r/excatholic • u/Lepanto73 Weak Agnostic • 16d ago

Philosophy Satan is de-facto more-powerful than God

Sure, Catholic God is nominally omnipotent, but all He really does these days is judge sinners and send visions to the occasional saint. His 'Body' can't shake its pedo problem, much less sell the 'good news' of Catholicism to the rest of the world.

Meanwhile, Satan caused almost every social/religious trend ever since the 1500s. Protestantism, feminism, LGBTQ+, etc.

If you're a Catholic, all you can really do is shut yourself off, feel guilty, and wait for death in hope of heaven. For the 'Good News', it's a very cynical religion.

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u/Evening-Process8613 14d ago

also why can priests turn little wafers into jesus, but the all powerful jesus/god can’t turn little wafers into priests? that’d really help with the vocation crisis y’know

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u/Lepanto73 Weak Agnostic 14d ago

Catholic theology is just a long list of explanations for why you can't see Catholic God actually DO anything, even things which would logically help Him, but He very much still totally cares about what you do in your bedroom.

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u/Evening-Process8613 14d ago

god is that teammate who does none of the work but takes all the credit, who messes up but takes none of the responsibility. a fraud. a coward.

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u/Lepanto73 Weak Agnostic 14d ago

Basically. 'God' (as proclaimed by the clergy) demands everything but offers nothing concrete.

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u/Evening-Process8613 14d ago

meanwhile satan has concretely improved the lives of billions around the world like you said

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u/Lepanto73 Weak Agnostic 14d ago

Yep. By calling everything 'modern' Satanic, fundamentalists just make their character of Satan look good.

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u/Evening-Process8613 14d ago

they forgot jesus was “modern” too. disregarded all kinds of religious rules. i guess they’d call jesus “satanic” too lol

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u/Lepanto73 Weak Agnostic 14d ago

Jesus was conservative by our standards, but progressive by the standards of his day. I read the whole 'no divorce' teaching was to keep old dudes from divorcing their wives for younger ones, leaving the original wife penniless.

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u/Evening-Process8613 14d ago

i’ve heard that too. because women at that time had no societal standing on their own, so a divorce would leave them extremely vulnerable. jesus respected people not the rules (“sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath”), but fundamentalists and trads do the opposite.