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The history of religion... is the history of wars, torture, colonization, invasion of foreign lands, misogyny and power hungry patriarchy...

The opulence of the churches,the magnificent palaces of the clergy... contrasts sharply to the humble origins of the founders... Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, the prophets of the Pentateuch... and all the rest...

They say, 

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely... and indeed the history of the Church, the Mosque, the Temple, or the Synagogue... demonstrate amply the power hungry corruption of the religious elite... They have been and they are an integral part of the system of the 1%... which has ruled the globe ever since... 

The interfaith wars in Europe between Protestants and Catholics was indeed the struggle among temporal rulers... kings and dukes and "the princes of the Church..." 

The Islamic hordes invaded the Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia) and Northern Africa and spread their Islamic faith through the might of their sword... The Asian nomads ( Genghis Khan and Suleiman the Magnificent...) invaded the Middle East and Asia Minor, they massacred the indigenous people, very much like the European White people invaded North America and massacred the indigenous people of North America... The Islamic conquerors established themselves and even committed genocide of the Armenians in the early 20th century... The Muslims have always established themselves by the might of their sword and established their rule and spread their Muslim faith by their sword...

The Islamic armies invaded Europe (Greece, Romania, Hungry and reached the gates of Vienna...) and spread their faith and culture through the sword...

The Catholic Church burned women on stakes as witches... and abused the natives of North America...

The Report published by a U.S. Grand Jury this week is nothing new... It just exposes, yet another time, the barbaric ugliness and abusive power of a religious order...

Check the report...

A report published yesterday has documented the sexual crimes that were perpetrated by over 300 priests in Pennsylvania over 70 years. More than 1,000 children, and probably several times that number, were victims of clerical abuse that was systematically swept under the carpet. 

It states ... :

"Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing; they hid it all," the 1,300-page report found...

And the response of the Vatican...

"Regarding the report made public in Pennsylvania this week, there are two words that can express the feelings faced with these horrible crimes: shame and sorrow," said Greg Burke, director of the Vatican's Press Office. "The Holy See treats with great seriousness the work of the Investigating Grand Jury of Pennsylvania and the lengthy Interim Report it has produced. The Holy See condemns unequivocally the sexual abuse of minors." It is not only the sexual abuse of minors... minorities are abused... women are excluded... opulence is the order of the day on ALL religious hierarchies... and sects and orders... Catholics, Evangelicals... who have sold their soul to money and bribes and to Trumpism, and the Jewish faith... who just supported the most racist declaration coming from a state that Israel is for the Jewish people ONLY... and Palestinians are excluded from it... The Buddhists who deported the Rohingyas from Myanmar-Burma... The Muslims who have Jihadist ISIS and Taliban and the rest of the terrorists groups... No religion is better than the other... and Karl Marx's statement a century ago... Religion is the opium of the people... sounds so true...

The pope hugs ex-Archbishop Theodore McCarrick during a visit to Washington DC in 2015... The Pope new then and did nothing... He just acted after all the shit burst out in his face... and the stink enveloped all of Vatican... And the bishops, how many of then indeed are abusers themselves?, called for a papal representative to investigate allegations of sexual abuse against former Washington DC Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, 88, who resigned last month... The Church, and all religious orders and ALL religions,  must adopt what Jesus advised to the rich prince... Luke 18:18-29 New King James Version (NKJV) Jesus Counsels the Rich Young Ruler 18 Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 19 So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. 20 You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ” 21 And he said, “All these things I have kept from my youth.” 22 So when Jesus heard these things, He said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” 23 But when he heard this, he became very sorrowful, for he was very rich. With God All Things Are Possible 24 And when Jesus saw that he became very sorrowful, He said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God! 25 For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” I am not a riligous person... but I see a contradiction when there is one... and when I was studying English Lit in university The King James Bible was a required reading... So I remember the above passage... Religous orders... Trumpists... the 1% ... lay people, laity and clergy... all rulers of the world must "sell all they have and distribute to the poor..." I had a friend at the university... he left his house doors open... he had just the minimum... a bad, a sofa and few cloths and kitchen utensils... When I asked why he does not lock his doors... He replied... There is nothing to steal... and he was happier for that... and did not care about insurance or all the other worries that people have...