Why is religion so complicated?

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You would have to be more specific about what you mean, like which part of religion and what do you mean are we all to blame? I would appreciate if you could clarify, thanks!
 
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Religion doesn’t have to be complicated. Sometimes it can be helpful to go back to the basics. Love God. Love one another. That’s about it. (I see that @po18guy just beat me to it!)

I wouldn’t worry a lot about who is to blame. Fix the problem, not the blame.
 
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Haha, very good answer. One thing to mention about Protestantism that doesn’t make any sense is that you can understand the Bible in a million different ways but with the Catholic Church they can explain the core aspects of the religion to us. Also it was the church quite clearly established by Jesus Christ: https://churchpop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1-10.jpg
 
What’s wrong with complicated? What do you think needs simplifying?
 
I think it depends on what one means by complicated. Some Catholic theology is actually quite easy to understand, Mary being the Theotokos,for instance. If Jesus Is God and Mary is his mother, then Jesus is the mother of God. That’s just logic.
 
Joan of Arc said…‘About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.’…protestantism complicated the matter by seeking to separate Jesus from His Church, the Catholic Church.
 
Older religions become so complicated because they have to evolve enough to answer today’s questions - the ones that fail to do this end up dying out.

BUT they also have to maintain the visage of continuity with the past. Their credibility hinges on it.

So they get stretched in two different directions. Complexity is a natural result of survival in many cases.
 
As she’s a descendant of Adam, created by God, then God ultimately created itself?

Offered with levity.
 
For example two people can read the same page of the Holy Bible and both have different views on that page.
 
And Jesus never intended that. When we have disagreements what does He command us to do? Go to a page number in the bible? No, He says take it to the Church.
 
And The Maid’s equally simple companion, La Hire, prayed:

“God, I pray Thee that today Thou wilt do for La Hire that which Thou wouldst have La Hire do for Thee, if he were God and Thou wert La Hire.”
 
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What aspect are you finding complicated?
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IMHO, the teaching on marriage annulments is one of the most complicated and difficult to understand teachings of the Roman Catholic church. Paraphrasing to some extent what Cardinal Kasper has said, it appears to some people that annulments are really Catholic divorces in a dishonest way. A couple is married for 15 years and have several children. There is never any question about the validity of the marriage. They were married by the local priest at the local Catholic church and their parents spent thousands of dollars on the wedding reception attended by over a hundred people. They were happily married for 15 years and there never was any question about their being married. Now the husband has to take a second job to support his wife and four children. Well, the wife does not like being alone and decides to join the feminist movement and engage in new and thrilling activities which include partying with a new boyfriend. The husband finds out from friends about his wife’s unfaithfulness and the wife decides to get a divorce and then apply to the Roman Catholic marriage tribunal which gives it to her. And she remarries. According to the tribunal she was never really sacramentally married in the first place although for 15 years no such question ever arose. Now according to Mark 10: 11 And He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her;
Well isn’t that exactly what happens in cases such as I have outlined above? The Roman Catholic marriage tribunal requires that the couple get a civil divorce before they will hear the case. Doesn’t the Catholic annulment process amount to looking for loopholes with regard to what Jesus has said in Mark 10: 11?
 
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Fill1sHeart said:
Are we all to blame ?
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I don’t find the Catholic faith to be particularly “complicated”, especially considering that many of the great saints were not highly educated theologians but instead were simple hermits, manual laborers, shepherds, domestic workers etc, who loved Jesus and prayed a lot.

Therefore, I’m certainly not taking the blame for some other person choosing or deciding to make religion harder than it has to be, when he could solve his problem by simply becoming “like little children” as Jesus himself directed.
 
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