We won't even get into the Church's leading role in the genocide of the Americas once they showed up in the New World with Columbus, Cortez and Pizarro.
We won't even get into the Church's leading role in the genocide of the Americas once they showed up in the New World with Columbus, Cortez and Pizarro.
I want to make certain no one reads what I said as "anti-Catholic." I've known many very sincere Catholics, and they have been laudable people. I'll never forget meeting Ammon Hennacy, who with Dorothy Day founded the Catholic Worker movement, and when I met him ran a house in Salt Lake City where anyone could come for shelter for as long as they needed it (so long as they were willing to become a part of the community and participate in keeping things going so others could be helped). But he, along with Dorothy Day, had been threatened with Excommunication by the Catholic Church in America for being "communists," so my critique of the institution stands. I think of him as one of the first people I ever recognized as a "saint," though the Church never would. I believe in "saints," but not the way the Church does. I believe in them as living measuring sticks for the rest of us to see how short the rest of us come up on the scale of being a good and worthwhile person who really Does The Right Thing. Most of the saints I have known would be considered Enemies of the Church were they Catholics (and some were).
You might add that Evangelical Christians, while they havenтАЩt been at it for as long, are at least as bad, and probably worse, than Catholics on most issues, and their voting record is substantially worse.
We won't even get into the Church's leading role in the genocide of the Americas once they showed up in the New World with Columbus, Cortez and Pizarro.
I want to make certain no one reads what I said as "anti-Catholic." I've known many very sincere Catholics, and they have been laudable people. I'll never forget meeting Ammon Hennacy, who with Dorothy Day founded the Catholic Worker movement, and when I met him ran a house in Salt Lake City where anyone could come for shelter for as long as they needed it (so long as they were willing to become a part of the community and participate in keeping things going so others could be helped). But he, along with Dorothy Day, had been threatened with Excommunication by the Catholic Church in America for being "communists," so my critique of the institution stands. I think of him as one of the first people I ever recognized as a "saint," though the Church never would. I believe in "saints," but not the way the Church does. I believe in them as living measuring sticks for the rest of us to see how short the rest of us come up on the scale of being a good and worthwhile person who really Does The Right Thing. Most of the saints I have known would be considered Enemies of the Church were they Catholics (and some were).
You might add that Evangelical Christians, while they havenтАЩt been at it for as long, are at least as bad, and probably worse, than Catholics on most issues, and their voting record is substantially worse.
Oh yes, indeed. Interestingly enough, they didn't get really bad till Jerry Falwell came along to organize them in the "Moral" Minority.
Amen.
LOL, and Ah-women! (This is just messing around, and real language gender fixing could go on forever!)
Love this Ellie, lol.
Yes.
Wherever there is power to be grabbed and people to be exploited, predators will be on the prowl.