Catholism = Hypocracy [Part 1]

Disclaimer: This probably will offend most people. I would apologize but I am not sorry. Feel free to argue with me. It would be nice.

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I guess I fail to see the glamor of the Catholic Church. Many of it's laws contradict what the Church as a whole supports and does. It may be because I was disillusioned with the Catholic Church only two years ago but I did my research before I completely turned my back on the Church. Let me break it down for you.

War

The fifth commandment of the Christianity is: "THOU SHALT NOT KILL." Seems easy enough to follow. Right? Sadly enough, this is not true. No I'm not talking about individual killing. I'm speaking of global wars, religious wars, and any war that the Catholic Church agrees with.

Pulled directly from the Vatican website:

Avoiding war

The fifth commandment forbids the intentional destruction of human life. Because of the evils and injustices that accompany all war, the Church insistently urges everyone to prayer and to action so that the divine Goodness may free us from the ancient bondage of war.104

All citizens and all governments are obliged to work for the avoidance of war.

However, "as long as the danger of war persists and there is no international authority with the necessary competence and power, governments cannot be denied the right of lawful self-defense, once all peace efforts have failed."

The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. The gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time:

- the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;

- all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;

- there must be serious prospects of success;

- the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power of modem means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition.

Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man, which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation."109 A danger of modern warfare is that it provides the opportunity to those who possess modern scientific weapons especially atomic, biological, or chemical weapons - to commit such crimes."

Reading this, it would seem that the Catholic Church has a fairly good idea on war. War = Bad, so to speak. But still their actions and words contradict what they have written.

The Crusades
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"Crusades were fought against Muslims, pagan Slavs, Russian and Greek Orthodox Christians, Mongols, Cathars, Hussites, and political enemies of the popes."

The original goal of the Crusades was to recapture Jerusalem from the Muslims but they were soon diverted to other goals.

The Crusades had far-reaching political, economic, and social impacts, some of which have lasted into contemporary times. Because of internal conflicts among Christian kingdoms and political powers, some of the crusade expeditions were diverted from their original aim, such as the Fourth Crusade, which resulted in the sack of Christian Constantinople and the partition of the Byzantine Empire between Venice and the Crusaders. The Sixth Crusade was the first crusade to set sail without the official blessing of the Pope, establishing the precedent that rulers other than the Pope could initiate a crusade.

But the history of the Crusades is obscured and made to look like a grand series of wars. But the Vatican website and other major websites fail to acknowledge what truly happened during the Crusades.

During the Fourth Crusade and the sacking of the Christian Constantinople, the Roman Catholic Crusaders sacked the Cathedrals and Greek Catholic churches. They dragged the nuns out by their hair and raped and murdered them in the streets.

Sure if you're looking at the Ten Commandments rape is not mentioned, but supposedly God said, "Don't kill."

The Church fails to explain why they allowed this, nor did they even say that they started the Crusades.

to be continued...