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.
If Ben Shapiro really wants answers to his condemnations of BLM, he should start by reading a few books, and then some. For example, he can find all of the answer's he's looking for in: Slavery By Another Name , by Douglas Blackmon, which shows how "thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking force and brutality," right up until the 1970s, when I was still in grade school. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness , by Civil Rights litigator and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, which explains how "mass incarceration" under the ruse of a War on Drugs, has effectively created a caste system that is as pronounced in America today as it was in the Jim Crow south, if not more. Ghosts of Jim Crow , which was written by Constitutional Law Professor, F. Michael Higgenbotham, which explains in great detail how "the shadows of Jim Crow era laws and attitudes continue to perpetuate insidious, ...
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