The Catholic Church Wants to Remind You That God Thinks Gay Marriages Are Gross

[Warpy]

6. I'm not sure when it became ossified into a death cult

but the combination of the Plague followed by the Reformation seems to have done it. Barren sterility and asceticism are praised to the skies whole anything done to sustain life and make it bearable is seen as inherently evil.

My Irish granny was "churched" after the birth of my mother--that's where you go to beg forgiveness for the carnal sin involved in conceiving a baby. Men were never required to do that, they never bore the outward stigma of pregnancy--only pox, which they gleefully passed on to their wives and then blamed on them.

I was done with that rotten organization when I was ten and pitched a fit to get out of Catholic school, where the entire burden of guilt over the bad behavior of men was all our fault for being evil temptresses. As children.

Funny, most of the strongest atheists I know IRL are refugees from Catholic schools.

And you're right, the RCC is the last vestige of the Roman Empire, which gave it the rigid hierarchy and bad statuary, along with palace intrigues and kicking company people upstairs to become demigods.