Ironside, he had the sticker just like 95% of people here. He was NOT excommunicated, thus still a Catholic. Oh, he didn't practise I hear you say. Well, go and tell that to over 35% of your population. YOUR church created onerous rules for marriage and divorce, requirements NOT imposed by a Protestant church. They believe in human fallibility and are thus more flexible. But a sheep is still a sheep, right? The essence is the same! Nergal implied all of these things and would back me up.
So religion has failed abysmally then? Jesus died for us all and expiated our sins yet we still behave like barbarians 2000 years on? Wow, that's reassuring ;)
Then your culture is prime pickings for brainwashing. Until you accept that priests were not supposed to be God's intermediaries, this will continue by ruthless profiteers playing on peoples' sensibilities.
So religion has failed abysmally then? Jesus died for us all and expiated our sins yet we still behave like barbarians 2000 years on? Wow, that's reassuring ;)
Then your culture is prime pickings for brainwashing. Until you accept that priests were not supposed to be God's intermediaries, this will continue by ruthless profiteers playing on peoples' sensibilities.