1142: Uplifting

[Junkenstein]

There's no part of the catholic church that respects the vows of poverty. The first order of monks, supposedly, were born out of that. BUt that's bogus too nowadays.

I have a parent who became a priest and he did it out of simple unemployement. He fucked up everything else so he became a priest. It's just another job. They're not poor, humble, faithful or chaste.

The non-marrying thing is alie too, built up only to make sure that the priests have no heirs and their possessions stays in the church grounds. But i know a bunch of priests that have secret lovers (and no, they dont all touch kids. but the pope's brother does.)

On the study about the link between intelligence and religion: i think that sogiological studies are mostly proof that everything can be linked to everything with enough words and numbers. This one too. There's intelligent, cultured people that believe in god and dumb atheists. Sure, for a dumb person it's simpler to attribute everything to god and not question stuff. But i also have met people who said they were atheists because "god is bullshit, whatever, dude". Same type of idiots that calls themselves "anarchists" when they talk about politics.

A thinking believer needs even more intelligence than any person that rests on atheism like a comfy bed.