>>13229069>It was a way to become a celebrity. Singing in the church choir was one of the only outlets before any kind of media was a thing.you're forgetting the most oblivious answer, money
a lot of people were extremely poor, and the catholic church was richer than most countries in europe combined
this is basically like a priest coming up to you today, saying he will pay you 2 million dollars if you give him your tenth kid that he will sexually abuse and castrate
obliviously most parents abhored the mere thought, but it's a number's game, the church and their sickos had the money to convince anyone willing to let himself be corrupted and sell his child into a life of rape and genita mulilation
daily reminder that the nazis held huge scale "morality trials" where they arrested almost every single christian priest and sent them to concentration camps, google "morality trials"
https://parkerzk.com/2021/05/13/nazi-party-vs-christianity-immorality-trials-against-roman-catholics/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchenkampf 