian God is a God of mercy. All remission of sins depends on repentence, but Jesus will draw all men to Him. That is mercy, and not justice.
“The Catholic god shows no mercy. All remission of sins has to be earned. That’s not mercy, that’s subjection”.
I am truly amazed and repelled by this statement; it is very far from truth. I am a convert to the Catholic Faith and I was NEVER taught this, not as a catechuman, not from the pulpit from a priest, not in Confession, not by word of mouth.
The statement you have made here cannot be verified in the Catholic Catechism.
It’s a very subjective view and can’t be sustained by fact.
“Fear of being condemned by an angry,vengeful God whom only Mary can appease——”. This is nonsense. And it is also not truth.