19 hours ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)1 child
It's about power. All organized religion is about power, keeping the masses docile to the state and willing to die in its wars. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc. The truth needs no religion. God has no religion. It is evil people who use the best of human endeavor against fellow humans that creates organized religion.
Churches, even Peter's, are just humanities inability to firmly reject Phariseeism. We find it comforting to have "laws" mediated by "experts" because they can be bent to allow us our favourite sins.
22 hours ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)2 children
There are non-cucked churches out there. I go to a Traditionalist Catholic church. If you must, there's also the Orthodox and the Lutheran Missouri Synod.
19 hours ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
The biggest issue I see is that they just don't really address anything contentious and they just stay silent so as not to offend the absurd "norms" in our culture
This is what the clergy says publicly, and they can't talk about tighter immigration because that's political and then they lose tax-exempt status. They can still toe the line on stuff like being welcome to immigrants. This is not a good metric to gauge what most people in the church think.