> The roman catholic church has rules and nobody is forced to follow those rules. This is wishful thinking. There are many heavily (90%+) Catholic countries w

> The roman catholic church has rules and nobody is forced to follow those rules. This is wishful thinking. There are many heavily (90%+) Catholic countries with a culture that does not take kindly to outliers. You are forced to follow the rules, if not by threat of violence or social ostracization then by prosaic reality such as low to non-existent availability of condoms. Further, much as I wish everyone would think for themselves and so on, if you've always been taught that the church is not just right, but divinely infallible, and disobeying the teachings will score you an eternity of damnation and some nice hellfire, for many, many people disobeying will not be quite as easy as saying "nobody is forced to follow those rules."