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I have been raised and taught to be a good Catholic girl. I was brought up in the Catholic faith. I attended St. Ann’s Catholic school K-8th grade then onto Sacred Hearts Academy for high school. Both sides of my families were staunch practicing Catholics. Our religious beliefs were involved in our entire decision making. We attended church every Sunday and that included all church holidays. Of course we also had church in school. I grew up experiencing that my Catholic religion went hand and hand with my everyday living. I only knew one thing and that was that the Catholic Church was right and you did not question it, at all.
Finally, in my junior year at Sacred Hearts Academy, they allowed lay instructors into our all-girls school. I was lucky enough to take one of my required courses from a lay teacher. My required class was a religion course about Church History. Some background information on my instructor was that prior to taking the position at Sacred Hearts, he was a Catholic Brother studying to become a priest. He decided to resign because he didn’t agree with everything that the Catholic Church was teaching. He had built his curriculum for our class from a college course that he taught.
He was very interested in teaching us every detail that had taken place during the Crusades or Holy Wars. The Crusades were military crusades that took place from 1090-1300 AD, lasting almost 300 years. The Crusades were mandated and launched by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095. The Crusades were a series of holy wars called by popes with the promise of indulgences for those who fought in them and directed against external and internal enemies of Christendom for the recovery of Christian property or in defense of the Church or Christian people. The first crusade was a success with the soldiers capturing Jerusalem and several other holy cities. However, the religion was spread with violence and military aids. Many non-Christians died at the hands of the Christian soldiers, and this continued even during the inquisition centuries later.
Today The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with 1.2 billion members. Learning that the Catholic Church had participated and carried out mass killings and enslavement of other countries based on a conflict of religious beliefs, baffled me. Gaining the knowledge that the Catholic religion was based on lies and stretching of the truth to benefit them, made me realize that all that I had been taught and led to believe is a historical myth. This huge historical myth after centuries of only telling one side of the story was what my religious belief system was based upon.
I have come to the realization that the purpose of this historical myth is to keep the Catholic Church in business. This is continues to be overlooked because of all the so called good that the Catholic Church has done throughout the rest of history. Bottom line is that the Vatican City State, (landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome.) is the smallest internationally recognized independent state in the world by both area and population. It is also one of the richest religious groups in the world. The Catholic Church is big business and will continue to grow and prosper, based on a lie.