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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 11/14/2008 : 04:23:16
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I think they're getting crazier. Or stupider, or both. But that is what happens when a basically totalitarian organization stays in power for too long, becomes too rich, and too used to issuing commands rather than advice. The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.
"Our nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president," Newman wrote, referring to Obama by his full name, including his middle name of Hussein.
"Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exits constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ's Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation."
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The Rev. Jay is, obviously, full of shit, but he can scarcely be entirely blamed for it. His full-of-shitness stems from some two millennia of Catholic teachings and oppression of their followers.
Interestingly, back around early 1400s, or thereabout, some followers realized how full of shit the Church was, and began the Protestant Reformation. This seemed like a a good idea at the time, and indeed, it was. At the time. But like many good & timely ideas, it deteriorated into being run by pretty much the same sort of vicious looney-toons as the Catholic grab-ass. And today, we see that little has changed in either camp except in degree.
So, some SC Catholics will have to repent voting their conscience or give up jebus crackers and cheap plonk. They should count their blessings; at the time of the Reformation, something like voting for Obama would get them charged with heresy, tortured for a confession, and burned.
Ah, for the good 'ol days, when priests and bishops, and their Protestant counterparts could be really serious assholes!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Edited by - filthy on 11/14/2008 04:57:15
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 11/14/2008 : 09:16:06 [Permalink]
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Woaw; leaving aside the legal issues concerned; I am pretty sure that many Catholics will be uncomfortable with such unabashed politicizing.
I certainly hope that this raise enough of a fuss for Newman's hierarchy to take retaliatory measures against the reverend... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 11/14/2008 : 10:33:02 [Permalink]
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| I truly resent the fact that I have to live on the same planet with people like that. |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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No! Can not has jebus cracker!
