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Okay ... seriously.
16 years ago
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/a.....rss_topstories
i'm going to quote a facebook note i wrote and a comment i made on another journal.
If you don't care to copy/paste, the short of it is that a Brazilian man raped his 9-year-old stepdaughter. The mother, probably trying to go with health and safety-of-her-daughter reasons, gets the girl an abortion. And now the mother and doctor who administered the abortion have been excommunicated from the Catholic Church just because of something that was more than likely a necessary evil.
What's worse is that the STEPFATHER was not excommunicated for his heinous crime of rape. How is rape less heinous than the act of abortion?
With Pope Benedict XVI allowing a bishop who denies the Holocaust back into the Church and continuing the ignorant view that gender roles can't change, i'm starting to see myself lapsing from my RELIGION, not my faith. i still believe everything in the Nicene Creed; i still believe in many things that make a Catholic a Catholic. But with the crap that's been going on, i don't see it as sacrilege to ask my religious leaders to stop being such dumbasses.
For god's sakes, she's 9 years old. No child that age is capable of healthily bearing and birthing a child. If i hear any more of this bullshit, i'm officially renouncing my religion.
In fact, i'll go so far as to say this:
Religion does not require faith.
Faith does not require religion.
People think they have to defend the integrity of their faith these days, when really all they're doing is trying to hold up religion. They're doing the same thing with marriage - defending the image instead of the purpose.
It's no wonder people are leaving organized religion. They wised up! The only reasons i can hold onto Catholicism are the numerous number of rites and the music that has been historically produced for the liturgies and prayers. i'm a member of the Knights of Columbus and i can't publicly voice my dissent anywhere but Facebook because of people who think President Obama (while i agree not the BEST president) is the fucking ANTICHRIST!! It's more like "he's a n***** president," seeing as i'm stuck in south Texas. The leaders we see in headlines aren't the only ignorant jerks in religion.
And finally - yes, i'm anti-abortion. However, i see it as a necessary act when the mother is nowhere near capable of bearing a child or if the child doesn't have a chance at surviving past day 1 (and that's more like "his brain only developed in the pain-sensing region" kind of issue). That and only OB-GYNs would be allowed to prescribe abortions because that kind of procedure is extremely suspect to infection problems.
i'm going to quote a facebook note i wrote and a comment i made on another journal.
If you don't care to copy/paste, the short of it is that a Brazilian man raped his 9-year-old stepdaughter. The mother, probably trying to go with health and safety-of-her-daughter reasons, gets the girl an abortion. And now the mother and doctor who administered the abortion have been excommunicated from the Catholic Church just because of something that was more than likely a necessary evil.
What's worse is that the STEPFATHER was not excommunicated for his heinous crime of rape. How is rape less heinous than the act of abortion?
With Pope Benedict XVI allowing a bishop who denies the Holocaust back into the Church and continuing the ignorant view that gender roles can't change, i'm starting to see myself lapsing from my RELIGION, not my faith. i still believe everything in the Nicene Creed; i still believe in many things that make a Catholic a Catholic. But with the crap that's been going on, i don't see it as sacrilege to ask my religious leaders to stop being such dumbasses.
For god's sakes, she's 9 years old. No child that age is capable of healthily bearing and birthing a child. If i hear any more of this bullshit, i'm officially renouncing my religion.
In fact, i'll go so far as to say this:
Religion does not require faith.
Faith does not require religion.
People think they have to defend the integrity of their faith these days, when really all they're doing is trying to hold up religion. They're doing the same thing with marriage - defending the image instead of the purpose.
It's no wonder people are leaving organized religion. They wised up! The only reasons i can hold onto Catholicism are the numerous number of rites and the music that has been historically produced for the liturgies and prayers. i'm a member of the Knights of Columbus and i can't publicly voice my dissent anywhere but Facebook because of people who think President Obama (while i agree not the BEST president) is the fucking ANTICHRIST!! It's more like "he's a n***** president," seeing as i'm stuck in south Texas. The leaders we see in headlines aren't the only ignorant jerks in religion.
And finally - yes, i'm anti-abortion. However, i see it as a necessary act when the mother is nowhere near capable of bearing a child or if the child doesn't have a chance at surviving past day 1 (and that's more like "his brain only developed in the pain-sensing region" kind of issue). That and only OB-GYNs would be allowed to prescribe abortions because that kind of procedure is extremely suspect to infection problems.
