When I first questioned the religion that my family had imposed on me during my younger years, I remember my mom crying about it for weeks. She wasn't ready to accept the idea that her only daughter wouldn't be by her side for an eternity in heaven. This not only meant that her little daughter had lost faith in a god, but also that she was on a path to eternal damnation. It was a path that she wanted to know nothing about, the "path of sinners” as she used to describe it.

History has taught us that religion will always form a part of the social system worldwide. All doctrines are only so many paths, but a path is by no means God himself.

The Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.27 billion people from all around the world considering themselves a part of this movement. It is one of the oldest churches in the modern world and it has played a prominent role in the development of the western civilization, rooted deeply into the consciousness of an entire continent.

A life without the influence of a religion and a god is hard to imagine nowadays.

Most of the biggest atrocities on human history have been done in the loving name of a god, disguised as a divine mission to satisfy the desires of such entity. Children have been killed, families have been separated, heads have rolled, eyes have cried--all for the sake pleasing and serving beings that are often portrayed as higher beings floating around the cosmos. This god is believed to send specific orders to us, his loyal servants, who for ages have known him to be a loving father.

It’s not hard for me to imagine Jahve as a loving paternal father. I can truly relate to the religion that it belongs to. When I think of god as a father, I like to imagine him as the type of father who will lock you inside your room, set the room on fire and leave you there forever to punish you for the sins you’ve done. After all, isn’t this what infinite love means to all of us?

1. The Catholic church is NOTHING but a copycat of the Egyptian religion.

During the recorded history of the Catholic church, many scholars have noted and compared some of the religion’s main aspects to the ancient Egyptian religion, which worshiped Horus as its main god.

Horus, like many other ancient gods, resembled the sun. He was designed in such a way that the followers of the religion would recognize this pattern and subconsciously relate him to the sun. For example, Horus was depicted with a circle on top of his head, an image that mirrors the sun’s appearance.

But contemporary Jesus worshipers might be surprised, even outraged, to learn that one of their popular religious symbols precedes Christianity and has its roots in pagan fertility awareness and sexuality.o this world and 3 kings were there to welcome him when he was born. He started teaching his faithful followers at the age of 12. He was baptized at 30 and was always accompanied by 12 disciples. Was Jesus the first figure your mind? Then you’re wrong. All of these characteristics also describe the coming of Horus into the world.

To add to these facts, the Egyptians first practiced circumcision and baptism long before these rituals were adopted by Christianity as their own.

This was hardly the only time that they appropriated another religion’s concept as their own. The story of Noah’s Ark was also taken from an old Sumerian tale wherein Ziusudra, the Sumerian version of Noah, was also commanded by a god to build an ark to save himself and his family from a devastating world flood.

2. The coming of Jesus into this world is a symbolic way to describe the ending of a year.

First of all, the sequence of the birth of Jesus has an astrological basis. Sirius, the star of the east and the brightest star in the night sky, aligns with the three brightest stars in Orion’s belt on December 24. These three bright stars in Orion’s belt are what they called in the ancient times as “The Three Kings.” These three stars all point toward the brightest star in the east on December 25. This is why “The Three Kings” followed the star in the east in order to locate the sunrise or “The birth of the sun.”

The virgin Mary is also the constellation Virgo, also known as “Virgo, the virgin.” The glyph that represents Virgo is the letter “M” in our alphabet. This also explains why many of the sacred mothers in other religions also start with this letter, like Adonis's mother Myrrha or Buddha’s mother Maya.

Virgo is also referred to as the “House of bread” and the representation of Virgo is also a virgin holding a sheet of wheat. Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, literally means “The house of bread.” This only tells us that Bethlehem is not actually a physical place, but a place in the sky as it refers to Virgo or the “House of bread.”

There’s another interesting phenomenon that occurs within this period of the year. During the transition from summer to winter, the days become shorter and colder and from the perspective of the northern hemisphere, the sun appears to move south and it becomes smaller and more scarce. The shortening of the days when winter solstice approaches symbolized the process of death in the ancient times. It was the death of the sun and by December 22, after months of moving south, the sun reaches its lowest point in the sky. An interesting thing happens after this phenomenon.

For three days, the sun stays at this low point and it appears next to the southern cross or Crux constellation. On December 25, after those three days, the sun finally moves and gives the promise of longer days and more warmth.

And so it appears that the sun died in the cross and resurrected three days after this. This is why Jesus and numerous other sun gods share the same concepts such as: being born on the 25th, resurrection after 3 days, and the like.

3. The Catholic Church is full of pagan symbolism.

As you can see, there’s a pattern of Roman Church propitiation of external concepts, and so far there’s nothing but harsh truth coming at us from all sides.

No other propitiation is more obvious than the symbols that the church took from other religions and converted into their own:

Triquetra: The Roman Catholic Church uses this symbol to represent the holy trinity. First instances of the use of this symbol had been found on runestones in Northern Europe and on Germanic coins. It was used as a way to represent the Nordic god Odin.

The Triquetra has been used extensively in Christian art and architecture. Even some versions of the bible have this printed either on the cover or on some pages of it.

Celtic Cross: Is a symbol that combines a cross with a ring surrounding the intersection, with the cross's stem being longer than the other three's intersection.

Their first uses were linked to paganism and it is believed that Saint Patrick first used the symbol as a way to attract pagan practices into the Christian religion. Today, it is common to find this type of cross around the world on churches, art, etc.

Jesus Fish: For many pop-culture Christians, the "fish" decal on the back car bumper, key chain, or door is a symbol of their religion. It is considered a feel-good statement about Jesus Christ.

Well before Christianity, the fish symbol was known as "the Great Mother," a pointed oval sign or the "vesica piscis" or Vessel of the Fish. "Fish" and "womb" were synonymous terms in ancient Greek. Its link to fertility, birth, feminine sexuality and the natural force of women was acknowledged also by the Celts, as well as pagan cultures throughout northern Europe.