LOL - That got you curious, didn't it?
It's pretty likely that you don't know this author, but I know him very well, personally. He is both one of very few truly good men in this world and and an underated talent. He recently penned an interesting piece reporting on the Vatican's position on Global Warming.
I always find it interesting when science and religion can agree on something. I wonder how this will affect the Catholic vote? (Sorry - the WHITE Catholic vote, I mean! LOL)
Actually, I'm sure this will just be more fodder for those other religious 'Mercans who view the Vatican as "just another European country that hates us." Yeah - I actualy got that in an email from a [Conservative, Baptist] friend of mine back when the pope was coming out against the execution of Saddam Hussein after having condemned the US's invasion of Iraq. After a rather loud *sigh* I explained that this is, in fact, what a PRINCIPLED "pro-life" position looks like: Against abortion, yes, but ALSO against the Death Penalty and War, in general. He conceded the point, but said he still thought it was "strange."
Well, there's plenty that the Vatican gets wrong, but I'll take them ANY day over the average 'Mercan Mega-Church. It's nice to see them on the right side of this one. Maybe religion can actually do some good after all!
Who IS this guy?!
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Showing posts with label catholic. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Thursday, April 8, 2010
In defense of pedophilia... (How's THAT for a lead?)
I know, I know: ENERGY! Dude, WTF? I’ll get to energy next. I promise. I just could not let THIS pass...
Last week, Bill Donohue – that great defender of Catholicism that the Vatican goes out of their way to disassociate themselves with – comes out and blames the preponderance of pedophile priests on “liberals” who let “gays” in to the church.
That’s the ROMAN CATHOLIC church, now. That great bastion of liberalism that doesn’t allow women to lead mass, that doesn’t allow even contraception, let alone abortion, that doesn’t marry gays, that says they will all go to hell… THAT Roman Catholic Church. The very idea that these guys, as an organization, are liberal AT ALL is laughable on its face to anyone not already brainwashed by the ultra-loony 1930’s era Tent-Revivalism, or Evangelical Funny-Mentalism as I call it, that's infected so much of America over the past 30 years.
Second, it is patently absurd to call a male pedophile “gay” simply because he molests boys. Would this then be a heterosexual issue if he molested girls? Because many did you know! As I understand it, there’s about an 80-20 split. So if there are thousands of male victims, that leaves hundreds of female ones! Pedophilia is pedophilia and homosexuality is homosexuality. Is is no more than religiously motivated superstition and/or politically motivated bigotry to even attempt to link them. A homosexual man is no more likely to like boys than a heterosexual man and a pedophile is no more likely to be homosexual than the general population is. Period. That’s a FACT and you can look it up in any work NOT written by a right-wing bigot under the guise of religious conservatism.
Bill? The problem is neither gays, nor liberals. It's the CURCH and the CLERGY and (now, so it appears) the POPE. It’s their problem, pure and simple. It’s been going on since blacks and white still couldn’t marry and same-sex marriage wasn’t even on anyone’s wildest possible political radar. They had their chance to do the right thing, and instead they did the Right thing. And if you’re still covering for them, then you’re as guilty as they are!
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Which brings me to THIS PIECE by Rush Limbaugh, who thinks that the Left is trying to take down the church, as they want to tear down “all institutions that aren’t for big government.” First of all? The church doesn’t give a shit about the size of the government. Why should they? They don’t pay taxes! They lean Republican for two reason: Gays and Abortion. Or really one reason: The Republicans shamelessly pander to them, despite the Constitution’s prohibition of them doing so.
It does make me wonder though, why Rush is picking THIS ISSUE to politicize. I mean… am I going MAD, or is he literally DEFENDING pedophiles here?! Can anyone think of a LESS sympathetic group of people to give the benefit of the doubt to, to sympathize with, and defend against that cruel “left-wing media” than fucking PEDOPHILES?! Pedophiles, BTW, who won’t marry you if you cohabitate – learned THAT the hard way – and who will condemn you if you have sex outside of marriage! Maybe he ADMIRES their hypocrisy? I mean like attracts like. (Not that I’m suggesting that the thrice-divorced guy who brought illegal Viagra on a trip to a Dominican Boys tour is a Pedophile or anything…) But these guys have to be down in “Muslims on 9/12/2001” territory!
