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I'm reading a book, The Malta Exchange by Steve Berry. Granted, it's fiction with a lot of imagination likely- yet, it looks at the inner workings of the catholic church and reveals the corruption and lies within its own hierarchy -
Is it true? IDK, but, I've not been shown any reason to not believe it.
I've been called anti semite- LOL, as though that hurts me, but, I respond I'm anti religion in general. In fact, I'm anti anything that groups people into lesser thans and lays out rules for the lesser thans to abide by and the rule writers refuse to obey the rules themselves.
Anyway, the story is intriguing and informative and, for me at least, validating my opinion on religion. I mean, come on, religion has too much power over people and the catholic church has been too influential for way too long and corruption abated by lies is inevitable- people are just people regardless of their title (or stature). This particular story corroborates similar stories I've read, (about the church corruption), by different authors, so, there must be some truth to the 'tales' being told since good authors do a lot of preliminary investigation into the subject they write about- good authors do that to add plausibility to their story- if nothing else they are at least entertaining and offer cause to stop and think-
Is it true? IDK, but, I've not been shown any reason to not believe it.
I've been called anti semite- LOL, as though that hurts me, but, I respond I'm anti religion in general. In fact, I'm anti anything that groups people into lesser thans and lays out rules for the lesser thans to abide by and the rule writers refuse to obey the rules themselves.
Anyway, the story is intriguing and informative and, for me at least, validating my opinion on religion. I mean, come on, religion has too much power over people and the catholic church has been too influential for way too long and corruption abated by lies is inevitable- people are just people regardless of their title (or stature). This particular story corroborates similar stories I've read, (about the church corruption), by different authors, so, there must be some truth to the 'tales' being told since good authors do a lot of preliminary investigation into the subject they write about- good authors do that to add plausibility to their story- if nothing else they are at least entertaining and offer cause to stop and think-