The atrocious Catholic bloody Crusades against Jews and Muslims and the evil Catholic Inquisition that pulled people apart on stretchers if they disbelieved is not allowed to be read by parishioners–not even anything written by Martin Luther for his Reformation. Although this index law was stopped in the 1960s, on paper, biased bishops and the Vatican still clutch control of the human Catholic mind that has been conditioned and programmed in keeping the people in the dark of their own horrendous history. At least one Protestant, Michael Servetus, a great scientist and physician studying pulmonary research, was tortured and killed. Church authority burned him alive at the stake for not believing in their faith dogma. The founder of the Presbyterian Church–John Calvin–is responsible historically.
A revealing statement by a Lutheran minister who was tortured in a Nazi prison camp in WW II wrote, "It was the church hierarchy that kept people silent about the Holocaust. It all stemmed from the New Testament, tacked on to the Hebrew Bible against the will of the Jews. Paul of Tarsus (now Turkey), was the main author and influence who write that Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Jew. It was the Romans who killed this great prophet and humanist, who believed in the Golden Rule. Radical leaders still believe this falsehood, passed on to their members.
This same ignorance started back in early cave man's fears and superstition that were and still remain the basis of extremist authoritarian of three related religions that still is explosive. Therefore, those held back in world education actually believe the all-male control. And sadder yet, this one gender fixation also has a history of Catholic leaders raping boys ha ing religious duties within the church.
So it's easy to see why some people are afraid of not going to heaven, where and whatever that is. They fear a place no one know about, too. Author of What Catholics Always Wanted To Ask But Feared The Most on Earth, an essay. So sad!
