The Church said that the earth was flat and the centre of the Universe. It was wrong. The Church ignored and actually may have helped cultivate slavery in the new world. It was wrong. The Church believes that it should prevent capital punishment, abortion and assisted suicide. I believe it is wrong yet again.

The most important thing or gift, that God gave to man, according to the Church is the freedom of choice, the ability to do as he pleases. Whether the choice is to kill or to give life, the Church has no place in being a part of a system that seeks to limit those choices. The Church can suggest, the Church can recommend the Church can advise but it has no moral authority in the setting of limits on what human beings can do.

Aside from interfering with freedom of choice the Church has another small problem with being a part of any legislative push. It has no teeth or will according to its own teachings to punish or reform the guilty. What does a priest say to the guilty who have confessed their sin? "Say several 'Hail marys', several 'Our Fathers' and go back into the world." Whether it be a child molester, a serial killer, an adulterer or a tyrant the Church can do nothing and does nothing to even begin to enforce its beliefs on the end of the equation that actually has the most effect on our lives. The guilty it appears are more free than the victims.

The Church says forgive your brother seven times, seven times, turn the other cheek, love those that hate you etcetera, etcetera but it provides no protection for the weak. Can it protect a battered wife? Can it defend an extorted shop keeper? The Church say "don't have an abortion", life is sacred but it provides no affordable day care services for the single mothers or counselling to help them though their struggles. The Church says don't take your own life when all you have to look forward to is suffering and death from a terminal illness, wait past the point when the painkillers no longer work, wait past the point where delirium takes your mind, wait until there is nothing left at all and everyone you love is waiting for you to just die and be let out from your misery. But the Church provides no financial assistance with medical bills, the Church cannot share the pain and the Church does not stay at your side until the end.

That may be the biggest problem that the Church has really, it cannot be at anyone's side. Jesus the man could have, he could have been at the side of Lazurus, he could have been at the side of the cripple he made walk but the Church in the last 2000 years has been just a thing. A parent that lectures on the way life should be rather than the way that it is. It does not come down to our level and say "listen I was bullied just like you I understand, look at my scars this is how I dealt with it" or "I too was pregnant and alone but with the help of good advice and support I made it"

Maybe I'm wrong maybe the Church does do these things to the level that it should and I'm just blind but I sincerely doubt it. If the Church was providing the support to society that it should be it wouldn't need to help legislate. It wouldn't need to be a part of a system to force people into doing things, people would just not be, having abortions, seeking the death penalty or interested in assisted suicide.

The real result of the Church's effort are to force parents of all beliefs Christian or otherwise to care for children they either do not want or are not prepared to take care of. They are forcing the state to commit itself to lifetime care for hardened unrepentant pyschopaths who will kill again and will be a source of knowledge and motivation for future career criminals. They are forcing people of all faiths and beliefs to suffer the maximum amount of pain that the randomness of death see fit to deliver. And what is offered in return to those of other beliefs? Nothing what is offered to those of a Christian faith? The possiblity of not going to Hell for something else.

Jesus said "By their fruits yee shall know them." What the fruit are saying is that most Christian insitutions and icons are closer to being politicians than what the term Christian really implies. They have a whole lot of talk just like politicians and they're never really around when they really should be, again just like politicians.

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