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Do As We Say, Not As We Do

Basically, Catholicism teaches you that the thing you should hate most about yourself is your ability to doubt the divine infallibility of the Catholic Church, regardless of how truly fallible the Catholic Church repeatedly demonatrates itself to be. (That Church also wants you to believe that you can only be good enough to be loved by God if you first believe you murdered God, and will be cast into hell if you refuse to "believe" you did.) In fact, never before in the history of the world has one institution amassed such power by hypnotizing its followers with claims of "infallibility" when it preaches on faith and morals, while being so fallible in putting the morals it preaches into practice. Indeed, by far the most infallible statement that can be said to be true of the Catholic Church is that it stands as a shining example of just how profitable it can be to convince the world to "do what we say, not what we do" (because if you don't, God is gonna roast you alive forever - becasue he 'loves you' exactly that much).

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