Real Life …
I’ve been busy in real life, and restricted myself to the races, but things may have calmed down.
I missed posting on Queen Elizabeth’s 60th anniversary of her ascension to the throne, and the bicentennial of Charles Dickens’s birth, as well as the death of the last person to serve in uniform during World War I, Florence Green.
I didn’t comment on the meaningless primary/caucus wins of Rick Santorum, made even more meaningless by the fact that none of the three states [Colorado, Missouri, and Minnesota] actually awarded any delegates as a result of the events. I was amazed to hear people actually discussing the Colorado caucuses as if an event with no effect on the nominating process and involving something like 6% of the those eligible to participate was in some way crucial. Get a grip – it was another ‘none of the above’ indicator.
If things continue like this, you have to wonder if anyone will bother to vote in the actual election in November, not just Republicans, but anyone.
The latest thing is the absurdity of the Republican front group that calls itself the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops complaining that religion is under attack because all employers are required to cover contraceptives in the so-called Obamacare law. Since they didn’t say anything about the contraceptives issue during the Hedgemony and the Republican control of Congress, and this requirement has been in place since December, 2000 for all employers with 15 or more employees, it is obviously a partisan political attack which should be ignored … like the deficit.
The Catholic Church deserted the ‘moral high ground’ decades ago and demonstrated its total lack of a ‘conscience’ in its reaction to the pedophilia among the priesthood.
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“Decades ago”? Try… centuries ago! For all the good works done by individual liberation-theology Catholics (who often suffered excommunication for their troubles), the Catholic Church has been a primarily political organization for at least five centuries. I don’t expect the boy-buggerers to implement any major changes in my lifetime.
In most autocratic organizations they tend to ‘stiffen’ the rules when they sense they are failing. You go through the purges and unexplained policy changes in an attempt to show the rank and file who is in charge.
It only works if the rank and file are illiterate and unable to read and reason for themselves. The Soviet education system was the ‘kiss of death’ for the system. That’s one of the reasons that the Church still uses Latin and then stopped performing the liturgy in Latin – people were catching on.
Woman are the core of any religion. Once you start losing the confidence of women, it is only a matter of time. Large organizations are rarely destroyed, they usually commit ‘suicide’.