Posted on 10/21/2007 1:21:12 AM PDT by managusta
As a convert from the Piskies to the Catholics, I can assure you that plenty of people on FR have blamed Catholic theology or discipline for the homosexual priests molesting the adolescent boys. This has not been confined to threads dealing with some aspect of the fallout from that situation. Pretty frequently, when there's any kind of thread about the Catholic Church, some drive-by snarker chimes in with, "Yeah, child molesters. Wouldn't happen if they allowed priests to marry." and unloads all his or her hostility to the Church onto the thread.
That routine has just gotten as old and tired as "hughly series" or "Bush's fault!", so when this thread came up a rejoinder of "Sez you!" seemed pretty natural to most of us.
You were just unfortunately standing in the line of fire at the time. If you weren't one of the aforesaid snarkers in the past (nobody is keeping a list), please accept my profound apologies on behalf of my annoyed brethren.
Your comments say a great deal more about you than anyone you are criticizing. Good evening.
“Your comments say a great deal more about you than anyone you are criticizing. Good evening.”
Good or bad?
“I can assure you that plenty of people on FR have blamed Catholic theology or discipline for the homosexual priests molesting the adolescent boys”
Well, my point is that to condemn all Protestants as if they all had that ignorant belief is well, bizarre.
It is accepted by many Catholics on this thread that somehow all Protestants are against their creed, and somehow revel in it’s misfortune. That’s just as ignorant a someone who blames Catholicism for gayness.
Fortunately, this Protestant can see stupid Catholics just as clearly as he can stupid Protestants.
The stupid Catholics on this thread seem to quite resent being identified with their stupid Protestant counterparts.
I only rail on the dumb ones.....the rest of you are smart enough to realize that your Catholic faith has survived much worse in it’s 2000 years than an idiotic comment or two (or two hundred) from Protestants that don’t bother to understand even basic elements of your faith before commenting.
Hey, I’m an ex-piskie, too. I got out just before they made homosexuality mandatory.
Damn straight.
Sodomites will be sodomites, unfortunately.
Until we as a people realize (again) the serious evil of sexual sin, of all types, homosexual and heterosexual, we will continue to see more of this sort of thing in the future. The “sexual revolution” (or “de-evolution”) of the ‘60s was a camel’s nose under the tent, bringing in all kinds of perversions.
And now in the popular culture it’s considered bigotry or “hate” just to call sexual sin perversion.
They know who they are. If you're not one, don't worry about it, nobody was blaming you.
You must have been at the other end of the Piskie high/low continuum if you didn't wind up with the Catholics (unless you wound up with the Orthodox). We were all so high our noses bled . . . as my dad says, "Up in the rafters with the bats."
“Nobody condemned “all Protestants””
Some took such offense at the comments of a few that they did use the broad brush. No matter - they define only themselves.
I stayed with traditional end of things Anglican - however that has its own issues - the traditional Anglicans haven’t coalesced yet. Most I think are still shellshocked from aboninations stacked upon abominations from the ECUSA.
We’ll figure it out eventually.
Uh huh.
Well, good luck. We got tired of waiting around for the Network or the Continuing crowd to get their act together. Plus we live in a traditionally “low” diocese, plus we had small children and couldn’t spend years waiting. Nor did I want to spend years without the consolation of the Sacraments . . . .
Some folks did, in fact, "[blame] rank-and-file Catholics, or Catholic doctrine for the molesters" ... but such folks aren't in their right mind.
Good luck to you, as well. Your kids will be well served by a Catholic upbringing.
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