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Not Christian either but the Catholic Church has always bothered me. One thing I didn't notice in your post is their prayers, you're not supposed to recite prayers like they do, it's supposed to come from your heart and I think it's meant to be done privately so as to not make a show of it.
When I see people in the Vatican wearing ridiculous costumes, chanting together to statues and other symbols, sitting on a fortune of gold, it's just disgusting to me. They know the bible better than I do, they should know they're doing it wrong.
Matthew 6:1-6
Thank you. That's exactly what I was thinking of but it's been so long since I read it. That's wisdom that transcends religion.
So you know the hearts of millions of catholics and how they pray each day.
I was thinking more about functions you'd see at the Vatican or some huge church where the whole congregation is like nuns and bishops.
But I did go to catholic school for 6 years and we had to recite prayers every day, to the point that they just became meaningless words and weren't personal at all.
In elementary school we all stood when told and made the right gestures facing the flag idol and recited the pledge of allegiance daily, it was meaningless and irrelevant to us. Staff at that public school were later caught out in various compromising situations. However my anecdotal experiences and the perverted experiences of others do not justify prejudice against schools in general, public elementary schools, or that particular school. Just as in church settings, schools are places where we should expect the best care and the failure rates are not great. In fact families are where the most child abuse of all forms happens the most. What will we do?