"An ideology of evil"
So I've been meaning to create a blog forever in order to discuss my views on things in the news/politics/music/whatever. Well today something in the news outraged me enough to motivate me to actually start this thing . . .
The Pope, in his upcoming book, calls gay marriage part of "an ideology of evil". He also compares abortion to the holocaust. I suppose that means he doesn't think that abortion is a big deal since the Catholic Church didn't seem to think that the holocaust was a big deal at the time it was going on. Ok, that comment was unfair - things change in 60 years - but my point is that in case you weren't aware, the Catholic Church isn't always the most moral of institutions. But it's not the pope calling gay marriage evil that outrages me so much as the lack of outrage (so far at least) by others at the statement. If Bush had made that statement, there would be massive outrage, and rightfully so. But the Pope gets a free pass because he's the leader of the Catholic Church and incidentally above criticism. This REALLY bothers me. When you go to famine-ridden, poverty-stricken, over-populated third world countries and tell the people there not to use condoms, the fact that by telling people such a thing, you are likely to cause more poverty and starvation and AIDS should not be excused by the fact that you think Jesus is really great. Also, am I crazy or has the Pope been largely incompetent in regards to doing anything about the child molestation scandal going on in the Catholic Church? So they've gotten rid of some priests, but that can't be much of a solution being that there's no such thing as something just being a case of a few thousand bad apples. God forbid anyone suggest that the problem has something to do with the nature of the church itself (to suggest what that nature is belongs to another rant). Imagine for a minute that the ACLU had this kind of scandal going on. Conservatives would immediately say the molestation is a result of something intrinsic to the organization; they wouldn't for a second except the idea that it's just a few (thousand) bad apples. But again, the Catholic Church is above criticism.
The Catholic Church does some very good things and some members of the church are very good people, but that by no means gives the organization a free pass to bigoted, fuck over third world countries, and shrug at child molestation.
The Pope, in his upcoming book, calls gay marriage part of "an ideology of evil". He also compares abortion to the holocaust. I suppose that means he doesn't think that abortion is a big deal since the Catholic Church didn't seem to think that the holocaust was a big deal at the time it was going on. Ok, that comment was unfair - things change in 60 years - but my point is that in case you weren't aware, the Catholic Church isn't always the most moral of institutions. But it's not the pope calling gay marriage evil that outrages me so much as the lack of outrage (so far at least) by others at the statement. If Bush had made that statement, there would be massive outrage, and rightfully so. But the Pope gets a free pass because he's the leader of the Catholic Church and incidentally above criticism. This REALLY bothers me. When you go to famine-ridden, poverty-stricken, over-populated third world countries and tell the people there not to use condoms, the fact that by telling people such a thing, you are likely to cause more poverty and starvation and AIDS should not be excused by the fact that you think Jesus is really great. Also, am I crazy or has the Pope been largely incompetent in regards to doing anything about the child molestation scandal going on in the Catholic Church? So they've gotten rid of some priests, but that can't be much of a solution being that there's no such thing as something just being a case of a few thousand bad apples. God forbid anyone suggest that the problem has something to do with the nature of the church itself (to suggest what that nature is belongs to another rant). Imagine for a minute that the ACLU had this kind of scandal going on. Conservatives would immediately say the molestation is a result of something intrinsic to the organization; they wouldn't for a second except the idea that it's just a few (thousand) bad apples. But again, the Catholic Church is above criticism.
The Catholic Church does some very good things and some members of the church are very good people, but that by no means gives the organization a free pass to bigoted, fuck over third world countries, and shrug at child molestation.
posted by Larry R. Friedman at 1:01 AM
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