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Originally posted by TheApostate
yeah, it's weirdos becoming priests not priests becoming weirdos
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A resounding 'Amen, brother!' on that one. My family is/was Catholic (my Dad was until he visited VietNam in the sixties, lol, now he's a 'recovering Catholic') but I was raised sort of anti-religious. My main curiosities fell upon the priest's role as an advisor, to family, to couple, to everybody. I never quite got how a man who's not allowed to fuck, who's not allowed to even wish for a family, and a man who's very dogma dictates that women are basically shit (ok, maybe that's too harsh, but close!) not holy enough to even BE a spiritual leader could possibly be expected to dish out advice that would accomplish anything except maybe to give Sickie Wifebeater more ammo. A group that condemns abortion for any reason as murder, and somehow manages to include condoms and the bc pill in the same equation, hence those seven and eight kid families that are destitute and yet still scrape up 10% (of what, their oatmeal?) to give their church... yep, the very same one that won't allow poor Mrs. Wifebeater the basic right to survive without being asskicked on a daily basis because she managed to marry some dipshit and now the church says she's stuck with him forever or else she's punted out of her 'God's' fold, while her church provides succor to some non-Catholic woman who's pimp kicked her ass and burned her house down for 'public relations' while telling that woman if she comes home to God none of this horrible stuff would happen to her anymore... as long as she avoided condoms, didn't want a divorce, and didn't mind taking advice from some freaky perv who's probably already thinking about boning her son.
But then, that's just my take on the recent events... with a little personal bitterness thrown in (the divorce thing is a big sore spot for me) for flavor. It's all really silly, and if it weren't for the victimization of these people, it'd be rather laughable. But the Church has a long and illustrious history of injuring, exploiting and even killing it's own congregation; on some level, I guess some people are probably glad they only got raped rather than burned at the stake.
Eeek, sounds so bitter, lol... for some reason, even though I'm not a 'Catholic' per se, maybe because it's my family background, these things with the priests and the church and the refusal of the church to accept any responsibility for their knowledge of and protection of these predators?
Oops, was that too serious for this forum? Heh, I've got a bug about THIS one...
Signin off, end rant, thanks for the space,
Michelle