Thursday, April 15, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Why Are Preachers Always the Most Bigoted People?
Why is is that preachers, who are supposed to preach love and teach you how to live like God wants you to, are always the most bigoted people around? They tell you to hate gay people, they tell you to hate Jews, they tell you to hate Muslims. They even tell you to hate Christians! One of the groups of people that Preachers hate the most is Catholics (this is going to be the main point of this post). I am sick and tired of people thinking that Catholics are bad just because their bigoted preacher tells them that they are. Ask anyone who thinks that Catholics are going to Hell why they think that way, and they can't tell you. Oh, they will try to come up with some way to justify their thoughts, but they can't actually point out anything. Well, other than the dumbass pedophile priests. But this has been going on for centuries, while the child molestation has been happening for 25-30 years (that we know of).
Everything can always be traced back to (at least) one of these two things: Money and Power.
Through out history, everything has been about one of these two. Ironically, the Catholic Church is a great example of this. Through out most of its history, powerful people have been attracted to the Church's ability to mandate exactly how you should live your life. Power hungry people are attracted to places with lots of power, and it was much easier to gain power through the Church than it was to become a King. This has caused some of the worst tragedies since the beginning of mankind. Well, until Communism came along (I doubt it if the Catholic Church had 120 million people put to death in less than a century as Communism has). I am planning on writing a longer, much better researched post on this topic, so be on the look out in the near future for a great history of the corruption of the Catholic Church though out it's 2,000 year history and how it applies to our world today.
The power hungry will always look for ways to get more power and more money, and religion is a great way to accomplish this. Once you have become a member of a church, you have accepted the minister as your spiritual guide. So, you have already made up your mind that he is correct, and that you will follow his advice no matter what he says. So, when he says that certain people are going to Hell because they don't do exactly what he (supposedly) does, you will believe it.
The Catholic Church is one of the only two churches on Earth that can trace their heritage directly back to Jesus (the other being Greek Orthodox), so how exactly is your preacher right when he says that the church that Jesus created is wrong? Didn't your church break away and start doing things different from the way that Jesus said to do them? Oh, I'm wrong about that? What about the fact that Most Bibles have missing Books called the Apocrypha? And no, I'm not talking about the Dead Sea Scrolls. No Bible has never contained those. They were left out when the Council of Nicea decided which Christian Holy Books would be included in the Bible, which happened in 325 AD (I think). I am talking about books that were originally included, but where removed by Protestant reformers during the 17th Century.
Sure, in historical times the Catholic Church was used by the power hungry to oppress the masses and obtain more power. But the roles have now changed. The Catholic Church has now moved to the position that it should have held through history, and Protestant churches have become the centers of power and corruption.
How many times have you seen a preacher driving a Jaguar? I know I've seen many. Why do they need you to keep donating money? Where does it go? Why is it that they NEVER have money, and ALWAYS need you to give more?
At least with Catholic Priests, you know that they do not have a family to support, and so they are not worried about getting money to buy their wife a new BMW or needing to send their kids to college. They have taken a vow of poverty and chastity, and so are not worried about the things that money can buy. They know that if they forgo those things here on Earth, they will have a special place in Heaven. Your preacher, on the other hand, does not feel this way. And I've heard all of the arguments about priests being able to get married leading to them not molesting children. But thats not allowed today, and you complaining about it on this blog will do nothing but make you look like an idiot with no argument against what I have posted. So don't.
Th more that your preacher talks bad about the Catholic Church, the less likely it is that you will leave his church. If he can keep you there, he will get more money. The larger the congregation is, the more power he has. So, you see, everything is about money and power.
I'm not sure about other people, but I know that I have never heard ANY Catholic priests talk bad about anyone. The Pope says some things about homosexuality and abortion, but he usually says nothing about the people involved. "Hate the sin, not the sinner". Hating the sinner (or the Catholic, in this case) makes you no better than those idiots from Kansas that protest at soldiers funerals. The only difference is that they have taken the messages of your preacher to their inevitably violent ends. Do you really want to be associated with those dumbasses?
Now, I know that not all preachers are this way. There are some that are truly doing what they do because they feel like they have been called by God. But, the majority of the ones that I have come into contact with are exactly as I have described. And before you go off in a comment about how your preacher is the greatest thing on Earth and is only doing Gods bidding and is better than me, ask your self these questions:
Everything can always be traced back to (at least) one of these two things: Money and Power.
Through out history, everything has been about one of these two. Ironically, the Catholic Church is a great example of this. Through out most of its history, powerful people have been attracted to the Church's ability to mandate exactly how you should live your life. Power hungry people are attracted to places with lots of power, and it was much easier to gain power through the Church than it was to become a King. This has caused some of the worst tragedies since the beginning of mankind. Well, until Communism came along (I doubt it if the Catholic Church had 120 million people put to death in less than a century as Communism has). I am planning on writing a longer, much better researched post on this topic, so be on the look out in the near future for a great history of the corruption of the Catholic Church though out it's 2,000 year history and how it applies to our world today.
