Maybe I've got this all wrong. Why don't you read this and let me know. The Pope says he is deeply ashamed about the pedophilia of American Catholic priests. Shame indicates that he is embarrassed that it was discovered, not that he feels any personal responsibility for it, much less guilt.
The Pope maintains that it is the moral laxity of American society that led the priests astray, making it our fault. The solution to the problem, therefore, is to eliminate America's secular society. We must make not only abortion but birth control, divorce, unwed cohabitation, indeed all non-standard sexual relationships illegal. We must outlaw anything he considers pornography. We must not tolerate provocative dress or behavior within society. In other words, the standards of the church must become the standards of society, in order to protect ourselves from ourselves. He also states that religion is not a personal, private matter. People must participate in religion and demonstrate their faith publicly, so that others may know, when interacting with them, that they are not deviant.
This is my problem with the Catholic church. They espouse Catholicism as the only acceptable religion. Their idea of ecumenicism is that all other faiths and sects reconcile and become part of the Catholic church. They believe that the Catholic church should be the state sanctioned organ of religion in every society. They don't say it very loud or even in public, very often but the bottom line is, they do not believe in the separation of church and state.
These are not the opinions of any of the Catholic people that are my neighbors, that I work with, or that I grew up with. I do not fear a Catholic conspiracy to subvert the separation of church and state or the freedom of religion that are treasured foundations of this great nation. These are not the opinions of the Catholics of Hispanic origin who have swelled the ranks of the church in recent decades. I do not even believe they are the beliefs of many of the leaders of the Catholic clergy in this country. They are the beliefs that the Pope seeks to inculcate into the American Roman Catholic congregation.
These are the stated beliefs and goals of the twisted old Nazi, who runs the whole show, from his hideous nest of corruption in Rome. Nobody within the hierarchy of the church will stand up and tell him no. This is what worries me.
2 comments:
I pay little attention to the Pope. I feel addressing the priest-pedophilia crisis as a apology is useless.
I feel that researchers have uncovered enough information to prove that Jesus wasn't a historical figure, that he was a mythological creature. Where does that leave the Church of Rome?
This was a pretty good essay on the social problems here in America. But in the same breath you chose to lash out at the Pope, as if he were Satan himself.
I can't understand why you have such animosity towards someone who has a message of peace, respect for life at all stages, moral decency, and the solidarity of the family. Why are you against that?
Also, calling the Pope a Nazi is not only inaccurate, but hateful. And you know it. And you say Christians are hateful. You can teach them a thing or two.
Furthermore, I dare you to rewrite this post, substituting "Catholic" for "Jew", and then republish it. But you won't because you know that kind of bigotry is abhorrent, but anti-Catholic bigotry is acceptable.
You rale against those who sexually abuse children (hey you got that right, but even a broken clock is right twice a day), and rightly so, yet you have no qualms about killing children before they are born. And you call the Pope evil?
Science and medical technology has long determined that a fetus is not just a "lump of tissue" that can be removed as blithely as a wart. It is a genetically unique individual, whose life is seperate from the mother. It's heart is beating within just 5 weeks. Babies have survived birth as early as 23 weeks, long after the time that many abortions are conducted.
The baby is in the womb one day, and out the next. It's ok to kill it in the womb, but not out? This is the logic of the pro-abortion mentality. Yet we're somehow evil because we want babies to live? What's your answer to that?
Oh, and Beebs, your assertion that Jesus was a mythical figure is inaccurate. You're just parroting the same claptrap that all atheists spew, without checking the facts.
There are many eyewitness accounts of him by non-Jewish, and non-Christian historians, if you care to do proper research.
But I have a feeling you prefer to remain ignorant of history.
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