Of Power and Piety: An Inquisition into The Roman Catholic Church Essa

Religion is thought to provide comfort to the inner most(prenominal) part of a human the soul. However, what happens when religion seeks to everywherestep its rightful boundaries and attempts to instruction humans from the outside, rather than uplift them from within. Such is the fault of the largest religious formation on Earth The Roman Catholic perform. Throughout history, the Catholic church service has been among the most infamous of faith-groups due to its apparent conquest for absolute handedness over the minds, bodies, and souls of humanity. The Roman Catholic Church has and continues to play a blackb each(prenominal) role in the world with respect to the fields of science, politics, and culture, undermining the quality of deportment for adherents and infidels alike. The Church has and continues to impede humanitys quest for knowledge and successfulness through its repression of science. As well, it has been involved in among the most infamous events passim history. Finally, the Church has made its blatant that it seeks to turn back the hands of cadence worth respect to progressive social change through tis lecture of its archaic attitudes on contemporary social issues.The Roman Catholic Church has throughout history, impeded scientific discovery, which thereby impaired humanitys progress towards better understanding of and prospering in the world. Being the most catholic of the worlds faiths, the church has wielded an uncanny grip over the hearts and minds of a large portion of the human race this was its ascendent of power. To ensure that this power would never be lost, the church had to appeal to all faculties of the human condition, including those of wondering and reason. To this end, the church only tolerated explanations of the workings of the universe that w... ...578d3124b4%40sessionmgr11&bdata=Jmxhbmc9ZW4tY2Emc2l0ZT1wb3YtY2Fu db=p3h&AN=1639206 Robinson, B.A. The role of the Roman Catholic Church in the Shoah (Nazi Holoca ust). religious tolerance.org. Retrieved from http//www.religioustolerance.org/vat_hol12.htm The compensate of the Church Authority.. Albalagh Retrieved from http//www.albalagh.net/kids/history/church_decline.shtml Dickson White, Andrew. A History of the Warfare of Science with faith in Christendom. University of Michigan Center for the Study of Complex Systems. Retrieved from http//cscs.umich.edu/crshalizi/White/ Hawkes, Charles, and Jennifer Watt. What Makes us Human. Images of society introduction to anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Toronto. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2001. Pg39.