(June 17, 2020 at 10:42 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: The RCC could get them back with meaningful reform, but just keeping their donations coming doesn't advance the cause of reform.
Yeah why don't they reform to stop being lying egomaniac criminal club who wants to rule over people's lives and rape their kids?
But also if they tried to do some reforms that people are expecting them to do, like letting girls be priests or to allow gay people to get married then maybe they would lose more sheep than gain ones because there are many Catholics who wouldn't approve and go away, like after Vatican II reform which created Sedes Catholics who refuse to listen mass that is not in Latin, bow to Pope, and similar nonsense.
Not to mention that if women could be priests then a woman could be a Pope which would really drive out many sheep.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
