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posters are already on my banned list. It amazes me that they dont see that they are acting just like every group they condemn. Statements that all priests are pedophiles are in the same league to me as the nut-job who runs that 'we hate fags' outfit.
I said this in another post. I think the most rabid anti-Catholics here are people who had some very bad experience with another person, such as a parent or a teacher at a Catholic school, and project their rage for that onto the religion as a whole.
The woman who listed all of the evil things that Catholics do to women just floored me. I have to say right out that I don't give a rat's patootie abt the lack of women priests, although I think priests should be allowed to marry. But all the other stuff..the Church forcing women to stay in abusive relationships, women being excommunicated for being divorced, women being forced to have 12 kids..none of that resonates with my own experience. I came away from her post wondering is she had an abusive father whose mother would not leave him, certainly something that is far more rooted in the pathology that impacts abused spouses than it does in the Church. I also don't know anyone who would seek out the advice of a priest because of marital problems; they go to counselers.
Most faiths in this world are, whether people admit to it or not, are based on 'menu' selections. I had a 7 year work experience with co-workers of many ethnic backgrounds and religions. We put up a Christmas tree in our work area, altho we were a sectarian hospital, and the guys whose spent the most time decorating it were the Hindus!
We'd celebrate a hindu holiday called Diwali, the Feast Of Lights, where they would bring in all sorts of exotic sweets for everyone. If a guy who was Jewish won the weekly football pool, he would buy breakfast the next day, and would usually buy bagels. If it was a Hindu, he'd bring in samosas and a few bagels on the side since some of the folks didn't like samosas at 9AM. We would have an office lunch before Thanksgiving where people would bring in food related to their ethnic background. One year, we even tried to buy a halal turkey (the kosher equivalent for Muslims) but a series of events led to the lack of arrival of said bird.Some of the Hindus would only eat vegetables. Some would eat meat and ask that no one ever mention that to their wives. One of two of the Muslims would have an alcoholic beverage. We had at least 2 gay men whom everyone liked. We had a guy who was like the 20th son of a tribal king in Africa, whose meal contributions were always a bit scary since he cooked them himself. (The Irish American guy had the sense to get his ancient aunt to manke Irish soda bread for him to bring in.) If people ever made reference to a Supreme Being, they all used the word 'God' which to them, as it is to me,was a generic word in many contexts. (I don't know if we had any atheists.) I have a painting on a scroll of some Muslim holy person that one of the guys gave me after coming back from a trip back home. I have a Hindu painting from another one of them. Our differences made us appreciate each other more, rather than divide us, because we realized our commonalities were much greater. I was just shocked by the vitriol on this board, even if it comes from a small amount of rabid people. And people then wonder why the Democratic Party has cohesiveness issues. The notion of live and let live needs a long ways to go, it seems.
Sorry..just late night rambling..
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