Religion and hypocrisy.

I was brought up Catholic and ever since I could think for myself, I've wondered about the hypocrisy that causes Catholics specifically to preach compassion but never practise it.

When I was younger, a child, I questioned my grandmother about divorce in the Catholic Church. For some reason, which I have not been able to comprehend even now, divorce is one of the things you just shouldn't follow through with when you're Catholic (read: Henry VIII and that whole pesky business with the Anglican Church).

"Well," she told me. "Marriage is sacred and you shouldn't marry more than once."
"What if you marry someone abusive?" I asked.
"Then you shouldn't have gotten to know them before you married them," she explained patiently.

Wait, what.

• I SMELL VICTIM BLAMING

I can't believe that there are entire generations of people who grew up without questioning this mentality.

And this is the problem I have with man made laws decreed to be god approved.