why Catholics make the best submissives

"Lord, Jesus Christ, I approach your banquet table in fear and trembling... I am defiled by many sins in body and soul... I seek your protection, I look for your healing. I cannot bear your judgment, but I trust in your salvation. Lord, I show my wounds to you and uncover my shame before you... May [your body and blood] incite me to do the works pleasing to you and profitable to my health in body and soul."

God is the Cosmic Dom who lays down rules. We obey God because we need him. We are born naturally sorrowful, and it is only by his word and his grace that we find personal fulfillment. He is infallible. It is only in his perfection that we can trust. He knows what is good for us. We obey because it is only right. God knows us intimately and loves us unconditionally; he protects us because we are his and he takes care of those that are his. The least we can do is serve him in return. However, we are never FORCED to obey him-- we obey because we love him, and love is service. We have all the free will in the world to tell him to fuck off, but we don't because in our devotion, we believe he is worth this all. He who forces us the least has the most claim on us.

This has always sounded an awful lot like D/s to me. Both stories tell of a much-awaited escape from earthly pleasures and into a place of sheer bliss. They both involve a sinner/submissive and a forgiver/Dominant, who aside from having created us also guides us PERFECTLY so that we might find ourselves. This god works in mysterious ways, often causing us pain and sorrow precisely to be free of both. ("You ask us to express our thanks by self-denial. We are to master our sinfulness and conquer our pride." "You give us strength to purify our hearts, to control our desires, and so to serve you in freedom.") We are made comfortable by being drawn a box and being promised that as long as we fall within that box, we are completely and utterly free. We are taught to question (three ways by which we can know god: light of reason, light of faith, and divine revelation), but to also accept that reason is limited and faith takes over where it ends. In the end, we believe because it is who we are. We cannot fight against our nature.

Neither D/s nor Catholicism ever tries to hide the fact that it is a two-way relationship. The Dom/God gives: he grapples with much of real life and sin so that we do not have to, and provides safety and protection. He takes care of us and helps us to do what is good for us. In return, we, the submissives/believers, give him our whole hearts, minds, souls, and bodies to do with as he wishes. We give him loving service, total submission, and an unbelievably unshakable loyalty.