Bishop: Homosexuality is of Satan

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Says Bishop Daniel Avila:

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The most recent and most comprehensive discussion of this research is found in a book published earlier this year by a scientist who also happens to be a gay-rights advocate. Even though it discounts other environmental factors that other scientists believe also may play a role, Simon LeVay's publication, "Gay, Straight and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Attraction" is worth the read.

LeVay is not interested in the "who" question and describes same-sex attraction as just a variation among other human inclinations. Catholics do not have the luxury of being materialists. We look for ultimate explanations that transcend the strictly physical world and that stretch beyond our limited ability to mold and reshape reality as we know it. Disruptive imbalances in nature that thwart encoded processes point to supernatural actors who, unlike God, do not have the good of persons at heart.

In other words, the scientific evidence of how same-sex attraction most likely may be created provides a credible basis for a spiritual explanation that indicts the devil. Any time natural disasters occur, we as people of faith look back to Scripture's account of those angels who rebelled and fell from grace. In their anger against God, these malcontents prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. They continue to do all they can to mar, distort and destroy God's handiwork.

Therefore, whenever natural causes disturb otherwise typical biological development, leading to the personally unchosen beginnings of same-sex attraction, the ultimate responsibility, on a theological level, is and should be imputed to the evil one, not God. Applying this aspect of Catholic belief to interpret the scientific data makes more sense because it does not place God in the awkward position of blessing two mutually incompatible realities -- sexual difference and same-sex attraction.

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[Scuba]

1. He say anything about pedophilia?

[Nostradammit]

2. Exactly.

[NMMNG]

3. He probably blames that on Satan too (or gays who are of Satan)

Everything good is of God, and all bad comes from human failings or Satan.

[MountainLaurel]

14. Now, now

According to the Vatican, the 60s were what caused those little molestation incidents, not Satan.

[closeupready]

12. That's not as serious a matter as consensual activities between adults.

:crazy: :sarcasm:

[marriageequality824]

15. They seem to conflate the two.

It shows a basic lack of understanding of the difference between a coercive act and a non-coercive act.

[MindandSoul]

4. If this were true. . .I would say that the Church is where Satan finds the most avid followers!

And this doesn't even talk abotu pedophilia among priests!

[dhill926]

5. this reads like...

gibberish to me. Hard to fathom this coming from an educated mind. Ah...but the bigotry......

[NMMNG]

7. Defense of bigotry usually is gibberish

:shrug:

[closeupready]

13. This organization mastered bureaucratic doublespeak centuries ago.

That's what this clown has been schooled in.

[Welibs]

6. And to Bishop Avila I say, the Catholic Church is a multi-national corporation

in the child sex trade! These men are in a position of trust and they violate the most vulnerable of their flock then get protection from the Vatican.

I'm sure their victims would agree that THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS OF SATAN! Not only do they perpetrate unspeakable offenses against children, the church fights them with threats, harassment and bullying through the trials. If the abused don't commit suicide they live with nightmares of the horrific crimes done to them for the rest of their lives.

The Catholic church should be forced out of business, made to pay back taxes and the Vatican turned into a medieval museum.

The church hierarchy has been corrupt for centuries. The only Pope that had any sense of reason, logic or rational was John Paul. This pope will be dead soon he's very old, let that immoral old bastard be the last one!

[qb]

8. The Satanists I've met have a much firmer grip on morality than this asshat.

[NMMNG]

9. I'd have to agree

:thumbsup:

[FreeState]

10. Homosexual: Bishop is of Satan n/t

[Zorra]

11. All these hypocrites are totally obsessed with sex.

A good roll in the hay (with an adult) every once in the while would do them a world of good.
:D

[marriageequality824]

16. Everything is of Satan it seems. Heard this kind of stuff before.

[Puglover]

17. Wow, the article has been removed.

And the asshat has an apology up. Someone got their little hands slapped I think.

[NMMNG]

18. What do you know?

I guess negative feedback does work some times. :shrug: