Reply #3: A couple of things. [View All]

[no_hypocrisy]

It's definite and definitive. They have the answers for the imponderables of Life and Death.

Plus lots of rules for a disciplined and responsible life (if you're into that) without any personal responsibility for occasional failure.

Not to mention a pay-off with life/Paradise after death, so no matter how crappy your life is and/or has been, you are rewarded when you die, provided you've been faithful and played by their rules.

My sister wanted to convert to Catholicism. Our mother asked for a reason. My sister admitted that there were so many rules that she wouldn't have to think for herself. (She really said that.) And letting the Church decide for her made her feel secure.