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Originally posted by ChrisCantSkate
well... actually i havce to disagree again haha... if anything its not like a cult. through out time whenever a group of people didnt like the way catholics did things they went off on a tangent of what they thought to be the "right way" of doing things, thus why theres all those little versions of christianity. catholics are very deep in tradition since they are the origional christian religion that everything stemed off of.
also the budists(i think) have a head of their religion, the dahli lamma(sp?) and the church of england, im sure tehres more... i'll do some resarch before posting any deffinite statments on it
and for cult like religions.... think of the islam and other religions that are constantly killing themselves in the name of their god(s). yes the catholics had the crusaides, but thats just because they were the major christain religion at the time. im sure that it would have been much different had tehre been all these little versions of it at the time.
honestly ben, i know what your saying, and im jsut busting your balls on the slightly major details your overlooking. its just you have a slightly warped veiw on how the catholic church works since im guessing you got most of it from the news.
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Well, really there weren't any "major" offshoots of of christianity until Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the Wittenburg church in the 1500s (detail, among other things, papal abuses). Before that you had small groups that did things their own way...but not too radically different. Then again, if you look at groups like the Cathars in southern France, even those little groups still got fucked by the catholic church as the Cathars were the target of the first inquisition. After that first land/power grab...errr...I mean convertion of heretics...yeah, the church hired
Torquemada and headed off to Spain. Since Torquemada makes Hitler look like an Eagle Scout, I'll assume there's no way that the catholic church could've missed how fucked up he was...even had it been just a little.
Before that you had the crusades...and the children's crusades. But I digress. Arguments can certainly be made for a strong catholic/christian link to the occult and paganism. Hell...many of christianity's rituals and rites are swiped from pagans. You know...like the sacrament? Eating christ's body and drinking his blood don't sound a thing like cannibalism. People rising from the dead or having mystical powers seems perfectly normal, too. While other religions may have a spiritual leader, I don't know of any that have such an elaborate hierarchy (bishops, archbishops, cardinals, etc.). As someone who was raised catholic, I think it's the job of other catholics to question the church and what they say since you have no say in what goes on.