Scandalous
Found via RodentRegatta that LilacRose posts an opening paragraph that invites reflection:
And then of course, she decides that she is being sarcastic and points to an essay on Christian liberty.
But the point is, yeah, unless you exert some thought in what you read, you end up alienating yourself from the world in which you live. The original document had injunctions for a pastoral society living in an unforgiving land, and one in which social customs and institutions were far different from the ones we face.
Of course, some of the tenets are true, and on those we base our current, Western society values.
Behold this treasure of wisdom:
Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo is one of the most conservative priests from Colombia, having gone against all progressive reforms, absolutely pro'life to the point of rejecting the day-after pill, going against a law giving equal patrimonial property rights to homosexual couples, and having lead against the grassroots Christian communities (or comunidades de base, see this article) in the late 70's and beginning of the eighties, and was seen as a Church leader that conveniently forgot the plight of thousands of poor and displaced victims of the violence that racked Colombia in the last ten years.
Thus, it comes as no surprise that this reactionary right-winger compromised priest would endanger countless people just to defend his warped and antiquated views:
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The WHO has condemned the Vatican's views, saying: "These incorrect statements about condoms and HIV are dangerous when we are facing a global pandemic which has already killed more than 20 million people, and currently affects at least 42 million."
Nice going! Perhaps they could convince people not to fuck? Certainly the Church has been very successful at that.
These utterances are part of the alienation of the Catholic Church from the Catholics of the world: Corruption, scandals, political positions for the sake of it, and to top it all, dangerous and criminal advice.
As Antipixel was saying, they have to abolish the Catholic Church: no worries. If they keep it like that, the CC will simply disappear on its own.
Comments
As a person who attended Catholic school for 8 years, I have to say that I agree with this post 100%. Religion in general has to go! I consider myself a very spiritual person, but religion? I have no time for that. Priests and Nuns live a life where they can hideout from the sexual abuse most suffered as children. To suggest that people not have reproductive freedom is immoral to me. To suggest that gays are damaged goods, is insane to me. To suggest that people not use condoms and abstain from sex is just ludicrous.
Once again, Camilo, we see eye to eye.
Posted by: Liz | October 10, 2003 11:58 PM
The scary part is that this guy, Lopez Trujillo, has been in power for so long and managed to get by with his insolent and intransigent position, until finally getting the world's attention for committing such a blunder.
Yet people like him are everywhere: White House, anyone?
Posted by: Camilo | October 11, 2003 8:09 PM