Saturday, April 17, 2010

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: Pathetic...




I am sorry that I have to keep returning to the Vatican pedophile issue but it just will not go away or better yet, the Vatican together with its bishops and cardinals throughout the world will not let the issue go away by constantly defending and even deflecting their guilt. I, for one, cannot let their absurdist pronouncements go unchallenged and will at every turn, point out how absolutely ludicrous their positions are which in turn, points to how absolutely low the Catholic Church’s credibility, in all realms, has fallen.

The latest absurdity comes from Mexico and Bishop Felipe Arizmendi, bishop of the San Cristobal de las Casas Diocese in Chiapas State, Mexico.

The bishop sought to blame the priestly pedophile problem on the country’s public-school sex education program. His words, “In the midst of the invasion of so much eroticism, it is not easy to remain faithful in celibacy or in respecting children”.

More words, “When there is generalized sexual licentiousness, it is more common to have pederasty”. For those who don’t know, pederasty is anal sex between an adult male and a boy.

In essence, he is saying that the public-school sex education program creates a milieu that makes it hard for priests to keep their celibacy vows?

I hope you are getting the gist of what this bishop is trying to say in a speech to a convention of bishops. He is saying that because of the public school program, it is NOT EASY for priests to resist having anal sex with young boys so they should not be blamed if they stray into the forbidden.

What about the greater majority of males in this world who are never tempted by pederasty or who are not pedophiles? Most men are normal but it is becoming very apparent that many priests are not normal men which give credence to the proposition that the priesthood is a magnet for abnormal men.

For the bishop to try to blame priest’s proclivities on a school sex-education program is totally idiotic and as one professional counselor in Mexico said “Those of good conscience in the Church should stop this absurdity and find good help”.

Another said, “Blaming the problems that the Catholic Church has had with priests sexually abusing minors on sex education makes no sense…it borders on the pathetic.”

And that word PATHETIC seems to describe the feeble attempts by the Catholic Church to defend and deflect its collective guilt of child molestation.

I once again call on each country’s justice system(s) to prosecute to the fullest extent, the crimes committed by individual priests as well as the crime of covering up those crimes by the criminals’ superiors.

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