Warning!
Achtung!
If you are religious or feel that you may be offended by anti-religious commentary, please DO NOT READ THIS ENTRY.
Well World Youth day is here, it happens this week in Sydney. Honestly, it's like watching a pod of dolphins, herd a school of sardines towards shallow water. Doesn't anyone 'get' what this is all about? The catholic priests invite their favourite prey, young people, to spend a week "getting to know you" in a foreign land, away from their families. Does anyone else see a problem with this?
See, in olden times priests used to refer to 'being called to the cloth'. They described their vocation to the preisthood as a 'calling' and said that if you were called to the priesthood, you'd know it inside yourself. This was of course, a referrence to being gay. It was born of a time when homosexuals were persecuted and could indeed be prosecuted under the law for 'unnatural acts'. Being gay was a crime and so homosexuality went into hiding. Gay men and women went into hiding in monasteries and convents. This then, was 'the calling'. Priests in any land would help and protect another priest who was escaping persecution.
The result today, is a culture of secrecy and protectionism in the catholic church, where a priest who is known to be a paedophile is given in-house counselling by the church and expected to learn to resist the urges he feels. He will then be transferred to another parish after an indiscretion and his past wiped away. Society's attitude towards gays today, is almost benevolent. The modern persecution is against paedophiles and in the same way it did before, the church tightens the ranks to hide and protect it's molesters. The difference this time is that child-molesters are not simply living a different lifestyle. They are in fact a vile, cruel and saddistic group of rapists.
Until the catholic church learns to become a transparent entity, open to scrutiny and subject to the laws of the land, they cannot and should not be trusted. This is especially true where children are concerned. I have no objection to people wanting to have a religion, good luck to them but don't give the church any greater status in the law than anyone else. I gew up in the catholic school system and a more saddistic, cruel and hateful group of people I have yet to meet.
World Youth day, it's like paedophile heaven.
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