Posted on 10/29/2009 6:18:03 AM PDT by NYer
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows:
Last Friday on the Washington Post blog, “On Faith,” English atheist Richard Dawkins said the Catholic Church was “surely up there among the leaders” as “the greatest force for evil in the world.” He labeled the Eucharist a “cannibal feast,” adding that “possession of testicles is an essential qualification to perform the rite.” He also blamed the Church for sending missionaries “out to tell deliberate lies to AIDS-weakened Africans” regarding condoms. The Church’s outreach to Anglicans, he said, makes it “a common pimp,” noting that those who convert “will be joining an institution where buggering altar boys pervades the culture.”
On Saturday, a Los Angeles Times editorial said that “church leaders, including popes, have changed their thinking over the years about everything from usury to the culpability of Jews for the Crucifixion….” It concluded, “You don’t have to be Catholic (or Anglican) to realize that society as a whole would be better off if the church’s views of women and gays underwent a similar evolution.”
On Sunday, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd recalled that when she was in grade school, “Nuns were second-class citizens then and–40 years after feminism utterly changed America—they still are.” She called Pope Benedict XVI the “uber-conservative pope,” a.k.a. “God’s Rottweiler,” who was once “a conscripted member of the Hitler Youth.” She also accused the Church of enabling “rampant pedophilia.”
On Monday, James Carroll in the Boston Globe called the outreach to Anglicans “a cruel assault,” “an insult to loyal Catholic liberals” and “a slap at women and homosexuals.” He characterized the outreach as a “preemptive exploitation of Anglican distress.”
These deranged comments—all voiced in America’s premier newspapers—demonstrate that anti-Catholicism is the most virulent expression of bigotry in the U.S. It also shows why these newspapers, quite unlike the Catholic Church, are dying. As for the writers, they need to go to church. Either that or check into an asylum.
Good news bump! We must be doing a good job to be so hated and despised.
That’s true.
Theres that flack and target thing again. Count us in good company! Lots of saints, martyrs, and Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin LOL! (I know they are not catholics, but they take alot of flack for being over the target!)
-On Monday, James Carroll in the Boston Globe called the outreach to Anglicans “a cruel assault,” “an insult to loyal Catholic liberals” and “a slap at women and homosexuals.”-
Well,seeing how “good” letting homosexuals become priests worked out.......
Gay Priests and Gay Marriage
What the one issue has to do with the other.
http://www.nationalreview.com/03june02/kurtz060302.asp
We could pray for poor Dawkins, you know. Just a thought. I know someone who hated the Church and had ab adversarial relationship with the Lord just as bad as his—another overeducated scientist—and he too came to acknowledge the Lord by getting a blast of His love. So miracles happen. Other aetheists have admitted their error, and Dawkins might, too.
Where is the hate crimes bill? Oh,wait,Christians aren’t
covered. Nevermind!
“Examine your records. There you will find that Nero was the first that persecuted this doctrine, particularly then when after subduing all the east, he exercised his cruelty against all at Rome. We glory in having such a man the leader in our punishment. For whoever knows him can understand that nothing was condemned by Nero unless it was something of great excellence.”
-Tertullian
I’m waiting for them to come out against the teachers unions. It seems lately that a lot of teachers have been caught abusing children.
anti-Catholicism...the last “safe” bigotry in America.
trying to soften them up for getting Obamacare passed with tax funded abortions
Then again he may indeed be insane.
I understand their frustration, imagine wanting to control the thoughts and actions of Christians who believe in an all-powerful God. Imagine a supernatural organization on earth with beliefs as unchangable as God and you can understand their feelings of powerlessness. I imagine they feel about as frustrated as Satan, they have some power over those who will follow them but the ultimate power will always be out of their reach.
The most recent form of nativism. Of course they also hate conservative evangelicals, but when they talk about the Church they lose control of themselves.
1) It means we are right on target, they never waste ammo on those that are not doing the job.
2) It keeps the CINO's out. You have to really believe to suffer att he hands of the enemy.
3) Eventually their irrationality will show through and people will recognize them for the wack jobs they really are.
The major newspapers and all the rest of the media hate traditional Americans. Their hate is directed at those who are not in lockstep with them. All at the same time spewing their garbage about diversity and tolerance. I love to watch the media participate in their own demise.
Let's list the sins against the secular god for which the Church is responsible.
1. AIDS in Africa
2. The Holocaust.
3. The persecution of homosexuals.
4. Attempting to wreck the Anglican Church.
5. Raping children.
6. The degradation of women.
7. Hording stacks of money and art treasures while people starve.
Any others?
So what would you have is do with this organization? And all the people cried with one voice......"crucify it, crucify it....."
Remember when the Convention, including the likes of Jack Kemp, howled when Buchanan spoke of a culture war? The dims have got down and dirty, but still our leadership acts as though fighting were beneath them.
But they don't, and won't, perhaps with some concern as to the loss of their own heads when what they seem to want eventually comes to pass.
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