CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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The Catholic Church, a Multi Billion Dollar Corporation

Saturday, May 17, 2008

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I know a girl at work who is Catholic. She's a sweetheart through and through, and I have absolutely nothing against her. But religion absolutely boggles my mind, and it comes up sometimes in ways that I don't necessarily understand. She's the oldest of 12 children, and there are near a hundred direct cousins. I'm not talking about second cousins and removed cousins and all that. There are almost 100 first cousins in her generation. She's only in her mid twenties and has four children, and although she doesn't want more, she told me that she and her husband don't use the pull-out method, and she will probably have more. She said, "Pulling out is against my religion."

What she's referring to is Onanism, and is in fact against her religion. In the book of Genesis, Onan is even struck down by God for spilling his seed.

So while the Bible specifically gives a thumbs down to pulling out, it also specifically gives the thumbs up to a daughter tricking her father into having sex with her and impregnating her. I only wish I were joking, but if you don't believe me, look up Genesis 19:36.

Now, the girl I'm talking about is a sweet, sweet girl, so I have nothing specific against her line of thinking. She's told by people she obviously who she obviously respects that spilling the seed is against God, so who is she to question that? Granted, I would question that, but I'm also a lot more cynical than she is. Yet what is amusing is that people say you can't pick and choose what you follow from the Bible, that every little thing counts, when clearly everybody does in fact pick and choose what they follow in the Bible, or else nobody would care about these communes where people are having sex with their daughters and children. That's very clearly fucked up, and it's very clearly barbaric-- but it's endorsed by the Bible. So if you don't follow one idiotic rule that doesn't make any sense, why not just ignore all the idiotic rules that don't make any sense? It was written at a weird time where people believed weird things, and people very clearly understand that even if they won't admit it. They say that the Bible applies to today, but again, nobody is encouraging young girls to trick their fathers into having sex with them, so they obviously know subconsciously that lots of things in the Bible have absolutely no application for nowadays, and there are plenty of things that probably couldn't even apply then. Or else, and this is very likely, they've never read the damn thing other than for the scriptures their church leader points out for his lecture during service.

What I don't understand is why the Catholic church would still be ingraining this ridiculous doctrine into people. It's not okay to pull out. Like Monty Python says, every sperm is sacred. Actually, I take that back, I do understand, I just don't understand how people could possibly be blind enough to not see right through it. The Church obviously don't see all Biblical laws as being equal-- they pick and choose what they prioritize and to teach people. They see other scripture as being too obviously barbaric. The incest thing is obviously a pile of shit. But the "don't pull out" thing? Obviously that's a huge priority, as is not using birth control. Controlling the private moments of people's sexual lives is of the utmost importance, while that whole "don't have sex with children" thing that we all should know isn't exactly at the top of the "to do" list.

What in the world could possibly be in the Catholic Church's self-interest to teach its parishioners that pulling out of all things was against God? What the hell could the church possibly care? Why would this need to be drilled into people's heads over and over? Why in the world would this possibly be a priority? And the answer is numbers. No church in the world wants people to have just one child, because that would create diminishing returns. The Catholic Church, a multi billion dollar corporation-- and don't fool yourself into thinking it's anything but that, nobody needs an elaborate, infallible system of hierarchy to read the Bible and praise the Lord-- requires masses in order to maintain itself and its lifestyle, like all other institutional organizations. All that money doesn't actually come from God, it comes from the Church's multitudinous followers. It needs its audience of hundreds of millions to keep its position as infallible as it is, and this has always been the case throughout time. When it comes down to it, the institution doesn't care about people, it cares about numbers, just like any institution. It has been that way since the beginning of its creation. If only a few thousand people followed the Catholic church, the Church wouldn't be able to bully people around the way it does, wouldn't be able to demand the things it demands, and get away with the things it gets away with-- it wouldn't be able to exercise its power that it so brazenly craves. Although it may say that it cares about numbers of souls it saves, the giant glazed marble and glass city of awe that is the Vatican isn't maintained on souls, it's maintained on the money it takes from those souls. The Vatican; the place on Earth where the holiest person on Earth resides, the man who is closest to Jesus, as to talk directly to Him and spread His divinity to His followers. And of course, we all know Jesus, a man known for his garish, over-the-top tastes, for living in castles emblazoned in pretty, sparkling stones and all manner of glamorous glass, who used to travel around being carried on a throne, had a giant, blinding hat, and carried an elaborate, ornate walking stick, so obviously he would approve of all this ridiculous extravagance.

The Mormon church has become "the fastest growing religion in the world" through the exact same means-- exploding families that keep spreading out exponentially, like viruses, all for leverage against other religions, all for numbers. And frankly, that sort of cynicism boggles my mind. I can't see how anyone couldn't be as disgusted with churches as much as I am, because it's not like any religion hides its sinister motives.
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with love from CRS @ 9:41 AM 

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