#I am a Metis Folk Catholic (yes i'm of a canadian indigenous population & a catholic) & I have listened to roman catholic stuff in my youth

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You were born beautiful & okay & yes flawed,

& instead of sacrificing things every day of your life you just need one single sacrifice (& the thing sacrificed is still eternal & didn't die & fall off the face of existence)

& you should live by love & live your life in active thanks, not verbal thanks, active thanks meaning going out & living with love & not doing evil to others

& the word is relevant to the context it was written in so you need to learn how to apply it in this world which essentially boils down to "conduct yourself with love"

because you will be completely & fully united with the purest most infinite love in the end, & the "unimaginable torture" is lack of love & very few people ever get there & even upon passing you still are able to unite with Love after some time spent undoing the hatred you spread in life. According to some traditions, even if you spend one eternity in suffering, you will have another chance to unite with love.

Posts like this are why I hate the church. It presents itself in such an awful way that people get an understanding of it like this, & then they abandon it because it honestly sucks & they can find love in other places. At the same time though, this post is... well... it is exaggerated & sad. The churches need to stop acting the way they do because they make people think like this. Life is beautiful, why do the churches need to make it come off like this?

Look, we joke a lot, but really, "you were born evil, wretched, worse than the scum of the earth, and it took killing a god to make you salvageable, so now you'd better be grateful to that god and thank him 10,000 times a day for it and fill your thoughts with him 24/7 and abide by the letter of his every word, lest you suffer unimaginable torture for all of eternity" is a truly horrendous thing to believe about yourself and other people