Irish people are having fantasies about the Catholic Church that is scaring the priests.
Quote:When Ireland Erases Its Catholic Inheritance
The findings of a recent survey commissioned by Ireland’s Iona Institute for Religion and Society have shed new light on attitudes there toward religion and the Catholic Church. The results are revealing. Sixty-one percent of respondents describe themselves as “religious and/or spiritual,” but only 16 percent are regular Mass-goers. (A higher number, 18 percent, have a positive view of astrology.) Half of adults pray, while three in ten meditate. But one finding stands out for its admirably brutal clarity. Participants in the survey were asked whether they agree or disagree with the statement: “I would be happy if the Catholic Church disappeared from Ireland completely.” Twenty-five percent answered “agree.”
In other words, one in four of the Irish (about 1.3 million people) walk around wishing to see the Catholic Church not simply further weakened or diminished, but wiped out.
A desire like this does not, of course, simply sit passively in human hearts awaiting the day of its fulfillment. It will seek laws and regulations to hasten the time of the Church’s final disappearance. Its blast will be felt in exhortations to withdraw all support for the outdated institution.
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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"
