Bishops Aren’t What They Used to Be
Just in case we ever go thinking the Southern Baptists or the redemptionists or the other protestant flame-throwers have a monopoly on being as disgusting as they can possibly manage to be – here’s the bishop of Rockford.
We know, for instance, that adherents of one political party would place us squarely on the road to suicide as a people. The seven “sacraments” of their secular culture are abortion, buggery, contraception, divorce, euthanasia, feminism of the radical type, and genetic experimentation and mutilation. These things they unabashedly espouse, profess and promote. Their continuance in public office is a clear and present danger to our survival as a nation.
Well if they would place us squarely on the road to suicide as a people it sounds more as if their continuance in existence is a clear and present danger to everyone and everything. In other words – the bishop is playing with some dangerous language there. Lynch mob language.
The toleration of sexual perversions among inverts, widespread contraception, easy access to “no fault” divorce, the killing of the elderly, radical feminism, embryonic stem cell research — all of these things defile and debase our human nature and our human destiny.
Radical feminism defiles and debases our human nature and our human destiny – while guys like the bishop purify and elevate it, I suppose. No, I think not.
Thanks to George Scialabba for sending me a link to the bishop’s gentle musings.
George reminds me that I ought to have mentioned our engagement. Fair point. You know I favour the impersonal note, but there is a limit. George got his first look at B&W recently, and naturally his first thought was to say let’s get hitched, and naturally I said why not old bean.
Well, thank God that Bishop is here to protect us from the Party of Death, yessiree. We can go back to the old Catholic way of handling unwanted children, as was practiced in Ireland; starve, smother, or just bury the little brat alive in the backyard. Because God knows you didn’t want to get caught with a little bastard; the Church frowned on that even more than it frowned on birth control!
So much for any hope that the Catholic church would be a moderating influence of the religious right. Oh, and the Jesuit who made a stand for evolution has just been fired:
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=45994
Yeah. I heard the Pope is having a meeting this week to decide whether to move the Churchs’ official position away from evolution and toward ‘intelligent design’.
As the Pope is supposed to be infallible, does this mean that for the few years they accepted evolution then evolution really occurred, but once they go back to creationism, it doesn’t happen anymore? Seems confusing.
‘I do not think that we should spend a great deal of time in lamentation over the children whose lives have been snuffed out by the barbaric practice of therapeutic abortion. They passed from their lives quickly in this world and have gone into the hands of the Lord of Life and Mercy for all eternity.’
The bishop slid over that one quickly. As far as I am aware permanent limbo is still the fate for the unbaptised. It has been de-emphasised but, although touched upon in Evangelium Vitae, never rescinded.
I gather they are still working on this one, but seem to have come up with nothing better than a generalised hope that god will give them a break, but hurry to the font in case he doesn’t.
http://overkott.dyndns.org/ccc-search.htm
And, what happens to all the spontaneous abortions, which have always outnumbered live births?
They NEVER answer that one, I wonder why?
I, for one, am glad he laid the blame on the ‘secularists’ instead of ‘relativists’. It’s long past time for them to get specific about who the real enemy is.
This guy is off the tracks with beef against “easy access to “no fault” divorce”. As someone married by an Elvis impersonator in Vegas, I’m upset that he left out “easy access to frivolous marriage ceremonies” in his rant. Or was he including such things in his “perverts marriage” comment at the end?
No, I think that falls under the radical feminism portion of the rant.
1. OK, seriously, where does this guy get his authority? I mean, other than the authority that comes with the collar. Does he at least have a PhD in something? (Wait, I don’t think I want to know the answer.)
2. Didja notice on the web page all the “Your Ad Here” boxes? It’s creepy – like he’s waging a two-front war: one for ad revenue, and another against secularists. Do you think that if he wins one war he’ll give up on the other?
Surely the authority that comes with the collar is absolutely all that’s required, isn’t it? Which is one reason theocracy is so repulsive. There’s no barrier to just making stuff up.
The trick is to get enough people to agree with your made up stuff so as to be thought of as a wise, spiritual person rather than a loon.
So if you hear strange voices urging you to do something, it’s much better for you career wise to join a group where they believe you and the voices in your head are considered messages from God, rather than ending up in a padded cell babbling incoherently to yourself.
St. Paul, for example..
St. Paul…John Smith…David Koresh…a happy bunch, no?
“The trick is to get enough people to agree with your made up stuff so as to be thought of as a wise, spiritual person rather than a loon.” I don’t think that is enough. People who agree with you is all well and good, but if they don’t fear eternal damnation, oblivion and/or hell-fire, no one will stick around.
Once you have that going for you, you’ll “be thought of as a wise, spitiual person”, and you just might get rich, too!
Oh, god, both Ian Bs posting right next to each other – oh, the room is going round and round…
[thud]
Sorry. The chances of something like that happening must have been, oh, 5- maybe even 6- to-1.
But what are the odds it would happen twice?
How the hell can something debase and defile human destiny, since at any point in time we don’t know what our destiny is, and it will, anyway, be determined by whatever we do today? You flossofers have a word for this type of ‘argument’, I’m sure.
Off topic of the eeeeevil ranting christian theocrats, there is an article on the threads of US christianity and their various political worldviews in Foreign Affairs, also on the web here: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/08/gods_country.html
Congratulations!
Thenk you.