So let me use this idiot’s “logic” and turn it around. He thinks the left just wants to tear down the church. (“Any institution that not for big government.”) Personally? I’ve always believed that the Church needed be at least taken down at least a peg or two, and that’s from LONG before this story started to break, all those years ago. But I think that what’s more clear here is this:
There is no amount of EXCESS that the Right won’t TOLERATE or EXCUSE, so long as it’s committed by a Religious person or institution or by a Corporation. As long as it’s in the name of God or Profit, no sin, including PEDO-FUCKING-PHILIA is too great for the Right to forgive...
...So just don’t try to hold the Church or Corporate America ACCOUNTABLE for their sins. That’s leftist! That’s Liberal! That’s EVIL apparently.
You know what? By now it should be clear that I’m hardly a religious man, but every Priest who molested a child or otherwise broke their “holy” vow should go to hell. Every Bishop and every Pope that covered for them should go to hell. And I’m sure there a special fire in hell, being stoked by Satan himself with his DICK, for the likes of Bill Donohue and Rush Limbaugh.
Last week, Bill Donohue – that great defender of Catholicism that the Vatican goes out of their way to disassociate themselves with – comes out and blames the preponderance of pedophile priests on “liberals” who let “gays” in to the church.
That’s the ROMAN CATHOLIC church, now. That great bastion of liberalism that doesn’t allow women to lead mass, that doesn’t allow even contraception, let alone abortion, that doesn’t marry gays, that says they will all go to hell… THAT Roman Catholic Church. The very idea that these guys, as an organization, are liberal AT ALL is laughable on its face to anyone not already brainwashed by the ultra-loony 1930’s era Tent-Revivalism, or Evangelical Funny-Mentalism as I call it, that's infected so much of America over the past 30 years.
Second, it is patently absurd to call a male pedophile “gay” simply because he molests boys. Would this then be a heterosexual issue if he molested girls? Because many did you know! As I understand it, there’s about an 80-20 split. So if there are thousands of male victims, that leaves hundreds of female ones! Pedophilia is pedophilia and homosexuality is homosexuality. Is is no more than religiously motivated superstition and/or politically motivated bigotry to even attempt to link them. A homosexual man is no more likely to like boys than a heterosexual man and a pedophile is no more likely to be homosexual than the general population is. Period. That’s a FACT and you can look it up in any work NOT written by a right-wing bigot under the guise of religious conservatism.
Bill? The problem is neither gays, nor liberals. It's the CURCH and the CLERGY and (now, so it appears) the POPE. It’s their problem, pure and simple. It’s been going on since blacks and white still couldn’t marry and same-sex marriage wasn’t even on anyone’s wildest possible political radar. They had their chance to do the right thing, and instead they did the Right thing. And if you’re still covering for them, then you’re as guilty as they are!
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Which brings me to THIS PIECE by Rush Limbaugh, who thinks that the Left is trying to take down the church, as they want to tear down “all institutions that aren’t for big government.” First of all? The church doesn’t give a shit about the size of the government. Why should they? They don’t pay taxes! They lean Republican for two reason: Gays and Abortion. Or really one reason: The Republicans shamelessly pander to them, despite the Constitution’s prohibition of them doing so.
It does make me wonder though, why Rush is picking THIS ISSUE to politicize. I mean… am I going MAD, or is he literally DEFENDING pedophiles here?! Can anyone think of a LESS sympathetic group of people to give the benefit of the doubt to, to sympathize with, and defend against that cruel “left-wing media” than fucking PEDOPHILES?! Pedophiles, BTW, who won’t marry you if you cohabitate – learned THAT the hard way – and who will condemn you if you have sex outside of marriage! Maybe he ADMIRES their hypocrisy? I mean like attracts like. (Not that I’m suggesting that the thrice-divorced guy who brought illegal Viagra on a trip to a Dominican Boys tour is a Pedophile or anything…) But these guys have to be down in “Muslims on 9/12/2001” territory!
So let me use this idiot’s “logic” and turn it around. He thinks the left just wants to tear down the church. (“Any institution that not for big government.”) Personally? I’ve always believed that the Church needed be at least taken down at least a peg or two, and that’s from LONG before this story started to break, all those years ago. But I think that what’s more clear here is this:
There is no amount of EXCESS that the Right won’t TOLERATE or EXCUSE, so long as it’s committed by a Religious person or institution or by a Corporation. As long as it’s in the name of God or Profit, no sin, including PEDO-FUCKING-PHILIA is too great for the Right to forgive...
