Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Unforgivable Perversion: The Greatest Catholic Church Abuse Scandal Since Alexander VI" video.

  1. I'm no scholar, but the Catholic hierarchy has always been notorious for debauchery. I think that's why the chastity of priests thing was invented. Before that, the whoring was pretty much out in the open. Centuries ago, the priesthood was one of the most privileged groups within the larger ruling class, and their amorality was widely known. It's ironic that the Lutheran Church was hand in glove with the governments of Northern Europe for a long time. They were part of the civil authority. I think Soren Kirkegaard was deeply affected by this. It's not the Catholics or the Lutherans, per se. It's any hierarchy that persists over large spans of time and space. The fact of its existence means power. Power attracts the corrupt and corrupt. And the corrupt within its ranks play politics to rise within the hierarchy. It's the same in churches as it is in government institutions as it is in corporations. That's why we need limited government, to keep a lid on the harm done, and make it harder to hide the corruption in government. In turn, that limited government, with a BASIC rule set, keeps the corporations in check by never complicating the rules that keep those corporations on top long after the rot sets in. A free market, with an even playing field, will check those big corporations when they get out of hand MUCH better than government regulators with the authority of the state but on the payroll of the corporations, especially with a truly free press and whistleblowers calling them out. But the more the government intervenes, the easier it is to have a fake free press that does the bidding of corrupt government and corporations. They all do each others' will for their mutual benefit and to the detriment of the common person. Whatever the (contrived) issue/crisis of the day, government intervention is always done in such a way as to protect the big and punish the small. We saw it with COVID, with terrorism, and we've already seen it with climate change - and more to come on climate change, now that COVID appears to be running out of steam. In a truly free market, with a truly free press, private businesses will set higher standards than mere government minimums, and good, small companies aren't so easily crushed by selective enforcement and regulations designed to prop up big and hurt small.
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