THE ORIGINS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC MASS AS A MIND BLOWING SPECTACLE OF SOUND AND LIGHT.
I know that the Holy Roman Church created a spectacular display with impressive music performed on multi-toned Pipe Organs. Ornate Tapestries and Elaborate Paintings, Rich Robes, Impressive Head Gear, Gold and Silver Chalices, Plates and Cerebellum and symbols of Authority fit for a King decorated and Artfully Staged a Live Rock Performance Venue for the Priests and Bishops, Cardinals and Popes to wow the crowd.
During the bad old single digit centuries the Roman Catholic Church perpetrated some horrible atrocious barbaric policies and actions.
The horrific behavior by AUTHORITY has not ceased by any means but I think there has been some moderation of the senseless cruelty of AUTHORITY in much of the Twenty First Century. Thankfully the Religious Crazies are out of their AUTHORITY ROLE in most of the modern day Planet Earth. The incredibly barbaric drawing, hanging and quartering was perpetrated upon the citizens of Civilized Countries only a Century and a Half ago. When I see a falsely acting Law officer I think of that and I think of the Drawing and Quartering they did not so long ago.
Religious,and Imaginary Big Guy Friends and just plain Crazy Ideas still do plague us in the Twenty First Century but most places making an irreverent statement or gesture will no longer get you burned alive, though this single digit century behavior does still exist on Planet Earth in the Twenty First Century.
Impressing and drawing in the Congregation to a Place of Worship and Contribution with a Spectacle of Music and Exotic Visual Backdrops is a legitimate way to attract an audience.
Convening Panels of AUTHORITY and torturing and killing people to ensure compliance to the Dictates of Imaginary Big Guy Friends is no less than a Mad Moronic Stone Age Violent Response. The Catholics and Civil Authorities who espoused similar beliefs and used the same tactics kept up the uncivilized behavior for far too long and there are still people who act like violent Stone Age Morons or Mental Cases in the Twenty First Century.
ALL RELIGIONS ARE EQUAL, EACH EXALTED IN ITS OWN WAY AND ITS FOLLOWERS BELIEFS ARE SACRED.
LIKE HELL THEY ARE, THEY ARE ALL EQUALLY IRRATIONAL BELIEF SYSTEMS, UNEVIDENCED.
I am not sure if there are other ``Red or Dead`` Religious Philosophies that continue to be widely supported in the Twenty First Century. There is a Religion which has billions of Believers whose AUTHORITY is still used to stage the other Really Impressive Religious Extravaganza, the PUBLIC EXECUTION.
As a cartoonist, satirist, writer, musician, composer and lyricist any one of those occupations could allow State Monopoly Religion to CHOP OFF MY HEAD. I am not able in any way to condone a Religion whose believers still will go back to their Single Digit Century Roots in the Twenty First Century and
CHOP OFF YOUR HEAD FOR OFFENDING THEIR IMAGINARY BIG GUY FRIEND IF YOU ARE IN REACH OF THEIR CHURCH-STATE AUTHORITY. IF YOU ARE NOT THEN THE PEOPLE WITH THE SINGLE DIGIT MINDS WILL BOMB OR SHOOT OR RUN OVER YOU.
