Thanks Protestant Reformation! -
Roman Catholic Errors Corrected
Salvation by our will and our work
Priest's forced celibacy
Priest's made mediators between God in Man (instead of Christ)
Worship of Idols, relics, saints, popes and Mary
Prayer to saints instead of to God through Christ
Purgatory
Idea that the Bishop of Rome was somehow more authoritative than other Bishops
Idea that Papal Decrees (Bulls) or Church council were more authoritative than the Bible
Apocrypha was formally apart of the Bible (and shouldn't have been)
Pilgrimages and Crusades and superstition and penance
Transubstantiation
The Re-murder of God at every mass (Eucharist)
Communion was weekly medicine (like drugs) for your soul and your priest was the only dealer in town, monopolizing power and authority for themselves instead of serving others
Simony and nepotism
Popes became known for mass adultery and bastard children from whores and concubines
The Roman church became a political and military force instead of a spiritual and religious force
Allowed and encouraged theft, torture, rape and murder of not just Muslims, but also Jews and other Christians (Inquisition, 4th Crusade and execution of Protestants during the Reformation)
Indulgences - buying your way (or your dead friends' and family's way) out of the fires of imaginary Purgatory and straight on into heaven
And this -
as beautiful as St Peter's is its funded and built on the lies and heresies of Indulgences and Purgatory and was merely a way for the Pope to Steal from the Poor and Biblically ignorant peasants throughout Roman Europe and collect it and use it himself
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