My views on objective morality

[God of Mr. Hanky]

But who wrote HIS book? Not the Pope himself, no that was God, right? Or was it? If it was your god, then how can you believe it's best to put a mortal dude in a dress above God's own words? If it wasn't God, then why bother with that book at all - how do you know if any of it is any good?

It does seem that Catholics put a lot of blind faith in one man, as if he were an incarnation of God himself, and this observation is more than anything else what inspired the great schism which was known as the Protestant Reformation.

No, God did not write the bible. He inspired the bible, but it was still written by men, through the filter of men. Not by the hand of God.

Then in that case on what grounds is anything that your popes say validified? I think you just told us that it's all on account of you, the followers, believing them!

Why does god need a filter for any messages which he may have for humanity? If he inspired the books, then how can they not really be his own words? We're talking about one who is supposed to be the most powerful superbeing in this universe and (possibly) beyond, therefore why would he need the middlemen who are (or were) apostles, writers of scriptures, priests, bishops, cardinals, or popes? What use does he really have for the Vatican? He may as well get a starship too, if one can be provided by his followers, and reasoning for this fails likewise.