It’s not most churches. You don’t think Protestant churches, Evangelical churches, synagogues, etc have the same scale problem?

Gossip is a worse plague than Covid

Obviously he’s talking about hate and discrimination.

Thanks. I definitely try to inspect everything, for what little good it brings to me. There is just so much shit and only a short life-time to learn it.

The Pope is infallible, even when he contradicts himself, or someone comes in later and contradicts him. I think if I was still Catholic I would likely be one of those cringe Catholics that only attends Latin mass. Although, to be fair, my personal idea for a reformed Church is to lean away from social conservativism and instead way into the occult, obscure and mystical elements of Catholicism, particularly the crazy ass medieval festivals, with a rigorous return to Latin. Rationalism is not and never has been a good fit for the Church, blame that I lay squarely at the feet of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

I call him a meta-physical philosopher because much of what he talks about is derivations of ethics and the nature of religion and God in relationship to those ethical categories. It’s arguably more tangential to metaphysics than metaphysics itself, but claims like ‘God is dead’ and the historical-socio-ethical reasoning behind that are incredibly metaphysical statements. However, you are correct that most of his actual metaphysical work is derived from an re-phrasing Schopenhauer, but I didn’t read any Schopenhauer until college, so I didn’t know that and at the time it blew my little freaking mind.

I will be honest, my preference is for Hume, as Kant is an enormous windbag, though tiny compared to Hegel. That said, you really should give ‘Critique of Pure Reason’ another go-around, it’s one of those seminal texts that will be constantly referenced in everything forever, and really makes up the majority of his and everyone’s groundwork for literally everything afterwards particularly liberalism. Regardless if or not you think he actually solved Hume’s is-ought pincer and problem of causality, it is basically impossible to understand why Kant leans so hard into deontology without reading it. But if you really want to piss people off, just read and retort with Hume, he is basically the philosophical linebacker for Western philosophy.