Sincerely Held Beliefs - Angel/Psychic/Seer Daniel Perez

[Binkie The Clown]

7. All religions combine elements of fraud, extortion, and child abuse.

Fraud, because they justify everything they do with lies.
Extortion because they take money on threat of eternal damnation.
Child abuse because they brainwash young children with their lies while they children are too young to understand that they are being victimized.

Sometimes they combine all those into one package. When I was a little kid the nuns at the Catholic school used to encourage us to spend our allowances buy something they called "indulgences". For cold hard cash, you could buy your way out of purgatory and into heaven. And since purgatory was just about as bad as hell, we little kids (too young to know better) were told we would suffer horribly unless we gave our allowance money to the church to buy those indulgences (extortion). They even had a chart of how much money it took to buy your way out of X number of days of purgatory. Crass, money-grubbing bullshit aimed at snatching quarters from little kids. And if you consult any Catholic authority today they will tell you that cash for indulgences was eliminated in the 1500's. But as a child, I saw them being sold with my own eyes, so that brings us back to lies, as the foundation of religion, and covers all the bases.

And there's the fact that Pope Paul VI said in 1967 money given for indulgences was only in the form of a free-will gift, and was used to encourage charity. So why did they have to clarify money-for-forgiveness in 1967 if it was banished in the 1500's? More lies upon lies.