I feel like I shouldn’t be a Catholic anymore
I’m a 23 year old guy that has always been Catholic my whole life and I go to Church every Sunday morning. Lately I feel like I don’t belong in the church.
One of the big reasons is the Church’s stance on the death penalty and revenge. I feel that as a man, it is crucial to have the desire to take revenge and agree with the penalty of death for the betterment of society. Let’s say someone raped or murdered your wife. The natural desire is to kill the perpetrator. Yet, the Catholic Church says that you can’t take revenge because it’s a sin, and that if the perpetrator is caught, the government is not allowed to kill them either. So, you as a man need to delegate the decision of punishment for your wife’s rapist/murderer to the government, who will then house this person in a facility for the rest of their life (they also may be released), being fed, given a bed, etc. You then must also pray for the person who did this terrible thing. Also, all you can do to try and feel some sort of justice or consolation for this is pray that God comforts you. All of this is completely just and the right way to do things according to the Catholic Church.
To me, this is brainwashing. It is in a man’s nature to take revenge for this terrible thing done to his wife, yet society forces him to be docile like a slave. All of societies rules, even if they are made by “secular people” (who are also ironically religious seeing how laws are social constructs that we all agree to pretend exist) are based on religious rules written by men. God created our nature, but man-made religions tell us to go against it.
Another problem I have with Catholicism is the Pre-Cana nonsense. Naturally, if a man and a woman want to get “married” they would simply have sex, conceive a child, and stay together forever. This is how it was done before man-made society corrupted people’s minds. In Catholicism, the man and the woman have to go to counseling for several months before the wedding with a priest, who has never been married, will never be married, and will never have children. We have to go to him for wisdom on how to be a married couple? I also find it insane that they counsel us on money of all things. Money is fake, its value is in public trust. The fact that it’s used is why society’s youth are essentially slaves, forced to work for hours on end for fake money that they can use to buy mixtures of chemicals, drugs, and food dyes called food. Many will never be able to buy homes because their only asset is this valueless paper. They cannot naturally take resources to ensure the HEALTHY survival of their children because they have to follow religious rules that protect the old, weak population with more valueless paper than them.
It’s impossible today to survive without this paper, so we must get with the program, but the priests have the audacity to then ask the young people for donations while they are already barely surviving instead of actually working like slaves themselves. We work as slaves and pay tithes while the priest spends his day praying?
I don’t mean to come off as hostile. This is my opinion of the Church as of lately. If anyone wants to explain why they think I’m wrong, I welcome it.