Re: The Decline of Religion in Europe
Reply #189 –
Well the Roman Church needs money very much and especially in places like America where there have been repeated law cases against Dioceses and included those who had to be bankrupted on sex charges! Oh and let us not forget the activities of the Vatican Bank over the years and the corruption, money laundering, etc. These sex charges are not in the stance of an occasional thing they are deeply built in for centuries and even since some old Red sock stopped priests from marrying and they were to be married to the Church instead. That proved to be a farce because the dilly-dallying continued and flourished. It was only in more modern times and a wider and broader society when the matter got challenged as in previous centuries there was too much fear on the power of that Church.
Also kind of bemusing that the main background of most of the top and inner leaders of the Hitler top boys were from what background, eh? The one who was a Protestant I know about was Hess. He flew to Britain seriously wanting peace. Even Mussolini had to have a pact with the Vatican to ensure power and I mentioned here a while back of photos of Church leaders in Yugoslavia during WW2 meeting the Nazis and doing the salute. In that same country was a death camp holding Serbs who had a commandant who was a priest! Italy, Spain. Portugal all had dictatorships. Surprise, surprise! Due to corruption of a once very strong exponent of Romanism, Ireland, has vastly plummeted due to spiritual corruption. Indeed 2 investigations by authorities. These were on the Archdiocese of Dublin and the equal one for the rest of the Irish republic. Shocking was a light reaction and unlike yesteryear when the Church really told the government and the police what to do, Ireland is a far wider and better educated place seeing the light!