The Stupidity and Superstition of "Blessed Palm Leaves"

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Palm Sunday is today and it would be best to address the stupidity of "blessed palms". I remembered I was a former Roman Catholic and I tore apart some "blessed palms" and got spanked for it, I was made to confess to the priest who blessed it and was told to do penance. I remembered how some people were scolded for accidentally burning the "blessed palms". Today is the commemoration of the arrival of Jesus into Jerusalem. It was also the very arrival of the Passover lamb which would be inspected for four days before it would be slaughtered as an unblemished sacrifice. Remember that Lent is to celebrate what was already done and not something that's repeatedly done.

So what's the stupidity behind the "blessed" palms? We have to understand these are but palm leaves and some of them are formed as crosses. The priest who supposedly has the power to "save souls" now blesses them. Such power has left many ignorant Roman Catholics in bondage. To believe that these leaves are supposedly "consecrated" already is stupid. They would soon dry out and be worn out yet some people even fear burning them because they have supposedly "become sacred" which is but a lie. They would dry out and eventually be decomposed like every other dead leaf - yet some people still want to regard them as "sacred" and should never be thrown out. So did the blessing of the priest turn the palm leaves as sacred and something that can save the souls?

Some Roman Catholic websites such as Catholic.org and Aleteia.org suggest to burn them back to the soil as a respectful way of disposing of them. Yet, some Roman Catholics stubbornly refuse to do so. Others are told to simply turn them over to the church to make "holy ash" - yet another stupid ritual that has people believing that priests "save souls" - in spite of all the hypocrisy shown such as multiple sex scandals involving women, children, and even fellow priests and nuns! So the priest might as well have inadvertently cursed the palm leaves instead of blessing them instead.

These "blessed" palm leaves are but windows of the occult. Relying on or putting these palm crosses as decorations near the images of Roman Catholic "saints", crucifixes or "Mama Mary" is nothing more than superstition. If you're a Roman Catholic and reading this - I hope this will be an eye-opener that those "blessed" leaves aren't blessed at all. I know many will hate me for this but it's my duty to warn others!

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