why does every human being have a moral obligation to question the claims made by the Catholic Church? Because if we do not, we allow ourselves to become like drug addicts, addicted to the idea that the hope they sell will save us from the fears they teach us to believe and not to question. but a dependence upon hope is always proportional to that which we are taught to fear - and what could be scarier than eternal hell? and when we fear eternal hell as the just punishment for daring to doubt the claims of the Catholic Church, free will is completely nullified. To be free requires a willingness to question our fears, as such, and that includes the willingness to question beliefs that teach us to be so afraid we need the Catholic Church to save us.
I grew up in a family that is about as homophobic as Phil Robertson and the Westboro Baptists, only they're not quite as boisterous about it; at least not in public anyway. They have also conveniently convinced themselves that their homophobia is really just their unique Christian ability to "hate the sin, but love the sinner" (even though these very same Christians adamantly refuse to accept that people can "hate Christianity, but love the Christian"). The sexual superiority complex necessarily relied on by such Christians is, of course, blanketed beneath the lambs wool of the Christian humility of serving "God." They interpret their fear of those who are different, in other words, as simply proof of their intimate knowledge and love of God. And the only thing such Christians are more sure about than that their own personal version of "God" exists, is that such a "God" would never want people to be homosexual - no matter how ma...
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