The "catholic" church in particular is primarily a power-and-control-seeking political entity and a business corporation competing for (dominant even total) market share in the market-place of whats-in-it-for-me consumerist religiosity.
It also owns and controls the world's most extensive and very powerful propaganda machine. There are hundreds of back-to-the-past "catholic" websites/ blogs/substacks too. Its ideas are propagated via both paper and electronic media which in one way or another reach into every town in most of the world. It has countless thousands of parish schools wherein "catholic" dogma is drilled into the hearts and bodies of the children who attend them.
The "catholic" church in particular is primarily a power-and-control-seeking political entity and a business corporation competing for (dominant even total) market share in the market-place of whats-in-it-for-me consumerist religiosity.
It also owns and controls the world's most extensive and very powerful propaganda machine. There are hundreds of back-to-the-past "catholic" websites/ blogs/substacks too. Its ideas are propagated via both paper and electronic media which in one way or another reach into every town in most of the world. It has countless thousands of parish schools wherein "catholic" dogma is drilled into the hearts and bodies of the children who attend them.
It runs hundreds of "catholic" universities too.