Frying The Catholic Church

Archival Clip: Stephen Fry on The Catholic Church - IQ2 > .

You cannot peddle (read, lucrative fiddle) forgiveness UNLESS you vilify something that almost ALL brainwashed believers actually WANT to do. 

Food? Starved-to-death parishioners don't pay up — hence the invention of Purgatory (lucrative funding of chantries) in the 12th century. Gluttons pay up (in the short term), so they were included in the shaming lists. 

But regular adult heterosexual sex? Perfect for guilt tripping and shaming. Homosexuality? Even better for firing up male "regulars" among parishioners. Better yet, come be a forbidden-to-marry-adult-women priest and "pray the gay away" with us. Pedophilia? Shhhh. Let's not threaten the recruiting of priests. Rape of women and children? Useful for recruiting soldiers, so encouraged in the Hebrew Bible.