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"That pretty much summarizes the catholic church (and what’s wrong with a lot of religion.)"

Actually, this pretty much summarizes what's wrong with a lot of religion:

In the words of Ayn Rand, "The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive—a definition that invalidates man’s consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence . . . Man’s mind, say the mystics of spirit, must be subordinated to the will of God . . . Man’s standard of value, say the mystics of spirit, is the pleasure of God, whose standards are beyond man’s power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith . . . The purpose of man’s life . . . is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question."
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To Believer,

Even more powerful than God are the human facilities of logic and reason (see Stone Problem as well as the contradiction inherent in being omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent).
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