Uuum Whats with the Bible stuff.
Think of this, the bible justifies the faith (by the way the whole idea is baseless, dripping with blood and full of hypocrisy) by trying to prove the facts by referring to itself to legitimize the whole cult. I know this, it keeps some bad people from being worse and justifies the loyal followers of the cult (and by definition by the way, this is what it is) of their bizarre actions (including all of the pedophiles) in the name of a fantasy. The traditions of the cult are mostly stolen from the pagan religion and have no real tie to the Bible at all. Such as Christmas and the Christmas tree, these have no tie to anything related to the religion at all. These things were a compromise by the Church with the pagans to indoctrinate a larger group of peoples to fight the holy wars to keep the church in control, not the birth of Christ, his birthdate was November 8th.
Also, remember the church oppressed its followers several ways, one way being education. The only group of people who were not considered heretics by educating them self’s, were the hierarchy in the church further placing greater power on the elite and controlling the people with superstition and fear because the followers had no idea that it is all about money and power, that’s it.
Now, with that said we would have an enormous collapse in society if the church fell apart if every one of the followers knew better. Some people need the control because they cannot handle the freedom and they are not free thinkers. So why and how could you place your faith in the political system that is full of corruption by leaders that are so called followers of your faith. Politics is not the problem, people are! If you do not actively participate and just let it run unchecked, you have no leg to stand on; you don’t deserve it, no matter what side of the fence you stand on. Besides, if you think the leader of the faith would really care or intervene in our political decisions your not following your own doctrine, he would want you to fix it yourself and believe in the good of others to fix any issues that arise.
It’s ok to believe as long as it makes you are a better person for it, just don’t push it on people who are appalled by simple minded oppressive thinking.