The "catholic" church is of course first and foremost a business corporation, which actively seeks to enlarge its share in the market place of whats-in-it-for-me consumerist religiosity. It also pretends that its benighted magisterium is binding on all human beings. I wonder what Jesus would have to say about that considering that he was scathingly critical of both the ecclesiastical and political establishments in his time and place - for which he was executed as a common trouble-making criminal.
And, simultaneously, a power-and-control-seeking political entity too - such is the significance of the "holy see" being recognized as an "independent" political state/entity with all the diplomatic powers privileges, and (especially) legal immunities that all independent states supposedly have.
In many otherwise independent states it strategically uses its political power to consolidate both its political and economic power, and its cultural power too to veto any and everything which does not align with its self-appointed power to control the religious and cultural aspirations of the people that live in these (supposedly) independent states.
The "catholic" church is of course first and foremost a business corporation, which actively seeks to enlarge its share in the market place of whats-in-it-for-me consumerist religiosity. It also pretends that its benighted magisterium is binding on all human beings. I wonder what Jesus would have to say about that considering that he was scathingly critical of both the ecclesiastical and political establishments in his time and place - for which he was executed as a common trouble-making criminal.
And, simultaneously, a power-and-control-seeking political entity too - such is the significance of the "holy see" being recognized as an "independent" political state/entity with all the diplomatic powers privileges, and (especially) legal immunities that all independent states supposedly have.
In many otherwise independent states it strategically uses its political power to consolidate both its political and economic power, and its cultural power too to veto any and everything which does not align with its self-appointed power to control the religious and cultural aspirations of the people that live in these (supposedly) independent states.
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