Haswell
Keep it going.
i'm not celebrating his death but i really wasn't sad about it, mostly indifferent. i won't pretend like i'm the most devout/faithful Christian either.
this is all going to sound like retardbabble (because i haven't looked into it at all) but i've never liked catholicism at all, even as a kid i thought it was weird how these people seemingly worshipped that man and Christ himself was put in the background.
also hot take: i think the pope figure concept in general is actually a really good way of controlling people. of course you have the obvious thing of how it dilutes people's connection to Christ, but imo there's another element to it. and that is, it removes the having faith concept entirely. the pope is a mere man, yes, but he is also concrete. he can tell you what to do, and with his status he can just say Christ told him to say that. i'm probably oversimplifying it by a lot but that's the basic idea to me
sorry if this was retarded im oddly jaded about this
this is all going to sound like retardbabble (because i haven't looked into it at all) but i've never liked catholicism at all, even as a kid i thought it was weird how these people seemingly worshipped that man and Christ himself was put in the background.
also hot take: i think the pope figure concept in general is actually a really good way of controlling people. of course you have the obvious thing of how it dilutes people's connection to Christ, but imo there's another element to it. and that is, it removes the having faith concept entirely. the pope is a mere man, yes, but he is also concrete. he can tell you what to do, and with his status he can just say Christ told him to say that. i'm probably oversimplifying it by a lot but that's the basic idea to me
sorry if this was retarded im oddly jaded about this