(Opinion)
Recently the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands issued a “sincere apology” for decades of covering up the rampant sexual predators within the ranks of its clergy. Affecting as many as 20,000 Dutch children who now can be comforted to forgive and forget their emotional torment and scars because the Catholic Church was forced to deal with the problem and actually admit it is a safe haven for a pit of sex predators in collars who join the ranks for easy prey and guaranteed protection from the Wealthy Hive in Rome.
Worldwide it has been a pandemic.
According to BishopAccountability.org:
“It is a matter of public record that U.S. bishops have knowingly transferred thousands of abusive priests into unsuspecting parishes and dioceses, placing fear of “scandal” ahead of the welfare of children. The bishops themselves have apologized for what they call their “mistake,” but they say nothing about the crucial actions that constitute accountability.”
In 2004, the John Jay report tabulated a total of 4,392 priests and deacons in the U.S. against whom allegations of sexual abuse had been made.
No Outrage over the raping of small innocent children. After all there are baskets to pass around.
And Now, in reaction with the U.S. Government Requirement that insurance coverage provide protection for protection in the form of birth control, members of The Catholic Church are Outraged.
As NPR Reports, Catholics are Split over the Contraceptive Order. “98 percent of Catholic women use birth control at some point in their lifetimes. A new survey by Public Policy Polling shows that a narrow majority of Catholic voters think women employed by Catholic hospitals and universities should have access to contraceptive coverage through their health plans.”
But many of the Leaders in the Catholic Church and in the GOP are Outraged.
Merriam-Webster defines Outrage as the following:
1. an act of violence or brutality
2. a : injury, insult
2. b : an act that violates accepted standards of behavior or taste
3. the anger and resentment aroused by injury or insult
These Catholic Church leaders are at war with Reality.
People having sex responsibly and safely is an Outrage while covering up Decades of Molesting young children by those trusted most and then covered up by the institution using its global resources, money and Power deserves some ‘apologies’.
The moral argument of the Church opposing Birth Control is out of touch with reality as outdated as stoning people for working the Sabbath or the blessings of polygymy (1). These Catholic Church leaders exist in a hypocrite alter reality blinded by the fire of their own ego.
Check it. Retired New York Cardinal Egan retracts apology on Catholic priest sex abuse.
Archbishop Emeritus John C. Favalora of the Miami Archdiocese “partially owned a company that manufactured Yohimbe, an aphrodisiac beverage marketed to horny club-kids with the promise of “the hands-down best sex of your life.” He allegedly took frequent trips to fabulous Key West with his gay associates… ”
Check it. The Catholic Church’s Secret Gay Cabal.
Check it:
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Polygamy:
Genesis 4:19, Genesis 16:1-4, Genesis 25:6, Genesis 26:34, Genesis 31:17, Exodus 21:10
Deuteronomy 21:15, Judges 8:30, 1 Samuel 1:1-2, 2 Samuel 12:7-8, 1 Kings 11:2-3, 1 Chronicles 4:5, 2 Chronicles 11:21, 2 Chronicles 13:21 (14 Wives!), 2 Chronicles 24:3,
Women are viewed largely as property:
Exodus 20:17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Exodus 21:7 A man can sell his daughter as a slave.
Also Exodus 22:16-17.
Some other Laws from the Old Testament:
Death Penalty for:
Breaking the Sabbath (Exodus 31:14, Numb 15:32-36),
Blasphemy (Lev 24:14-16,23).
Not penning up a known dangerous bull (Exodus 21:29),
Cursing your parents (Exodus 21:17, Lev 20:9),
“Living in a city that failed to surrender to the Israelites”. (Kill all the men, make the women and children slaves.) Deut 20:12-14,
Being a “glutton, and a drunkard” (Deut 21:18-21),
Worshiping idols (Ex 22:20, Deut 17:2-7),
Practicing magic (Ex 22:18),
Adultery (Lev 20:10-12: “And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.”
Outdated cruel and unusual laws from an outdated cruel and unusual time. We have moved forward. It is time for these leaders in the GOP and in the Catholic Church to join the rest of reality. The message of Christianity as a Loving Religion that is built upon the foundation of compassion or “suffering with”, needs to come in tune with the sufferings of the modern age.