A REPLY.
Good A.M. Frankie, sorry for the delay in my reply to your message.
Thank you for being my acquaintance.
I believe that I can be 100% open with you, concerning my thoughts, about the Church in Ireland.
Throughout history, the atrocities that men have committed in the name of religion is truly appalling.
Where in history do we start, maybe from Constantinople in 325 A.D. With the Nicene Creed, when Emperor Constantine gathered all the Bishops, locked them up in his palace with a mandate to choose the Books that will become the Bible as we know it today.
He made Christianity the state religion for political reasons.
Changed the Sabbath to Sunday, the day that the Pagan Roman Empire worshipped the Sun god.
He became a Christian on his death bed.
The burning at Stake of Medival Europe, the sales of Indulgence until 1567 A.D. when Pope Pius V abolished it.
The Inquisition or the Slave trade?
Or the modern-day daylight robbery of Tithes by the Pastors.
God said "bring 10% to my house" not into Pastor's pocket.
The atrocities that men have committed in the name of God throughout human history and till today is truly shocking.
Jesus Christ lectured us, about them in the Bible.
But we can not blame God for the iniquities of men.
Dublin, Ireland.
