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| St Peter's Basilica |
"If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possession, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven."
-- Jesus of Nazareth in Matthew 19:21, New International Version translation
Seriously, I don't get it. Jesus Christ himself said those words, YES, THAT JESUS CHRIST! The dude who are believed to be God by the Christians, who died on a crucifix, and resurrected after spending 3 days in a grave! That dude order his followers to be modest, to sold their belongings in order to help the poor!
Then why the hell the largest Christian organization, the Catholic church, is so ... extravagant? They already built thousands of spectacular cathedrals and basilicas all over the world, but NO, that is not enough!! They need to put their supreme leader on a golden throne! Do they really READ their own holy script?
Oh yeah, the supreme leader also even had THE NERVE to ask Christians to look beyond "the superficial glitters" of Christmas! Holy hell, what's next, Josef Stalin ask Hitler not to shoot Russian soldiers?
Tell you what, let's conduct a small internet experiment.
1) Search in wikipedia, which countries has Catholic majority!
Got it!
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Okay, now we got the map where the Catholic church has real power on the field, where the voice of the church are definitely heard by its people, where the people definitely donate some of their money every Sunday to the Catholic church.
2) Let's see ... are all dark blue countries all developed/rich countries?
Of course not. Let's pick some poor Catholic countries like ... CONGO!! Yeah, let's pick Congo, it is located in the middle of the map!
3) Search in google image "Congo children" ...
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Let's see what's we got ... the first 2 images are those 2 pictures on the left and right. Holy Christ!! Some of those children even armed to the teeth!! Those poor souls not only depraved of money and playtime, they even don't have their innocence anymore! When OUR children complained about maths homework, those children in Congo complained about the lack of ammos!
And even more depressing, other images are more or less similar with those 2 ...
Surely the Catholic church could help, at least show some solidarity by selling all of their Cathedrals, Basilicas, and golden throne to finance a relief program for those poor souls. No? They can't do that or don't want to do that?
Okay, okay, maybe the church could argue Congo is a war-torn country, Vatican is not a country famous for its military capability, so military intervention to secure the relief projects are somehow out of the scope of the church. Never mind the fact that their money could be used to finance peacekeeping operation there. So let's pick another country like ... err .. Mexico? And let's focus to the poverty, not to the children.
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3) Search in google image "Mexican poor" ...
Okay ... who wants to live in these kind of housings? Anyone?
And those photos are underrepresentation of the contrast. Really. You have to remember, the Catholic church already existed for more than 1 millennium. You also have to remember that they financed and built HUNDREDS or even THOUSANDS of cathedrals, and basilicas while the poor shaking in cold and hunger.
Even more amazing is, they built their spectacular St Peter's Basilica even when they didn't have the money!
How I know they didn't even have the money? Simple, because they were forced to sell the literal "tickets to heaven" to finance it. That's right, they asked their followers to finance their vanity project. The poor and pennyless included. But nooo, that was not the best part! The best part was, some people were extremely pissed by this. One of them named Martin Luther. He nailed his protest on the door of Castle Church of Wittenberg. The rest is history.
So, in essence, the Vatican build spectacular buildings DESPITE existing poverty, DESPITE the fact that they didn't own any money so they were shameless enough to ask money from the poor, and in the end they lost millions of souls due to the reformation?
Nice job burying yourself under your own bullshit! I know they were and are not the brightest bulb, but this ... this is still one big holy shit ...
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