I realized in my late 20's that I was a non-believer. That's not to say I never had issues with my religion (from as early as age ten) but most of the time I pushed it away, not willing to acknowledge what seemed horrible at the time: denying everything my parents stood for. Until then, I was a good Catholic. I took its prohibitions against sex outside of marriage seriously and when I married its views on birth control. Let me state categorically that most Catholics, unlike me, who call themselves Catholics don't accept church teachings (about 90%) and don't follow the precepts that are inconvenient to their personal lifestyles. If you're a professing Catholic, and you've had sex outside of marriage or used birth control within your marriage, you're a hypocrite, a Catholic of convenience. I'd suggest you examine your conscience and stop with the nonsense.
Until this year, I had a warm feeling for the Catholic Church, primarily because of my mother, who was an extraordinarily good person and a true Christian. But this year the warm feeling is gone, completely. Today Cardinal Dolan threatened that if the Obama administration keeps its mandate that the Church, in its hospitals and industries (lots of those), provide birth control coverage to its employees, it may have to stop providing services to the poor. There is no redeeming value provided by the Catholic Church if it stops providing services to the poor. It has to go--let's say goodbye to the pedophiles. If you call yourself a liberal and still support any aspect of Catholicism, you're lying to yourself. And if you believe in the Christian mission, you're even a greater hypocrite.
Yes, I'm angry. You should be as well!
Haha, this is not a good blog. You mix religious doctrines with political clout.
ReplyDeleteThe Church's doctrine is clear on abortion and birth control. "Go forth yourself, and multiply -- by sexual or even asexual reproduction."
This is doctrine. It's not politics. It is the bread and butter of Catholicism, it is the blood and the bread they break and drink at services. This is really important to RC's, and the Vatican backs this doctrine up 100 percent.
If a political entity wants to encroach on the politics of religion, fine. But politics must not dictate the doctrines of a church -- RC or other.
The threat is real. So RC came back with a real threat. If you, ms. Blogger, think they play lowball or dirty ball or belt under the belt, then I say, no, if you consider where they come from, and what threat presented to them is.
It's like saying to Evangelists, "okay, you can have American democracy in the entire world, and everyone being Christian, as long as you replace the Bible with the Q'ran."
You can't mess with the essentials of a religion. You can't mess with syllogisms if you are a logician, you can't mess with telescopes if you are an astrologist, you can't mess with petri dish cultures when you are a microbiologist.
You simply can't mess with god, if you are a believer, and if others want you to do that, you must first die before you follow suit.
But before you die, you are allowed to try other venues to make the rulers change their minds on a political ruling, and that's what the RCs are trying to do.
With all due respect, ms. Blogger, I think we must never allow ourselves become fanatics ourselves; and that requires a certain amount of allowance for differentness, and a certain amount of insight at least to see what is a completely unultimatable proposition to some body of thinkers or faithers.