Can't say that I blame them.
Quote:Record number of Belgians request Catholic disaffiliation
More than 14,000 people requested to be removed from the baptismal registers of the Catholic Church in Belgium last year, a number that almost triples the previous record, according to an annual report from the Belgian bishops.
In 2023, 14,251 people made such a request.
The number usually hovers around 1,500 people a year and had previously reached a peak of 5,237 in 2021, when the Vatican’s doctrine office stated that the Catholic Church does not have the power to bless same-sex unions — an unpopular statement for many Belgians.
The number of requests seems to have skyrocketed last year in part because of abuse scandals in the country, and especially the documentary series “Godvergeten” — Godforsaken — about abuse cases in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium.
The series prompted nationwide outrage when it was aired in Belgium in September last year, triggering a parliamentary inquiry and reportedly prompted a surge in Catholics leaving the Church.
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/record-...ns-request
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"
