One
of my teen nieces, Casper, had need to travel to Washington DC last week. As good fortune
would have it, I happened to have some unused (and unlikely-to-be-used) passes
for the city's suburban mass-transit system; she made use of them, and saved
herself some shekels.
There
are several hub stations one is likely to pass through when mass-transiting
into and out of the immediate DC environs, and Casper was one of many thousands
of people who transferred from rails to bus at one of these, Shady Grove MD,
that day. (Been through there a number of times myself, of course, over the
years… and still prefer the hubs in Köln and Luxemburg.)
The
next day, I happened to be available to take her to school, since she doesn't
drive yet, and she and her family conveniently live not too terribly away from
me. She wanted to read me something from a sheet of paper some urgent person
had pressed on her there at Shady Grove; and she warned me I might be offended
to hear what it said. Naah, I told her, I don't offend easily. Embarrass, yes.
Instead,
though, Cas told me what the sheet was about: someone protesting the very real,
very painful issue of pedophile priests. No, I was not offended; of course not
– I hope to be a priest someday myself, or at the very least a member of an
avowed-religious community. Let me tell you that my blood grows chill, in fact,
at stories of children abused in any way, most especially in so vulnerable a
way, and at the hands of a trusted person (relative, teacher, coach, clergy,
and so on). I remember once, some years ago, breaking down in tears when I saw
hidden-camera footage of a baby being beaten by her trusted caregiver.
Back
to the sheet Cas had. I asked her to let me have it, and she did, and I read it
– and brother, is it a horrid mess of vicious, anti-Catholic hatred. I've seen
(and heard) the like before over the years, although this particular piece of
vitriolic invective is especially insidious in its using the genuine, ongoing
suffering of abused children to further the writer's contempt for the Catholic
Church… at the wounded children's expense.
My
blog is a tiny mosaic-tile of cobblestone-block in the marketplace of ideas; I
encourage the free exchange of opinion and experience here… although MT2mb is not
a democracy, and I myself choose what to post, a nd what comments to
accept/publicize. In the interest of airing out something particularly,
repugnantly putrid, I'm going to go right ahead and put that fellow's screed up
here. (NB: by "something… putrid", I'm speaking specifically of that
piece of malicious filth he (or one of his associates) was handing out
(including to our little Casper), much more so than of the heart-wrenching
abuse, its aftereffects, and the inexcusable (even arrogant), cold stupidity of
some Church officials who sought to hide and/or bury the issue.
However:
I will follow up this excrement with several days of tearing it apart, piece by
piece – not overlooking or downplaying the genuine suffering
experienced by too many children in the Church. I'm leaving out only seven
website URLs he added in the margins, but am including – extremely
out of keeping in this forum – the author's real name, as given on the sheet.
You're welcome to google up the fellow and his garbage yourself – and please
make sure you follow it up with reviewing counterpoints and counterarguments as
well.
Following
is the full text of that pernicious, pestilential broadside. Noses pinched
shut? Good; here it is – I include all misspellings, inconsistent
capitalization and punctuation, etc., and will address his last item – slavery
– first tomorrow:
to
the victims of the roman catholic PLAGUE
john wojnowski
Moral Imbecility and the Vatican
There
is a simple explanation as to why it took the popes in Rome two hundred years
to admit that Galileo was right and indeed it is the earth that goes around the
sun. Ignorance and cowardice.
Ignorance
and cowardice also explains why the know-it-all original bigots and the
inventors of anti-Semitism needed over a century to concede that Darwin was also
right and evolution is indeed a fact.
It may
not be immediately obvious but ignorance and cowardice also keep the arrogant
and childishly delusional Roman Catholic Church from discarding the
strange medieval folly of the bizarre notion of priestly "celibacy".
Mother
Nature is not insulted with impunity. Trapped by delusion or cowardice in a
system that abhors independent thinking and rewards servility, the Catholic
priestood's unfortunate reality is moral eunuchood, the price to be paid for
accepting a culture of hypocrisy and shame.
Healthy
individuals with integrity cannot stomach the stench of hypocrisy and leave the
priesthood.
In a
culture of shame a robust moral eunuchood is the ticket for a career in the
Catholic hierarchy.
Easy
proof and evidence: in 2002 then cardinal Ratzinger, in one elaborate and
authoritative sounding whopper, a criminally ignorant or criminally mendacious
statement, one brazen big lie that would have made Joseph
Goebbels proud, claimed that less than one percent of Catholic
priests sexually molest children!
