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contact with existence. He always wants you to write your love letters "care of" the priest. Your prayers can reach to God only through the priest. Strange, on what authority...?
Just a few days ago, the head of the Christians, the pope, declared that one of the greatest sins is to confess directly to God -- confession has to be to the priest. Do you understand this cunning strategy? The Catholic priest is always there to listen to your confession, and you have to tell him everything about your sins, your private life. That gives him power. Do you understand? He has a file on you. You cannot leave the Catholic fold.
He can expose you. He can destroy your respectability. He knows that you have had a love affair with your neighbor's wife.... You can hide from everybody but not from the priest, because he is the only one who can manage forgiveness from God for your sins. But strange, why can you not confess to God directly? This is politics; this is not religion.
I have come across priests of all the religions, and I have never seen any one of them that has any intelligence. If they had any intelligence they would compose music, they would create some beauty, they would invent something to enhance humanity. They would find some way to destroy poverty in the world.
But the priest goes on doing just the contrary. All the priests of all the religions, without exception, are against birth control, they are against abortion. I was talking to a bishop and I told him that if there are abortions, he was responsible for them.
He said, "What are you saying? We are against abortions."
I said, "Yes, I know it, but you are also against birth control. If you were in favor of birth control there would be no need for abortions."
Seeing the whole world growing in population and poverty, these priests go on teaching that children are produced by God, and that to prevent more births by any scientific method is against religion.
I cannot think that these people are intelligent. They want to turn the whole earth into an Ethiopia. Millions of people will die by the end of this century without any nuclear weapons being used. Almost
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