...So just don’t try to hold the Church or Corporate America ACCOUNTABLE for their sins. That’s leftist! That’s Liberal! That’s EVIL apparently.
You know what? By now it should be clear that I’m hardly a religious man, but every Priest who molested a child or otherwise broke their “holy” vow should go to hell. Every Bishop and every Pope that covered for them should go to hell. And I’m sure there a special fire in hell, being stoked by Satan himself with his DICK, for the likes of Bill Donohue and Rush Limbaugh.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Some stuff that I want to spout off about... LOL
Reader Jonny Macartney gave me a great quote yeatserday, attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
"It's better to be ignorant than misinformed."
Well now, in Texas, it's possible to be both. And these people call OBAMA a fascist?! (Well, I guess when you re-write history, anything's possible!) It's unbelievable. If you have to go THAT FAR to INDOCTRINATE CHILDREN into you ideology, at what point does it become easier to just admit YOU'RE WRONG?! RELIGION doesn't even take indoctrination this far!
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Speaking of which...Here's one for Steve: The Devil is in the Vatican, according to chief Exorcist.
Dude, it's MADNESS. MADNESS, I say! And this ins't some wierd sect or cult, it's the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. The single largest Christian denomonation IN THE WORLD. Are people responsible for their own shortcomings? Nah. It's the DEVIL. And of course it's GOD that's responsible for all GOOD. B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T. PEOPLE should be held accountable for their fuck-ups and PEOPLE deserve CREDIT when they do good things!
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Paul Krugman should be the Fed Chairman. Or head of the SEC. Or treasury Secretary. Or just run our WHOLE DAMNED ECONOMY. But what does HE KNOW, right? While Libertarians were busy bringing about the biggest economic meltdown since Herbert Hoover all THIS pinko liberal did was win the NOBEL PRIZE in economics.
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Here's a sexty one from SLATE. And I think it typifies their Conservtaive bias, or at least their tendency to fall into the trap of framing issues from a conseravtive POV. Here's what I mean...
from SLATE:
Umm, sorry... WHY would we need NEW LAWS to protect people from BLACKMAIL and RAPE?! Especially when the rape was coerced by the blackmail, and largely perpetrated on MINORS?! Last time I checked that kind of behavior carried some of the strictest penalties allowed for non-lethal crimes! What the hell are they TALKING ABOUT?! In the words of my good friend, Jules Winfield: It's aint in the same ballpark. It ain't in the same league. It ain't even the same fucking SPORT!
Should sexting be a felony? NO, morons.
Should blackmailing minors into letting you rape them be illegal? Um... YES, but it already, most profoundly, IS, morons.
Is sending someone a naked picture of your 16 year old ex-girlfriend a crime? Arguably, but it falls under "general harrassment." Is it a SEX CRIME? NO. FUCKING. WAY. Is is CHILD PORNOGRAPHY? In the words of Gorobei Katayama: Are you kidding me?
The difference between sexting and kiddie-porn is the same as the difference between 16 and 6. I'm not saying that a victim doesn't have some right to redress, but, OTOH: You GAVE the other person the picture. It's THEIRS NOW. They can do anything they want with it, unless they're making money, and then you're just entitled to your cut.
EDUCTAION, not CRIMINALIZATION is what's needed here. There is a very easy way to not have your naked ass posted all over the internet: DON'T SEND SOMEONE YOUR NAKED PICTURE. It's pretty easy actually. I'm 37 years old and the olny picture of me naked, ANYWHERE was taken in 1976, when I was three and sitting in the tub. Oh... and maybe another one from about a year later of me taking a leak behind a tree in our back yard.
The other real answer here is that we need to stop being so hung up on nudity and teenaged sexuality. Someone see you naked? Guess what? Despite what you might have been told, it's NOT THE END OF THE WORLD. Embarassing? Sure. But you DID distribute naked pictures of yourself, so...
I'm sorry. While I'm not a nudist/naturist myself, I've read a lot of their literature and I'm convinced that they've got it right when it comes to the human body. Our hangups are largely societally conditioned. I'm strongly convinced of that.
But EDUCATION. Give people the infomration they need, and let them make their own choices. Good or bad, there's no reason AT ALL to be talking about jail-time and sex offender lists! Civil suits, for invasion of privacy or harrassment maybe. And you'd have a pretty steep burden of proof even then.
"It's better to be ignorant than misinformed."
