the catholic church used to to sell indulgences, they'd let people pay cash to receive metaphysical forgiveness of guilt for all sorts of terrible crimes. how did anyone ever belief in something so transparently fraudulent. those people should go to a psychiatrist and have their head examined. while they're at the psychiatrist's office they can all also ask for supposedly scientific excuses for whatever horrible irrational behaviors they engage in, the psychiatrist can explain away just about any behaviors, costs $200/hr. in 1981 john hinckley jr, son of one of the richest oil men in america, shot the president and psychiatric priests came to the defense of the hinckley boy in court. hinckley had committed the most egregious public crime in modern memory, but the court's verdict was "not guilty" on the word of those priests.
