Catholic Hypocrisy

 

As Jesus was starting on his way again, a man ran up, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to receive eternal life?" "Why do you call me good?" Jesus asked him. "No one is good except God alone. You know the commandments: 'Do not commit murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not accuse anyone falsely; do not cheat; respect your father and your mother.' " "Teacher," the man said, "ever since I was young, I have obeyed all these commandments." Jesus looked straight at him with love and said, "You need only one thing. Go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me." When the man heard this, gloom spread over his face, and he went away sad, because he was very rich. Jesus looked around at his disciples and said to them, "How hard it will be for rich people to enter the Kingdom of God!" The disciples were shocked at these words, but Jesus went on to say, "My children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God! It is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle."

Jesus' message is very clear: "sell all you have and give the money to the poor", "It is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle". The level of hypocrisy in the catholic religion is unreal. It is not only the Vatican and the Pope which is being referred to. But also a large amount of their churches have a very extravagant appearance. The message Jesus was trying to make (or the people that wrote of him) was to give wealth to the less fortunate and being rich is looked down upon. For people that claim to be as devout as these do, they can't even follow basic instructions (they do the complete opposite). If even half the wealth and effort that was put towards these luxuries was instead put towards helping the poor, imagine how much good it would do.

Catholics always go-on about how great Jesus was, along with his message. But at the same time their leaders live like kings – if Jesus was a real guy, the sight of this would be sickening to him. Come-on Catholics, time to be more 'Christ-like', give away all your wealth to the poor! Rich people have a near impossible time getting into heaven remember! While I think religion for the most part is damaging and mere superstition. Jesus did have a good message here, and that message is being ignored for convenience. While being well-off is a good thing, an obscene amount of wealth is damaging to society, it detracts from it. The more wealth a person has, the less others have. Saying that the Catholic religion's wealth is 'obscene' is almost understating it. This is the exact opposite of what Jesus taught.