Hedges are made to protect the house, but what if the hedges start to encroach and take over the house that it is supposed to protect? Well the purpose of having hedges is defeated then.
Well drawing the above parallelism into religion, this will clearly explain what the Catholic Church is faced with today. Religion was created by man to take care of the society, act as a moral police. Religious practices guided the followers to live a rightful and truthful life. For example, a Sunday mass in the church brought the family together and serve the society once a week. Today we are sacred to bring our children for the Sunday mass. We are afraid of our kids being abused and hence feel they are better off staying at home and reading the bible.
Those days we didn’t have a judicial system and hence the religion set boundaries acceptable to the society to ensure smooth running of the engine. There was a time when rulers and kings obeyed religious laws and took care of the society. Then there was the time when science began questioning religious beliefs and practices and it was during the medieval times the State was run by the Church. Anyone who was an atheist or who questioned the Church or its practices was ostracized and thrown out of the society. Well religion was never created to punish or humiliate members of the society. It was created to bring about peace, harmony and help with the seamless functioning of the society.
Well today the same religion has created rifts between countries, individuals and the sole purpose of religion is questionable. The Catholic Church that lives by the bible and preaches against family planning, abortion, is tolerating child abuse and molestation charges against its clergy and priest. Priest who are next to God in any religion are turning into abusers and molesters. They are abusing the religion and exploiting the followers leaving a scar that can never heal in the innocent hearts. Religion, the moral police is failing in is duty but acting amoral.
The Church ignored complains all this while, and was in denial. They’ve also acted aggressively and settled a lot of abuse cases before it reached media and public, but the day has come and the bottled up genies have come out to expose and haunt the Church. Bad karmas catch up to you like the good one, may it be Judaism, Islam, or Hinduism.
Well I am not writing this to slander the Church. My idea is to bring to your notice the role of religion in the society. Well God never created any religion and all religion was created by man for his own well being and the well being of the society. When religion can’t solve the very purpose of its existence well then it needs to be thrown out. Is this a problem with the religion or the so called followers, hijackers of the religion?
Well it is time to think for not for too long to let the hedges eat up the building. The dead end will become a deadly end.
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