Later the Catholic Church allowed cremation. The supposed effect of this sacrament has seldom changed Catholic into desiring to follow Christ, or there would not be this wholesale denial of Christ daily. Freedom exists as a theory in the Catholic Church. Let priests and nuns picket for strikers and Negroes, and supposedly liberal bishops like Bishop Lucey of San Antonio are just as quick to punish them as Cardinal McIntyre is in Los Angeles. Here in Salt Lake City I know priests who read the Catholic Worker and the liberal National Catholic Reporter and who really know better than to support war and the conservative system of society around them, but the fear they have makes them subservient to their conservative bishop.
Love is a word used without meaning by the clergy.
From the pope down to the layman the emphasis upon pomp and wealth and prosperity while the world starves and wars go on is a denial of Christ. Heresy is a word that has no meaning to me now, for I renounce the whole system of Catholic or other theology, which is based upon the fear of hell and the hope of getting into heaven by all sorts of dubious bargains. I still think that this idea is the most logical, but really there is no answer to the problem of evil. If I don't believe in reincarnation and it is true, I'll be reincarnated whether I believe in it or not. If it isn't true, believing in it will not make it true.