Whoever
cares enough to investigate can easily find out the tragic truth. Despite the
secrecy, the stonewalling and the nature of the crime that prevents the great
majority of the victims from coming forward and telling, the figure of eleven
percent is closer to the number of priests who were caught. That is ONLY
THE PRIESTS WHO WERE EXPOSED!
Prior
to 2002 the Vatican was actually complaining that prison was too harsh a
penalty for pedophiles!
To
pacify public opinion, the Catholic Church in 2002 finally conceded that
abusing children sexually is a crime but it is very evident that the Vatican
hierarchy, in its stunted and ignorant inner core, trapped by moral imbecility
in moral darkness, still does not grasp the essence of the problem.
While
making excuses and a big show of addressing the scandal, even defrocking sick
individuals, not only are the protectors, the enablers, the criminal drivers of
get-away cars rewarded and promoted but the victims are re-victimized and
insulted.
My
personal experience does not reflect well on the Catholic Church.
Common
sense suggests that the Vatican's waging a vicious, dastardly & vile beyond
any standard All boundaries of human
decency, now ten years long campaign, PURE EVIL, against a lone, crippled,
innocent victim crying for justice, could not just be the madness of
some obscure, pathological country priest hiding in some Italian village.
It may
be prudent for Pope Benedict XVI to do the right thing and retire the
responsible sanctimonious degenerate, this COWARD and sadist, with the
abhorrent morals of a Dr Joseph Mengele, before the psychopath provokes a
scandal.
clue? WHO could be the creep? Indeed the
identity of this MORAL MONSTER, disgusting human being and
ranking sociopath may forever remain a mystery safely hidding in the secret
Vatican archives, but most of his accomplices can be easily recognized. [image of a
priest's collar]
These
ten years are evidence of the moral malignancy of cowardly hypocrites, stunted
provincial minds trapped in a parasitic institution where a Dark Ages
lunacy, the half-baked scheme of clerical celibacy, is called a
"GIFT" and the Church's "brilliant jewel"!
clue?
The creep may also share Goebbles and Mengele's first name.
The Vatican Hierarchy *
A Comedy of Hypocrisy
A mafia
of careerists, with dreams of world domination, overtaken by History, rife with
scandals, preying on the credulous "faithful", the Catholic
hierarchy, a relict from an era of ignorance and despotism, is a crude and
deluded parasite looking for ways to perpetuate the illusion of
Humanity's weird nightmare.
The
"faithful": dim, gullible, vulnerable Humanity, the unfortunate
individuals brain-washed in infancy, the terminally naive, the ignorant &
the retarded.
* (Trapped in a vicious circle that is dependent on a large but
obviously less than brilliant recruitment pool, we now find, leading &
defending the Vatican's financial empire, the intellectually limited and the
morally bankrupt.)
… work in progress …
The
Catholic hierarchy, this mafia of narrow-minded careerists, stunted lives,
contemptible hypocrites trapped in a parasitic institution, has only itself to
blame for all the scandals that plague its troubled existence.
Relying
on Humanity's ignorance for its survival, facing progress, the Catholic Church
inevitably finds itself ALWAYS on the wrong side of History.
Progress-haters of necessity always fighting
Humanity's advances, basic milestones come to mind, how the Magna Carta was
attacked, how the printing press was cursed by the then Pope as the
"devil's invention", how Democracy was vilified, and how even slavery
was justified as a God willed natural condition!
These
are legitimate concerns about the competence of individuals who confront the
problems of life mumbling "Rosaries".
What is
troubling, and the "Founding Fathers" must be spinning in their
graves, is the fact of the five Roman Catholic Justices ready to drop on their
knees to kiss the hand of pope Benedict XVI, a confirmed liar & pedophile's
protector, a sanctimonious charlatan product of a culture of ignorance,
hypocrisy, cowardice & delusion claiming to be the supreme moral authority
in the whole universe, are sitting on the Supreme Court of the Land.
[inserted and referenced at "how… slavery was justified":]
Slavery
"Slavery itself, considered as such in its essential nature,
is not at all contrary to the natural and divine law, and there can be several
just titles of slavery and these are referred to by approved theologians and
commentators of the sacred canons… It is not contrary to the natural and divine
law for a slave to be sold, bought, exchanged or given".
Pius IX
(Instruction 20 June 1866 AD). J. F. MAXWELL, 'The Development of
Catholic Doctrine Concerning Slavery', World Jurist 11 (1969-70) pp.
306-307..
Folks,
please don't be stupid by concluding that everything he says must be true
because it's scandalous, okay? That's playing right into his hands, if you'll
pardon the expression.
See
this space tomorrow.
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