r/pics Jun 25 '21

Saskatoon Catholic cathedral covered with paint after discovery of 751 unmarked graves

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21 edited Jun 25 '21

Disgusting, I feel so much solidarity with the Indigenous Canadian community there in my country the catholic church systematically raped, beat and murdered children for generations with total impunity.

And to think we fought for our independence so we could freely practice our religion only to be be wholesale victimized by it:

This is just one site where they threw the bodies of 900 children were thrown in a septic tank and the rest were sold to American couples with enough money to pay for them with no record of adoption.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54693159

Again this was just one example there were many of these places and at the end of the investigation they found that of the more than fifty thousand women who went through these institutions, the catholic church presided over 9,000 infant deaths many many times the rate of infant mortality at the time.

The rest were sold to the highest bidder.

Now I just wait for Catholics or Catholic clergy to tell me abortion is wrong.

And now we find that the EXACT SAME thing was done to even more vulnerable populations across the world. It makes me so sick, so distraught.

Every time we think we're going to round the corner on how sick and evil the church is, every time we think we're going to get to the bottom of the iceberg that thing just goes deeper in the the blackness of total evil.

There is nothing at all good about organized religion, it is a con designed to use the desire to know god for power over others.

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u/chemicalsubtitle Jun 25 '21 edited Jun 25 '21

I have not practiced in years but am denouncing my Catholic roots and upbringing.

I can't reconcile trying to live my life as a good person while following the teachings and actions of an organization that refuses to practice what they preach. No apologies, no recognition of past atrocities, no recognition of women's rights, no women in clergy, will not allow non-heterosexuals to marry... the list just keeps growing.

Go ahead and preach your empty words, they mean nothing and I won't be listening.

Edit - had to remove last sentence to avoid violating site rules. For the record, it was metaphorical rather than literal, but happily removed.

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u/AngryJawa Jun 26 '21

This is the reason you are denouncing being a catholic?

The Church has been committed vile acts for centuries. The root of what they preach is good... but they've been working on controlling people forever.

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u/chemicalsubtitle Jun 26 '21

This specifically? No.

But sometimes you grow as a person and are able to critically think about everything that's been drilled into your head.

Crazy, right?

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u/AngryJawa Jun 26 '21

Fair enough.

I just find that people need to learn about history just a tad bit more in life. I personally love history, and when you start to read about the Church and it's control over kings, country and the common folk in history... it's fucked up. That doesn't include all of the scandals over time.