The Catholic church does not represent a majority of Christians, and few countries are politically tied to it. Religions of this world basically fall into three groups, Abrahamic, Polytheistic from India, and Confusionism/Budhism. Each hold a far higher standard of value on lives (at least those of their followers). None are perfect. …
The Catholic church does not represent a majority of Christians, and few countries are politically tied to it. Religions of this world basically fall into three groups, Abrahamic, Polytheistic from India, and Confusionism/Budhism. Each hold a far higher standard of value on lives (at least those of their followers). None are perfect. But a complete lack of such a moral compass is a major detriment to any society and Marxist regimes have proven this over and over again.
“The Catholic church does not represent a majority of Christians”
I mean, that’s debatable, but hopefully we can agree that they should be a prime example of people who derive their moral compass from God. And while we have to speculate about the motivation for the actions of people like Stalin and Mao, the evil carried out in the name of religion was unequivocally motivated by a belief that it was Gods will.
I’m not saying this to attack religion. Evil is a human condition, not a specifically religious one. But your claim that religion is a protection against this condition doesn’t seem to bear much scrutiny.
This information took me less than ten seconds to find. I think it safe to assume that the rest of the data you post, with its abundance of right wing tropes, is similarly accurate, and you are similarly disinterested in actual facts.
Your repeated statement that atheists lack morals is as valuable as an overflowing septic tank. Show me a believer whose faith moves him to oppose an injustice and I will show you a thousand who believe with absolute conviction that the injustice is the will of their imaginary playmate.
50.1% is no more a majority than 49.9% because there is not Christian government that they all vote in. The majority of Catholics are in poor countries with little influence in Latin America.
Based on what? What do you know about Christianity that would lead you to the conclusion that non-Papists would follow Catholic ideology or allow the Pope to speak for them? Everything that has been trotted out as condemnation of Christians is not applicable to 49.9% of Christians and mostly based on events that are from hundreds of years ago.
Who do you think was calling out the pedo priests the loudest? Every non-Catholic Christian! There's a reason that Protestants encourage Reverends to be married and have families. And in the scheme of things, far fewer children are being abused by priests than are being scarred for life by Covid-19.
1) there are millions of celibate people who don't molest children. The factor that concentrates pedophilia in Catholic priests is likely something else.
2) the comparison with COVID makes no sense what so fucking ever.
> the comparison with COVID makes no sense what so fucking ever.
Yes, it does. Human Rights, whether we are talking about the right to life or the right to not be assaulted are both driven by morality that values human life. Yes, I know there are different thresholds of what constitutes a violation of Human Rights, and those scales can make one group more repugnant than another based on where your thresholds are. The point of my comment was that the CCP, and especially Xi Jinping clearly have a very, very low threshold for what is acceptable to do to another person in comparison to the majority of people today that follow one of the Abrahamic religions. Even among Muslims, the majority are peaceful and value the lives of non-Muslims, but the actions of radicals overshadow them. In the case of the CCP, the entire party is devoid of a moral code that values human life, so things like removing the liver of a Falon Gong follower while he's alive doesn't raise any eyebrow within the CCP.
The Catholic church does not represent a majority of Christians, and few countries are politically tied to it. Religions of this world basically fall into three groups, Abrahamic, Polytheistic from India, and Confusionism/Budhism. Each hold a far higher standard of value on lives (at least those of their followers). None are perfect. But a complete lack of such a moral compass is a major detriment to any society and Marxist regimes have proven this over and over again.
“The Catholic church does not represent a majority of Christians”
I mean, that’s debatable, but hopefully we can agree that they should be a prime example of people who derive their moral compass from God. And while we have to speculate about the motivation for the actions of people like Stalin and Mao, the evil carried out in the name of religion was unequivocally motivated by a belief that it was Gods will.
I’m not saying this to attack religion. Evil is a human condition, not a specifically religious one. But your claim that religion is a protection against this condition doesn’t seem to bear much scrutiny.
"The Catholic church does not represent a majority of Christians"
In a stunning and wholly unexpected turn of events, you are wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations_by_number_of_members
Catholics: 50.1%
Protestants: 36.7%
This information took me less than ten seconds to find. I think it safe to assume that the rest of the data you post, with its abundance of right wing tropes, is similarly accurate, and you are similarly disinterested in actual facts.
Your repeated statement that atheists lack morals is as valuable as an overflowing septic tank. Show me a believer whose faith moves him to oppose an injustice and I will show you a thousand who believe with absolute conviction that the injustice is the will of their imaginary playmate.
50.1% is no more a majority than 49.9% because there is not Christian government that they all vote in. The majority of Catholics are in poor countries with little influence in Latin America.
I have a cockatoo who makes more sense than you
Based on what? What do you know about Christianity that would lead you to the conclusion that non-Papists would follow Catholic ideology or allow the Pope to speak for them? Everything that has been trotted out as condemnation of Christians is not applicable to 49.9% of Christians and mostly based on events that are from hundreds of years ago.
Yes like the aggressive protection of pedophile priests. Centuries ago. Siding against gays and lesbians in social policy. Far in the past.
Do just go away.
As for what I know about Christianity… bring it. Let’s start with the Valentian Heresy, Iranaeus, Origen and Tertullian. Anytime, Anywhere.
Who do you think was calling out the pedo priests the loudest? Every non-Catholic Christian! There's a reason that Protestants encourage Reverends to be married and have families. And in the scheme of things, far fewer children are being abused by priests than are being scarred for life by Covid-19.
1) there are millions of celibate people who don't molest children. The factor that concentrates pedophilia in Catholic priests is likely something else.
2) the comparison with COVID makes no sense what so fucking ever.
> the comparison with COVID makes no sense what so fucking ever.
Yes, it does. Human Rights, whether we are talking about the right to life or the right to not be assaulted are both driven by morality that values human life. Yes, I know there are different thresholds of what constitutes a violation of Human Rights, and those scales can make one group more repugnant than another based on where your thresholds are. The point of my comment was that the CCP, and especially Xi Jinping clearly have a very, very low threshold for what is acceptable to do to another person in comparison to the majority of people today that follow one of the Abrahamic religions. Even among Muslims, the majority are peaceful and value the lives of non-Muslims, but the actions of radicals overshadow them. In the case of the CCP, the entire party is devoid of a moral code that values human life, so things like removing the liver of a Falon Gong follower while he's alive doesn't raise any eyebrow within the CCP.
Yeah Denmark is a slaughterhouse, right?