http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8588294.stm
It is surely time the Church examined the wisdom and practicability of celibacy.
It would appear that such excessive professions of worldly sacrifice only leads to hypocrisy, repression, suppression and then, eventually, exposure and disgrace.
The long and short of it is that the Church will now go into decline.
After all, who in his right mind now would become a Catholic priest?
Islam will fill the vacuum, I suppose.
THE VOICE OF REASON Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
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Friday, 26 March 2010
Sunday, 29 November 2009
The failure of Catholicism: time to look at another religion that does not require celibate priests?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/26/ireland-church-sex-abuse
When I was a naughty, disobedient, rude little girl living in a different country, I was told I should watch myself or else I would be sent to a home.
If I was ungrateful to my parents I would soon learn the fate of those who had no parents to be ungrateful to.
Of course, I did not know until now what exactly was meant by this.
I am not therefore very surprised that sadists and paedophiles would go to where the pickings and victims would be most plentiful and vulnerable - in care homes and orphanages. That is what I would do too, if I were a sadist and paedophile.
The Irish may now wish to examine a different religion other than one that demands celibacy from a corrupt priesthood.
Islam is a religion that does not give a special status to those who claim they have given up sex. It is a practical, worldly religion that enjoins its adherents to go forth and multiply within wedlock, amongst other things.
At such a low point of Christianity, it surely behoves a government to examine the uses of religion and what it might do for the state in terms of assisting citizens to be better people. If something tried and tested, such as Catholicism, is now broken in reputation and beyond repair, then it is time to look at a different religion.
(Of course, I do not expect the cowardly, hypocritical and demented UK political establishment to be doing anything of the sort. They will see it as their bounden duty not to discuss anything controversial to avoid the deadly sin of offending anyone at all. There is a general election coming up and their strategy will be not to do anything other than make promises to us that they are incapable of keeping.)
Islam, it has been said, is the middle way between capitalism and socialism, between feminism and female oppression.
It would certainly help if more people would read the Koran, but most will not, out of militant atheistical pride, sloth and simple swine-like unquestioning contentment with their lot.
When I was a naughty, disobedient, rude little girl living in a different country, I was told I should watch myself or else I would be sent to a home.
If I was ungrateful to my parents I would soon learn the fate of those who had no parents to be ungrateful to.
Of course, I did not know until now what exactly was meant by this.
I am not therefore very surprised that sadists and paedophiles would go to where the pickings and victims would be most plentiful and vulnerable - in care homes and orphanages. That is what I would do too, if I were a sadist and paedophile.
The Irish may now wish to examine a different religion other than one that demands celibacy from a corrupt priesthood.
Islam is a religion that does not give a special status to those who claim they have given up sex. It is a practical, worldly religion that enjoins its adherents to go forth and multiply within wedlock, amongst other things.
At such a low point of Christianity, it surely behoves a government to examine the uses of religion and what it might do for the state in terms of assisting citizens to be better people. If something tried and tested, such as Catholicism, is now broken in reputation and beyond repair, then it is time to look at a different religion.
(Of course, I do not expect the cowardly, hypocritical and demented UK political establishment to be doing anything of the sort. They will see it as their bounden duty not to discuss anything controversial to avoid the deadly sin of offending anyone at all. There is a general election coming up and their strategy will be not to do anything other than make promises to us that they are incapable of keeping.)
Islam, it has been said, is the middle way between capitalism and socialism, between feminism and female oppression.
It would certainly help if more people would read the Koran, but most will not, out of militant atheistical pride, sloth and simple swine-like unquestioning contentment with their lot.
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