Un-Christlike pressure
from organized religion
Abuses
of some churches, the Roman Catholic Church included
This is the fiftieth document of this
series (*), and I want to dedicate it to talk about a very sensitive and
delicate subject: the un-Christlike pressure from
some churches, including my mother church, the Roman Catholic Church. It's
never too late.
Fifty years experience
I do not intend to write out of
resentfulness, but as somebody who experienced the unfair burden of being a
Catholic. I do not want to attack the R.C.C., nor any other Christian
denomination for that matter; what I want to do is to give information to the
readers of "Christianity..." This page is not in the spirit of
proselytizing, nor am I looking for adherents. This document is informative,
with a fifty year historical perspective.
I'll speak from my own experience and
knowledge; I'll speak about facts, not opinions. I want to help others with my
page. Jesus said that no one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a secret
place or under the basket, but on a lampstand, that
those who come in may see the light (Luke 13:33).
Lighting the light
That is what I want to do, to "light
the lamp" with modesty and humility, recognizing that I am a fallible man,
as everybody else is. The leaders of the Church are also lighting their own
lamps; the difference is that they, presumptuously, believe that they are
infallible, and attribute to themselves what belongs only to God.
We, human beings are, by nature, fallible,
and I recognize it. Human beings can not be infallible; not even the
writers of the Bible, as I explained elsewhere. Infallibility belongs only to
God. But, although I am fallible, I want to talk about facts, and real facts
are true by themselves.
Are the leaders guilty?
I am not here to judge anybody; everyone
may judge for him/herself. I am here only to talk about "abuses" of
the pass and in the present. It is the same as when we criticize slavery or the
Inquisition, to give other historical examples.
Are they excusable? Probably yes
Do the leaders of the Church have an
excuse? do I excuse them? Probably yes; they are, or
have been, blind; they do not see the light and the truth. I do not elaborate
if their blindness is excusable. I was blind also bona fide, in good
faith; I was blind and leader of the blind, as Jesus said (Matthew
A lot more in the book
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