The recent circus of presidential elections in Iran again fooled lot of people into seeing Iran as a real democratic nation, when there was a real and contested election to the seemingly highest office of the land.
This 'religious' organization can now operate with impunity all over the world, even if the greedy strategies of extracting money from the followers of this 'faith' have been exposed over and over again and even proved in the court of law in many countries over decades.
have always wondered if a person can be held divinely responsible for violating the dietary restrictions imposed by various religions also when people are eating forbidden foodstuffs without having any change of knowin
Eating is the most basic human activity and divisions based on the eating habits work at the very basic level. That is the main reason why religions are so extremely interested in what their followers are eating and what not.
The Middle East under the Muslim rule has in practice became an open air museum of Christianity where many of the oldest forms of that faith haven been preserved in their crude and original banality.
This man living in one of the most luxurious palaces of world however recently announced that the spread of "western materialism" is the greatest threat that the continent of Africa now faces.
The hunger and desperation that awaits the millions of new little Catholics in that continent is of no interest for this cold and hard-hearted man. He is quite willing to sacrifice them at the altar of his idiotic and old-fashioned dogma that is threatening this continent with future of steadily increasing despair, poverty and hunger.
The Only True Church is now however in a real danger of ending up in the sidelines in western societies, where it truly belongs with other fringe cults like it, and so it is finding desperately ways to modernize its image so tarnished by its extremely old-fashioned real life actions
Many have even started to hope that Ireland could finally be on the road of becoming a normal catholic country like Italy or France, where the Church has no real say anymore in the true daily running of the society, even if the religious façade is still there often quite intact.