(November 26, 2022 at 10:12 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: "When the Pope is willing to work a regular job and support a family of four in a dingy apartment on minimum wages, then I might be willing to hear what he has to say about birth control." (George Carlin)
My guess is that the pope and priests think that they talking directly to God and therefore think that they have the authority to write books on marital problems, although they have not just never been married, but are virgins.
They think that they are like Jedis talking to the force.
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"
