The most rabid of Christians, like the most rabid of Muslims, have fallen hopelessly in love with their own minds, and the belief that their own convictions are actually "infallible, universal truths" that come from, and indeed reflect, the will of God Himself - the creator and moral author of the universe.
(That such a God famously ignores such "moral" laws, and often commands his "faithful" flocks to do the same, never causes a single "follower" of such "beliefs" to question the blatant contradiction, that atheists forever implore them to consider as the "truest" fruit of their faith, is a miracle of denial that would even make the Devil green with envy.)
As such, they look at the world and "know," with absolute certainty, that they are infallibly "right" in all they proclaim about the nature of virtually everything, especially anything in any way related to sex.
That they proclaim to be "humble" in this absolute certitude (at least publicly, regardless of what their own personal doubts may be - because they feel they can never show such "weakness" to others, apparently), to the point that they see it as the highest virtue of all to die as martyrs for their all too human "beliefs" about what it means to be human, only proves how a pride far greater than Milton's Lucifer can so easily be concealed behind a curtain of priestly robes, all of whom agree only that they each have "infallible" knowledge of the infinite mind of a God that is infinitely more complex than ourselves.
In truth, however, none of them as individuals actually ever really agree on which interpretation of that "infallible knowledge" is necessarily the right one, in every detail, as any cursory conversation about ethics and morality with a couple of priests will reveal. That's part of why so many of them dislike Pope Francis, for example.
But they do, nevertheless, believe that their collective differences are the very cauldrons brew from which they can divine what it is, even as they deny that people who are not as 'ordained' as they are, not only have no right to contributing to that interpretation (which only ever serves first to strengthen the absolute importance of the Church itself to the "believer"), but have a duty to follow whatever the Church says it is.
And perhaps most ironic of all, by far, is that they actually claim, and Christians actually are willing to believe, that all of this is truly an act of undeniable humility. And they "know" this for sure, of course, because the entire universe was made by the most all powerful God ever, specifically for us, and no one and nothing else.
Period.
"Double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble."
(That such a God famously ignores such "moral" laws, and often commands his "faithful" flocks to do the same, never causes a single "follower" of such "beliefs" to question the blatant contradiction, that atheists forever implore them to consider as the "truest" fruit of their faith, is a miracle of denial that would even make the Devil green with envy.)
As such, they look at the world and "know," with absolute certainty, that they are infallibly "right" in all they proclaim about the nature of virtually everything, especially anything in any way related to sex.
That they proclaim to be "humble" in this absolute certitude (at least publicly, regardless of what their own personal doubts may be - because they feel they can never show such "weakness" to others, apparently), to the point that they see it as the highest virtue of all to die as martyrs for their all too human "beliefs" about what it means to be human, only proves how a pride far greater than Milton's Lucifer can so easily be concealed behind a curtain of priestly robes, all of whom agree only that they each have "infallible" knowledge of the infinite mind of a God that is infinitely more complex than ourselves.
In truth, however, none of them as individuals actually ever really agree on which interpretation of that "infallible knowledge" is necessarily the right one, in every detail, as any cursory conversation about ethics and morality with a couple of priests will reveal. That's part of why so many of them dislike Pope Francis, for example.
But they do, nevertheless, believe that their collective differences are the very cauldrons brew from which they can divine what it is, even as they deny that people who are not as 'ordained' as they are, not only have no right to contributing to that interpretation (which only ever serves first to strengthen the absolute importance of the Church itself to the "believer"), but have a duty to follow whatever the Church says it is.
And perhaps most ironic of all, by far, is that they actually claim, and Christians actually are willing to believe, that all of this is truly an act of undeniable humility. And they "know" this for sure, of course, because the entire universe was made by the most all powerful God ever, specifically for us, and no one and nothing else.
Period.
"Double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble."
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