Juggalo, you misread my post in some parts, and in others, you're wrong. It is a FACT that at the very beginning of Christianity, the first church fathers such as St Augustine, St Jerome and others explicitly hid certain truths from the public in order to be able to control them. How do we know this? There are ancient texts, handwritten by these Church fathers, that clearly state that they had the intention of making people believe that these stories were factual, when most pagans of the time understood them to be myth, and nothing else. Being an historian, I've read up a lot on this kind of stuff, and sometimes ignorance is bliss, because when I found all this stuff out, it scared the shit out of me. Believe me, all I write here is true, and corroborated by most scholars. In fact, one of the books I read was written by a former priest who was completely disillusioned by the Anglican Church. Of course, after many centuries of making their flocks believe this crap, church officials eventually forgot that what they were preaching were lies, and began to believe it themselves. This is part of the explanation of why the Dark Ages were dark.

And my comparison of the Catholic Church and Communism involved only the distortion and withholding of truth. Of course, in all other ways, they're completely different, but my point was that they both use the same techniques to control the people they dominate, so that they will not rebel against them.