Well now, in Texas, it's possible to be both. And these people call OBAMA a fascist?! (Well, I guess when you re-write history, anything's possible!) It's unbelievable. If you have to go THAT FAR to INDOCTRINATE CHILDREN into you ideology, at what point does it become easier to just admit YOU'RE WRONG?! RELIGION doesn't even take indoctrination this far!
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Speaking of which...Here's one for Steve: The Devil is in the Vatican, according to chief Exorcist.
Dude, it's MADNESS. MADNESS, I say! And this ins't some wierd sect or cult, it's the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. The single largest Christian denomonation IN THE WORLD. Are people responsible for their own shortcomings? Nah. It's the DEVIL. And of course it's GOD that's responsible for all GOOD. B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T. PEOPLE should be held accountable for their fuck-ups and PEOPLE deserve CREDIT when they do good things!
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Paul Krugman should be the Fed Chairman. Or head of the SEC. Or treasury Secretary. Or just run our WHOLE DAMNED ECONOMY. But what does HE KNOW, right? While Libertarians were busy bringing about the biggest economic meltdown since Herbert Hoover all THIS pinko liberal did was win the NOBEL PRIZE in economics.
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Here's a sexty one from SLATE. And I think it typifies their Conservtaive bias, or at least their tendency to fall into the trap of framing issues from a conseravtive POV. Here's what I mean...
from SLATE:
A teenager in Wisconsin named Anthony Stancl set up a fake Facebook profile, pretending to be a girl. Seventeen or 18 at the time, Stancl used the profile to lure 30 of the boys he went to high school with to send him nude pictures or videos of themselves. Then Stancl threatened to post the material on the Internet unless they performed sex acts with him. Seven of them say they did—and that Stancl took pictures of them with his cell-phone camera.OK, the CRIME here... has NOTHING whatsoever to do with SEXTING! Since when are rape and blackmail not illegal? The sexting is completely IMMATERIAL to the crime being committed! They go on to give the following insane false-equivalency:
How can states draft laws that protect against Anthony Stancl without sweeping in more innocent behavior, like that of the students in Valparaiso?
Umm, sorry... WHY would we need NEW LAWS to protect people from BLACKMAIL and RAPE?! Especially when the rape was coerced by the blackmail, and largely perpetrated on MINORS?! Last time I checked that kind of behavior carried some of the strictest penalties allowed for non-lethal crimes! What the hell are they TALKING ABOUT?! In the words of my good friend, Jules Winfield: It's aint in the same ballpark. It ain't in the same league. It ain't even the same fucking SPORT!
Should sexting be a felony? NO, morons.
Should blackmailing minors into letting you rape them be illegal? Um... YES, but it already, most profoundly, IS, morons.
Is sending someone a naked picture of your 16 year old ex-girlfriend a crime? Arguably, but it falls under "general harrassment." Is it a SEX CRIME? NO. FUCKING. WAY. Is is CHILD PORNOGRAPHY? In the words of Gorobei Katayama: Are you kidding me?
The difference between sexting and kiddie-porn is the same as the difference between 16 and 6. I'm not saying that a victim doesn't have some right to redress, but, OTOH: You GAVE the other person the picture. It's THEIRS NOW. They can do anything they want with it, unless they're making money, and then you're just entitled to your cut.
EDUCTAION, not CRIMINALIZATION is what's needed here. There is a very easy way to not have your naked ass posted all over the internet: DON'T SEND SOMEONE YOUR NAKED PICTURE. It's pretty easy actually. I'm 37 years old and the olny picture of me naked, ANYWHERE was taken in 1976, when I was three and sitting in the tub. Oh... and maybe another one from about a year later of me taking a leak behind a tree in our back yard.
The other real answer here is that we need to stop being so hung up on nudity and teenaged sexuality. Someone see you naked? Guess what? Despite what you might have been told, it's NOT THE END OF THE WORLD. Embarassing? Sure. But you DID distribute naked pictures of yourself, so...
I'm sorry. While I'm not a nudist/naturist myself, I've read a lot of their literature and I'm convinced that they've got it right when it comes to the human body. Our hangups are largely societally conditioned. I'm strongly convinced of that.
But EDUCATION. Give people the infomration they need, and let them make their own choices. Good or bad, there's no reason AT ALL to be talking about jail-time and sex offender lists! Civil suits, for invasion of privacy or harrassment maybe. And you'd have a pretty steep burden of proof even then.
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