VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope John Paul on Saturday condemned same sex marriage as an attack on the fabric of society and called on Catholics to combat what he said was aggressive attempt to legally undermine the family.“Attacks on marriage and the family, from an ideological and legal aspect, are becoming stronger and more radical every day,” the 84-year old pontiff said in the unusually strong statement.
“Who destroys this fundamental fabric causes a profound injury to society and provokes often irreparable damage.”
What hypocrisy! What utter crap! Here is the spokesmodel for an organization which has either perpetrated or condoned:
Genocide of indigenous peoples of Americas and Australia
Subjugation and whole-scale theft of entire continents
“Perpetual Slavery” for African peoples
Sectarian wars against peoples who didn’t share their vision
Insisted on and enforced the social inferiority of women
Anti-Semitism
Anti-democratic movements such as fascism
As well as many more despicable acts
So let’s get this straight. If gays get married, civilization will collapse. But wholescale slavery- in many different forms- is not an attack on the “social fabric”? The insistence on the subordinance of women isn’t an attack upon the foundations of society?
And when an organization such as the Catholic Church gets caught in changes of social history, all the Pope needs to do is ask for forgiveness. Like he did for the genocide of indigenous peoples in 2000.
But that doesn’t mean that the Pope is going to return the gold they stole from the same tribes. Heaven forbid! Even second-tier spiritual organizations such as Alcoholics Anonymous insists you make amends by paying restitution. So much for kicking the money changers out of the temple.
Liberty will never come about through religion or within societies who use religion as an ideological prop. Relgions complain that liberty is licence. Socialists point out that religion is licence as well- licence given to states and organizations to murder, cheat and vicitmize.
Which kind of licence do you want? Liberty or theft?
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More info:
Will The Vatican Repeal The Inter Cetera? from Indigenous Law Center
A listing of Catholicism’s “Sins” from the American Catholic.
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