its probably somethign to do with the catholic church pronouncing anathemas on anyone who isnt catholic. I think it goes both ways as certainly if I tried to discuss anything biblical on a catholic forum I would probably soon reach an impasse if I said anything contrary to what the current Pope pronounces. They are a very staunch church that doesnt like to be crossed with centuries and centuries of man made traditon it isnt easy to speak up and say hold on thats actually not in the Bible if you belong to the catholic church.
Thats why so many ex-catholics had to leave and probably hold a bit of a grudge towards it.
I watched a documentary just recently about the church pedophilia in the Philippines.
The RCC makes it so difficult, almost impossible, for the victims to get justice.
They have powerful friends and release the offending priests, and as everywhere else, they do not ban them from serving but just move them around from diocese to diocese where they find new victims to scar them for life and in many cases drive them away from God. Pedophilia and rape are two crimes with insanely high rate of reoffending, these people rarely rehabilitate. Yet the church puts the vulnerable ones at risk. They did not even bother to establish some kind of decree, that a priest will never be alone with kids, to prevent this from occurring.
And also so many raped nuns, that were then forced to abort!...
It's so terrible, it is true that such people appear in every church institution, but the difference is that in most churches there is outrage and they lose their position when a scandal appears. But in RCC the believers aren't holding them accountable, the victims are persecuted and silenced, and offenders keep operating. What does God think about that?
It's similar in the Orthodox church, the offenders continue to operate, but the rate of offending is a lot less than the scandalous amounts in RCC, most likely because their priests must marry before receiving their position. So, the RCC is even more guilty in this, because the Scripture says that priests are to marry, and I will quote the Bible here so
@PC123 can read and decide for himself:
1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry,
and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the
husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Titus 1:5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and
ordain elders in every city, [basically establishing dioceses] as I had appointed thee:
6 If any be blameless,
the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
This is because a priest presides over the congregation. He must be example to the sheep entrusted to him. So he must also have an exemplary marriage and family. It is not fit for an unmarried person to give advice to the crowd about godly marriage or raising a family.
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