# It's time to liquidate the Catholic Church

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-liquidate-the-catholic-church/221305>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 27, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-liquidate-the-catholic-church/221305 "2003-12-27T21:02:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![dal\_timgar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@dal\_timgar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dal_timgar)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-liquidate-the-catholic-church/221305/61 "2004-04-09T19:13:48Z")

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The word SHEOL in the Old Testament and HADES and GEHENNA in the New Testament are translated as HELL but the translations are INCORRECT. Shouldn’t the church have gotten this correct in 1700 years? Their version of HELL is to terrorize people on this side of the grave. It’s a RELIGIOUS POWER GAME.

Is the second commandmant:

Thou shalt not use the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

really a commandment against organized religion? Of course the religious leaders aren’t going to interpret it that way.

Dal Timgar

> [@Aeschines](#):
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> Sometimes a business is flush with cash and other assets, but it’s business plan has become outmoded, or it doesn’t have one at all.
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> Management, if it were responsible, would pay a liquidating dividend to the shareholders and be done with it. Human nature being what it is, however, this rarely happens. Wishing to keep it’s well-paying and prestigious jobs, management fights tooth and claw against any liquidation or takeover attempt.
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> And so it is with the Catholic Church. I was raised Catholic but now consider myself a pantheist. At any rate, just the other day priest in my Indiana home town parish admitted to committing sexual abuse against a minor in the late 60s. He’s now “outa there.”
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> I had thought that the Church was core-rotten, but this hit home. The abuse had always been “elsewhere.” Now I suspect it’s everywhere.
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> The Church is pretty much dead in Europe, and it’s a zombie in the US, with no new priests and a de facto schism with Rome. A huge percentage of American priests are homosexuals, which would be OK did the Church itself approve of homosexuality.
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> Liquidate. Liquidate! Sell off the churches and the Vatican art colllection. Then let viable religions accept the flock, and let’s move on.
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> Your opinions, please!

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