Be fair now, the Catholic Church hasn't always and consistently been a backward medieval deathcult - there have been periods of non Crusading, non Inquisition, not slaughtering Cathars, not trading in babies, etc.
Both are backward medieval deathcults to atheists.
atheists put in place MAID which is in itself a deathcult
Why are you complaining? Isn't it great that you get to meet your maker earlier?
But one couldbuild societies and institutions that made it fade into the background the other did not