Is Catholicism A Cult?: Revealed - The True nature of Roman Catholicism

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The pervasive pedophilia in the Roman Catholic priesthood as well as decades of coverups to protect the perpetrators from justice can be explored through any secular news outlet. And as the pregnant woman is laboring — to carry and develop a child which alters her physical body and causes her to risk death in childbirth — it absolutely is involuntary servitude forced by the state. In the Church, the word “cult” is also employed to mean the veneration (not worship) of a person who has died. The conference is “an opportunity to make new friendships in Christ, to receive the sacraments, to meet and talk to young priests and religious, and to worship, pray, learn, and recreate together.

It is perfectly consistent to detest and expose the perfidy, abuses, and heresies of Roman Catholicism while loving and caring for those precious souls trapped in the grip of its bondage. Catholics believe in the Holy Trinity consisting of God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son and Holy Spirit. To varying degrees, the Catholic Church teaches from the Bible and points people to Jesus Christ as the Savior. Both Scripture and tradition must be accepted and honored with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence. Hubbard was not expected to visit, but the offices would still need to be there for the chance that it still could happen.Lofton’s characteristics are ‘Environmental Control’, ‘Mystical Manipulation’, ‘Demand for Purity’, ‘Cult of Confession’, ‘Sacred Science’, ‘Loading the Language’, ‘Doctrine over Person’, and ‘Dispensing of Existence’. All of these are certainly characteristics commonly attributed to cults, but while it would not be unreasonable to apply this definition of a cult to any dogmatic religion that requires strict compliance with God's word and will as a condition of membership, the notion of applying the word "cult" to Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or any other major world religion today is considered absurd.

Had the Protestant Reformation not taken place, those ancient abuses would still be very much with us. A cult is usually short-lived and features rituals and practices from other religions, usually of the foreign and exotic kind.

Neither the E-meter nor the beliefs behind the reactive and analytical mind hold any scientific evidence. Unfortunately, this was the state of the Church under the heresy of Jansenism, especially characterizing the 1950s and just before.

Even the concept of “brainwashing” and self-mutilating practices, two things always associated with cults, are suspect. When I was growing up, I heard people everywhere using the name of Jesus and God in different contexts. Churches are just (stupidly) afraid that too many people might choose gay marriage and then hardly anybody will have any children to fill their pews.The consequences of making a decision to place one’s goods in common are lifelong, and the potential for abuse is great. However, these Catholic Christians are believers despite what the Catholic Church teaches, not because of what it teaches.