As a formerly religious, but still spiritual person, I believe that religions have caused more overall suffering, malevolent, and murderous behaviours than any other factor in all of human existence.
I went thru catholic school with 3 hours a week of religion spoonfed and obligatory mass on wednesday mornings before school and sundays and then catholic univ with deontology and philosophy and others ending in y
But it is only afterwards I red about the Children Crusade and the Killing them all including woman and children of the Albegensis at Mt Ségur and then we have more recently the pope who rented a boat to ship nazis to south america 1945. The church really aims to please and now they got a pope that started out in the Hitler Jugend .
Oh I seem to forget the great Inquisition , what a nice way to get rid of the people you dislike
My family was Catholic growing up, my siblings all went through Catholic education, on up through High School. I never went to the Catholic Primary school like the rest, and when High School came up, I shot down my pre-admission interview by claiming myself as an avowed Socialist, and that I advocated overthrow of the government by force if necessary.
Afterwards I regretted doing that, damn they had some gorgeous girls in the school across the street, and many of the classes were co-ed by then.
So back to the siblings. As noted all went through good Catholic schools, non of them ever married, a couple of them have never worked, a couple have children out of marriage, and none went to church ever again. And one of them lost his life due to his poor life's decisions.
As for me, I have been successful financially, have been married over 12 years, have kids in wedlock and still believe in a spiritual force, just not the Catholic one. So going back to that pre-admission interview, thank you Higher Power, I missed out on the young virgins in the girls school across the street, but in life ever afterwards I have succeeded.
