The sin of Fundamentalist Catholics, at least materially, is what I call simony. I used to think simony was a sin from the past, I was wrong.
Simony is basically selling spiritual favours commercially. In the Middle Ages you might see some people who try to sell... permissions to eat meat on fridays. Really.
But Fundamentalists' simony is way worse. They say/think things like :
- "don't listen the Modernist/Post-conciliar Catholics, you'd go to Hell if you listen to them, the Pope is sinful, blablabla..." (because we have a Bishop that's wiser than the Pope, the Pope is a left-winger)
- "don't watch TV, don't play video games, don't listen popular music" (because we sell non-sinful entertainment)
- "you might go to Hell if you don't vote for that far-righter, because he's the only presidential candidate to be against abortion" (we work for him)
- "do make 10+ children" (they'll expand our movement and become clients to our boarding schools)
- "put your children to that expensive 'Catholic' boarding school, even if it means you disable the heating at home on Winter" (we want your money or we'll let you go to Hell)
- "you shouldn't marry if you're mentally ill" (because we think your disability makes you unable to care of a family, don't marry because it's what we think the general interest)
- "you must marry another Fundamentalist" (otherwise you'll go to Hell with your children)
- "we're Traditionalist, not Fundamentalist" (because the mass medias are a bunch of left-wingers)
- "never work for any pharmacy, it's sinful because you'll sell abortion pills, but the best job is being a cop" (we need regalian officials to make us untouchable)
- "we care about Down Syndrome because there is a researcher among us" (classic far-righter virtue-signalling, like having a gay friend means you're certainly not homophobic)
- "goths don't look like anything" (because White Power skinheads do)
- "you're with us, you have the honor to belong to a spiritual elite" (enough said...)
- "don't read Saint Thomas Aquinas, it's too complicated for you" (I read it and discovered some priests lied to me)
- "We're not racist, we've got a few Black people with us" (and they have Fundamentalist missions in Africa)
- "you're an elderly who'll die in a few months ? give all your life savings to Church, we're here to educate people spritually, more seriously than anyone else" (... I know a far-right politician who did almost the same to become rich)
Enough said even if it's not enough said, I'm able to talk about them for hours.
The Fundamentalist sect I used to hang out with (for 10+ years) was at best a shady private company, and at worst a criminal organization.
Humanly, it's not as terrible as the mass medias says, but still today I'm harrassed by feelings I might go to Hell.
A woman was an expert of sects, and she told me the Fundamentalists bosses live in luxury and cover up pedophile priests.
Why is it simony ? Because they act like they sell you Heaven. Like "give us your life and your money otherwise you'll go to Hell"
I might have been offended in an exceptionally grave way, and others way more, but God was way more offended. You sell food for money, you sell shoes for money, you sell consumer electronics for money. You do not sell God for money. Period.