[Kyle]

Originally posted by GT40FIED
Well the catholic church is definitely one of the more fucked up churches simply because of it's vast hierarchy that many other churches don't have. But all christian churches, to an extent, have taken a lot of the focus off of "god" by playing childish games and making unreasonable demands of the laymen. If "god" is truely all about love and acceptance, then why shun anyone who doesn't agree with your philosophy of religion and deem them heretical? This is, again, more previlent in the catholic church, but also alive and well in other sects of christianity. Take mormons (ironic you can take one letter out and it becomes "morons"), for example. My great aunt's son converted to mormonism (they recruit HEAVILY in the military...which is his career) and she couldn't attend her own daughter's wedding since mormons don't allow any "non-believers" into their temples. Or the southern baptists' particularly unenlightened crusade against homosexuality. Or Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs that anyone not believing what they velieve, no matter how pious, will be held in a lesser position in the afterlife. It's not limited to christianity either. Look at how jews and muslims fight non-stop simply over ideological differences (and sometimes petty arguements over who owns a particular section of dirt and sand). It's all about exclusion and ignorance in a usually passive aggressive fashion.

nicely put