The power hungry will always look for ways to get more power and more money, and religion is a great way to accomplish this. Once you have become a member of a church, you have accepted the minister as your spiritual guide. So, you have already made up your mind that he is correct, and that you will follow his advice no matter what he says. So, when he says that certain people are going to Hell because they don't do exactly what he (supposedly) does, you will believe it.
The Catholic Church is one of the only two churches on Earth that can trace their heritage directly back to Jesus (the other being Greek Orthodox), so how exactly is your preacher right when he says that the church that Jesus created is wrong? Didn't your church break away and start doing things different from the way that Jesus said to do them? Oh, I'm wrong about that? What about the fact that Most Bibles have missing Books called the Apocrypha? And no, I'm not talking about the Dead Sea Scrolls. No Bible has never contained those. They were left out when the Council of Nicea decided which Christian Holy Books would be included in the Bible, which happened in 325 AD (I think). I am talking about books that were originally included, but where removed by Protestant reformers during the 17th Century.
Sure, in historical times the Catholic Church was used by the power hungry to oppress the masses and obtain more power. But the roles have now changed. The Catholic Church has now moved to the position that it should have held through history, and Protestant churches have become the centers of power and corruption.
How many times have you seen a preacher driving a Jaguar? I know I've seen many. Why do they need you to keep donating money? Where does it go? Why is it that they NEVER have money, and ALWAYS need you to give more?
At least with Catholic Priests, you know that they do not have a family to support, and so they are not worried about getting money to buy their wife a new BMW or needing to send their kids to college. They have taken a vow of poverty and chastity, and so are not worried about the things that money can buy. They know that if they forgo those things here on Earth, they will have a special place in Heaven. Your preacher, on the other hand, does not feel this way. And I've heard all of the arguments about priests being able to get married leading to them not molesting children. But thats not allowed today, and you complaining about it on this blog will do nothing but make you look like an idiot with no argument against what I have posted. So don't.
Th more that your preacher talks bad about the Catholic Church, the less likely it is that you will leave his church. If he can keep you there, he will get more money. The larger the congregation is, the more power he has. So, you see, everything is about money and power.
I'm not sure about other people, but I know that I have never heard ANY Catholic priests talk bad about anyone. The Pope says some things about homosexuality and abortion, but he usually says nothing about the people involved. "Hate the sin, not the sinner". Hating the sinner (or the Catholic, in this case) makes you no better than those idiots from Kansas that protest at soldiers funerals. The only difference is that they have taken the messages of your preacher to their inevitably violent ends. Do you really want to be associated with those dumbasses?
Now, I know that not all preachers are this way. There are some that are truly doing what they do because they feel like they have been called by God. But, the majority of the ones that I have come into contact with are exactly as I have described. And before you go off in a comment about how your preacher is the greatest thing on Earth and is only doing Gods bidding and is better than me, ask your self these questions:
- Does my preacher have a nice car, or is he driving an old beat up jalopy?
- Does my preacher's wife have nice jewelry? Nice clothes? A nice car? Are these things nicer than the average person's in my congregation?
- Is my preacher ALWAYS asking for more money? Does he let you see what he does with that money?
- Does my preacher ever talk bad about others? Why does he do this?
- Does my preacher tell us that the only way to get into Heaven is by doing what he does? Or does he let the Bible speak for itself? (hint: most have no idea what the TRUE meaning behind the Bible is)
As an example of preachers that are like this, please see:
- Jimmy Swaggart - frequent visits to prostitutes; lived the life of his cousins Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley (that he made a career railing against)
- Billy Graham - divorce; money whore
- Joel Olsteen - largest church in the country, makes million of dollars every year (what happened to "The meek will inherit the Earth?")
- Jerry Falwell - preached hate against homosexuals and Jews (kinda like Hitler did!)
- Jesse Jackson - racist; hate monger
- Al Sharpton - Tawana Brawly; racist; hate monger
- Jim Bakker - charged by the Federal Government with 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy
- Ted Haggard - preached hate against gays, but was let go from his position as pastor of New Life Church because of sexual relations with a male escort
- John Hagee - made claims in one of his books that Jesus is not the son of God
- Pat Robertson - claimed that Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti earthquake were done by God because people sin
All of these men claim(ed) to do Gods work and claim to be oh-so-holy, yet they lead lives completely at odds with everything the Bible says. Some did horrible things, and some merely followed the context of this post and did everything that they could to get more and more money. The seduction of power and money is great, and these men made the "best" of their situation in regards to these.
Remember, the only time that Jesus ever became angry was when the money changers were in the Temple. Sounds oddly similar to everything that has been described here.
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