Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of IndulgencesHave you read this article? No, seriously have you read this article? Please read this article!
Let's break this down shall we?
-A 9 year old girl in Brazil gets raped by her step-father
-She becomes pregnant with twins
-Abortions are illegal in Brazil unless the pregnancy poses a threat to the health of the mother or in cases of rape
-The doctors agree to give the 9 year old girl an abortion because her hips are too small give birth AND she was raped
-The Catholic Church then goes on to excommunicate the doctors and the girl's family saying that the zygotes could have been delivered through cesarean and that they've killed 'an innocent'
Are you not angry? Are you not fuming?
I've been brought up in a Catholic background so I know the pro-life stance through and through: Life begins at conception. Life is a gift of God. We have no right to deny a gift from God. etc. etc.
PLEASE! We are not at all concerned with gifts from God.
Proof?
Is this planet that we live on, not a 'gift from God' and what have we done? We've maimed, mutliated, burned, and desecrated this 'gift from God'. So are these people advocating 'going green' or developing a sustainable way of living? These people who have a history of vast wealth, power, and influence? These people who are living in grand palaces with an infinite amount of money, who are out of touch with the world, and living the life that is a far cry from a poor carpenter????
I don't think so!
This girl has been permanently damaged. Her life and family will never be the same. Her innocence was ripped and torn from her, and the Catholic church is more concerned with excommunicating her family and her doctors. What about her step father? Did he not snuff out this girl's, who for all intents and purposes was his daughter, innocence, her life?
They can save their 'killing an innocent' argument because they have A LOT of experience with killing and robbing innocents!
Have all those priests who have been accused and charged with sexual assault and pedophilia been excommunicated? Are they not the real evil that should be cast out of the fold? Not a 9 year old girl's family the doctors who gave her a new lease on life. A girl who was ravaged and impregnated by an evil man who she trusted and loved. Their logic to me, is mind boggling. Its completely backwards, its completely out of touch, its completely irrational and illogical.
This is classic Roman Catholicism: everything exists in a vacuum. Only WE get into heaven so you have to listen to us!
This is so sickening! And they wonder why more and more people are turning away from The Church.
Sidenote: I went to a Catholic school all my life and in my high school years I went to an all girls school. Basically what I learned was that within the church, as women, we would always be second class. As women our only useful function, besides being members of the ~*alter guild*~, were to be baby machines. And lastly chastity, purity, and morality began and ended with us: you have sex before you're married: you're a whore. REPENT, SLUT. Your boyfriend has sex before he's married: Boys will be boys.
How messed up is that? In heterosexual consenting intercourse, it takes two to tango and yet only the women are persecuted. Only the women are sluts! In fact we tempted them! We seduced them! Its our fault! Those poor defenseless men, how could they EVER say no? Well they don't have to, because even if they say yes, its the woman's fault! Their immortal souls are not in jeopardy :phew:
And people wonder why I've walked away?
