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i haven't been following the plight of the pope and other people who's death has been hogging media time, but i did want to say something about catholicism.
for the short time that i was watching the news on the popey subject, a commentator mentioned that catholicism is no longer really a religion of europe, but more like the religion of the third-world.
of course many things can be inferred from this statement, but to me it again insinuates the fact that religion is a form of power and control over other people, namely those who are the most easily maleable because they have nothing to lose and everything to gain by believing in the ominous religion.
latin america and africa got deluged with popal visits over his last few good years and where has the most genocide been occuring? just these places.
they believe in catholicism and still get slaughtered.
i guess its better that way...
now they know they're going to heaven when they're brutally murdered or starved to death.
if these people were left to their own devices and prexisiting cultural beliefs, i'm sure the majority of them could easily be self-sufficient.
but land is a commodity and the first thing you have to do to gain that commodity is to either destroy or control the people that inhabit it.
and if you're not looking to personally inhabit the land, then what better way to use the land than to brainwash the natives into cultivating it for you using religious tactics.
yeah, catholicism may need to transform and bastardize itself by melding with prexisiting native beliefs, but anything in the name of progress...
however, i do have to be amazed and awed at the fact that a billion or more people mourned the death of a single, influential man.
sure he did some good, but i think its usually the rouge priest lives amidst the turmoil danger and still helps his fellow man that should receive the glory.
just cuz the pope is who this priest would ultimately and theoretically "answer" to makes him the king shit?
but i guess it's just like our army. what really has bush done other than create an opportunity for our citizens to fight and kill in the name of patriotism?
for the short time that i was watching the news on the popey subject, a commentator mentioned that catholicism is no longer really a religion of europe, but more like the religion of the third-world.
of course many things can be inferred from this statement, but to me it again insinuates the fact that religion is a form of power and control over other people, namely those who are the most easily maleable because they have nothing to lose and everything to gain by believing in the ominous religion.
latin america and africa got deluged with popal visits over his last few good years and where has the most genocide been occuring? just these places.
they believe in catholicism and still get slaughtered.
i guess its better that way...
now they know they're going to heaven when they're brutally murdered or starved to death.
if these people were left to their own devices and prexisiting cultural beliefs, i'm sure the majority of them could easily be self-sufficient.
but land is a commodity and the first thing you have to do to gain that commodity is to either destroy or control the people that inhabit it.
and if you're not looking to personally inhabit the land, then what better way to use the land than to brainwash the natives into cultivating it for you using religious tactics.
yeah, catholicism may need to transform and bastardize itself by melding with prexisiting native beliefs, but anything in the name of progress...
however, i do have to be amazed and awed at the fact that a billion or more people mourned the death of a single, influential man.
sure he did some good, but i think its usually the rouge priest lives amidst the turmoil danger and still helps his fellow man that should receive the glory.
just cuz the pope is who this priest would ultimately and theoretically "answer" to makes him the king shit?
but i guess it's just like our army. what really has bush done other than create an opportunity for our citizens to fight and kill in the name of patriotism?
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and the you want to know why the Catholic church has been able to keep such a strong hold in these areas? Selective education. In many of those third world countries the educatoin is provided by the Catholic church, its awefully nice of them to do I must say, but they tend to leave a few things out. For example I had a guest prof from Nigeria for my enviromental science class and I almost got kicked out of class for talking about the crusades. This lady was a freaking PHD and thought I was making up the whole thing up. I talked with her after class and she said that the only school she had ever been to(before college) were the catholic schools because they were the only schools worth a damn in Nigeria, but surprise, surprise they just happened to leave out a few of the churchs not so nice moments in history.
Oh and with all the coverage of the Pope passing on I almost missed the largest outbreak of the Marburg Virus (grandfather virus of Ebola) to date in Angola...good times!
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