One of the pluses of hanging out on this blog for
the past four years has been an almost daily education of the finer details of
Catholic and Christian theology or the approach to the concept of the abstract
G*d thing.
I am, many times. a day or two late and more than a
few dollars short on the subject of theology BTW.
But I am reminded of two things as the religious
parasite crowd in this country wants more and more handouts of cash from the
government for its charity and education rackets.
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I am not anti-religion. I am Areligionist - without dogma and or religion, with a background dose
of Cultural Christian in my everyday mindset.
The two things are related to a third thing – the civil
rights issue of marriage equality.
I am reminded of the Bishop of Denver sanctioning
the turning out of two small children from their catholic school in an affluent suburb
because their parents were an unmarried lesbian couple living together. Apparently it is not legal for the "Spouse One" and the "Spouse Two" boxes on many marriage certificate applications in America
to be filled in with the names of people of the same gender in Colorado, a wild west territory until 1876.
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Beyond that there are too many stories of gay men
and women who are not openly, but covertly, fired from jobs in Catholic and
probably Christian education as well because they dare to walk out of the shadows of a
lie that society builds around the misunderstanding of human sexuality, built
on invented terms, many of which were invented in Victorian England and in
reflection of the obsessive compulsive disorder of the German Prince Consort
Albert and other compulsive Victorians.
I am reminded of the Mormons who had to give up
their socially designed redesign around the marriage thing in the form of one
man marrying many women and calling his concubines "wives" and married in Mormon
Temple etc. That the Mormons had to abandon polygamy in order to gain statehood
in the United States as the state of Utah.
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That I am reminded that it is the Mormons who raised
the most cash to turn back the California law allowing civil, not religious,
marriage for taxpaying gay citizens, male and female.
This spiteful Mormon deal carries over onto the
Catholic landscape where the latest hate campaign against gay catholics is at a
fever pitch and in obedience to monies paid to the RC church from the
fundamentalist Christian Right and the Mormon Church to introduce American
society over a period of decades to the concept that it is alright to openly
hate the gays in the form of disqualification from marriage (sorry, failed the religious litmus test as defined precisely by G*d hisself) and eventually other
civil rights as well.
And not just for gays but eventually all people of
free conscience in a once free land that was founded to protect people from the
dark shadows of things like Catheofascism among other dark religious beliefs
and laws in Europe.
The second thing is the firing of a catholic school
teacher in June in Minnesota for saying that she believed in the concept of
same-sex marriage on her self-filled out evaluation. The story made all the
papers for a day or two. The teacher, Trish Cameron, no doubt could not live with the
hypocrisy of a lie that so many of the majority of the closeted gay clergy can
live with every day to protect their meal-ticket lifetime jobs with the
Vatican.
I pray that one day we gain back the morality and
integrity of a non-majority Catholic United States Supreme Court to state that yes, Catholic Clergy are
employees of an international corporation and that Headquarters in Rome can be
sued for hate, fraud and buggery as part of that worldwide organization.
It may be me alone and too many people may be too lazy to
notice it but expelling children from Catholic Schools, children from Bishop
Chaput’s diocese school for their parents beliefs and sexuality and the firing
of teachers and theologians and others from Catholic institutions reminds me an
awful lot of the early days of the National Socialist Regime in Germany in the early
1930s.
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In fact the recent story, greatly upset me, of the Catholic Church
in Germany wanting, demanding its 8% income tax on German citizens for accident of birth
and or accident of baptism in one particular faith, as a financial burden for the
rest of their lives of these catholic victims by birth, whether they believe in the faith or whether they attend
church or not.
That I have to wonder when did this right of
Catholic Church taxation of German citizens begin – the German/Vatican Concordat of 1933?
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No doubt Ross Douthat of the NYT, Michael Sean Winters
of NCR, Raymond Arroyo of EWTN and Bill Donohue of Timbo Dolan NYC Inc. will soon be churning out the
Catheofascist propaganda PR about how what a great and efficient idea a
Catholic Tax in America will be, to have it imposed on all the population etc., Catholic or not.
With more and more overlapping of church and state
in America, with faith based “charities” handouts to foreign religious
corporations, with school vouchers and other indirect subsidies to the Catholic
education system that is allowed by right of some mythical God that they cannot
prove to me exists, and are therefore exempt or want exemption from other secular
humanist laws like laws against discrimination, well you think about it.
How long before the Catholic Church surcharge on
your state and national income taxes must be paid under penalty of the law –
which law – secular law or the religious laws of the new American Catheofascism?
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I will definitely have to remember Catheofascism, because it's all about the money. Don't forget, it's also a religious economic system.
ReplyDeleteGood point. But think about it though. Spain, Italy, Germany, Central, South America, Marcos' Philippines, the system was crony acquisition. Rewards for the cronies who carry out the orders blindly. Crony capitalism and fascism are indistinguishable most of the time in my POV.
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