Forced onto people, superficial.
Once the church lost most of their political power, see how the people abandoned these institutions 😂
Now everybody can openly talk about priests abusing children and nuns, embezzlement and grotesque wasting of funds, brainwashing believers into giving their hard earned money to the church to save their souls as well as those of already deceases family members from hell and using it to build lavish pompous cathedrals;and the century long spiritual and psychological abuse the church used to control everyone.
Common values my rear😂
All we had in common was our abuser
Calling church the abuser when it was the only institution that preserved Greek and Roman literature is a strange take.
History is history, there are no simple roles in describing 1000 years after a millenary empire fell.
The same way you say the church "abused" we could argue roman abused the whole continent, but they also brought fresh water and roads and laws.
Saying that the contribution of Catholic church is a net negative is for me wrong, but I understand that's a complicated topic.
Just saying that without the church, we would have enough lost aristoteles, plato and the origin of western culture.