@Ela Kind of, yeah. Some prefer to suffer as their Lord did for them, to bring them to a closer state of being. Some quite sadistic, like the American Indian Sun Ritual with the hooks all over their body, and their spirit walks or whatever where they’d not eat or drink to reach a spiritual state. Lots of cultures or faiths have rituals like that.
Also to answer the Catholic question, some people, and some sects of many religions take the Bible literallly about “go forth and mulitply” and many other scriptural passages. Most Catholics in my area still are quite fruitful, not me though.
Just try to remember there are Christians of many many varying faiths, especially in America where people broke from the traditional churches and formed new ones. Like The Catholic sect allowing priests and nuns to marry. There’s people like Westoboro Church that says they’re Christians then protest military funerals all over, even non-Christians dislike them. Just because someone says they’re a Christian, it basically just means they are a follower of Christ Jesus, the rest is all subject to individual preachers and sects.
Painting everyone with the same brush always leads to misunderstanding. I don’t consider myself the best representative of Christ in any way, all I’m doing is standing up for myself and my freedom of speech really, it turned into something different, and while I accept that and rejoice in it, it was not my primary purpose at any time in the past or present.