The root cause
Another high up Catholic dude explains that women are really irritating, so irritating that sometimes men are forced to beat the shit out of them.
Braulio Rodriguez, who is the Archbishop of Toledo, spoke to his congregation about relationships at a sermon held in Toledo Cathedral on 27 December, and his comments were later written up in the Our Father parish bulletin.
He criticised ‘false marriages’ and ‘quickie divorces’, and said that the root cause of domestic violence was a woman’s ‘disobedience’ to her husband.
Oh yes? So if I go to Spain and make my way to Toledo and track down the archbishop and tell him to do something, I can hit him with a baseball bat when he refuses?
The comments were met with anger by thousands across Spain and protests were held across Madrid.
Rodriguez was accused of having ‘medieval views’ and ‘inciting violence’.
One woman said he ‘should be locked up’.
Last year, 56 women were killed in Spain because of domestic violence.
Tell the archbishop something he actually cares about.
That’s nothing to how irritating Archbishop Rodriguez is; in fact, if I ever met him I don‘t know what I might be forced to do!!
At least his statement caused an outcry. But I do wonder if he realises by his logic I can take a 2×4 to him? Of course not. Men don’t have obey or be submissive.
Men have to obey and be submissive to God. Women have to obey and be submissive to men. Which is, of course, nonsense.
@3: well you see women aren’t important enough to have direct dealings with doG, only men can do that. Therefore women have husbands who stand in loco dei and they have to obey them thus indirectly obeying doG too! It’s very complicated; you have to have a conservative religious upbringing to understand it.
Perhaps we could explain to him that all women represent the Goddess, and to lay hands on them is sacrilege. That would have the advantage of being a seriously held religious belief, and above criticism.
Sailor1031 – I had a very conservative religious upbringing (fundamentalist), and I still don’t really understand it. I was brought up that way; it just never quite took.
never took with me either. I wonder if atheists are born not made after all.
#5
But not christianity, which means the response will be something that boils down to you believe in things that aren’t real lollll!
@ 3 & 4: “He for God alone, She for God in him.”
sailor1031, @ 7
Agreed. Although I was educated at a Christian Grammar School (private high school) I can’t remember as an adult ever believing in the supernatural, I just don’t ‘get’ religion. My father lived and died as an atheist, perhaps it’s genetic.
‘Born atheists’ are probably in the minority. Many people are ‘apatheists’ ie religion plays no part in their lives until they experience some crisis.