If you believe, you would know this.

Let me….let me….hold forth on something not as divisive as politics…religion……or more appropriately, faith.

This entire scandal with the Catholic Church is a disgrace….it IS…and any efforts to treat it differently should be a disgrace.  For YEARS the closed environment of the Catholic Church has been known, not as a breeding ground for homosexuality and pedophilia, but as an outlet for it.  People do not GROW to be fagtards or pedophiles because they are priests, instead they seek out the priesthood BECAUSE they are fagtards and peds; that whole “which comes first, the homo or the church” thingie.   I believe, and I think I can point to a significant number of writings by the early church fathers, as well as in the gospels themselves, that one of the KEY things of Christianity was the development of the family and an hierarchy which really shunned boning young boys up the dookie shoot.  Did man hijack that?  Yes, “he did”, they were probably early democrats and just shit on one of the main principles.  But that said….officially the Church, and the faith is something that does not encourage or condone that.  We cannot think that a man made rule (and it is) that restricts from marriage also allows them to molest children.

Children, and I have a few and am associated with more than a few are THE future.  This is why I actually lose sleep at night, the thought that we are turning over our future to kids born and raised in liberal shitholes, educated in state schools……the kids are our future…..and I am pretty damned sure that our future is not to be built by kids whose childhood is shattered by a collared man of God that teaches that a homo blow job is the way to heaven.  Call me crazy, but I am just saying.

BUT….and you knew there was one…..BUT….THAT is not the faith.  That is not the faith and that is not the belief.  You see, I actually BELIEVE, for all of my language and failures that Christianity IS the foundation of western civilization.  I BELIEVE that Christ is THE son of an unseen God, born of a virgin, that he came to fulfil the old testament, that he shouldered the sins of all mankind (giving them a chance to live up to a pretty high standard set by his father, which man had previously doinked up).  I BELIEVE that he was crucified to mortal death, buried, arose on the third day and ascended into heaven.  I BELIEVE that.  Science and history support that, but even without that, I BELIEVE that.  And I do NOT believe that part and parcel of the early, and now modern church, was child abuse, bareback donkey riding, homosexuality and pedophilia.  Nowhere is it written, and nowhere is it accepted in the Christian Church.  The book of Leviticus mandates that “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination” (wording varies depending on the translation).  That was one of the mandates to Gods chosen people, along with about 100 others that were repealed in the New Testament and with the new covenant…..I said about 100 others (like, eat pork if you love bacon), but the one that was ABSOLUTELY carried over into Christianity was ”You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination”.  THAT one is still a red flag.

That is not the church.

Your faith is the church….that is why we call if ‘faith’.

If you don’t recall from earlier writings, I studied with an Anglican priest for about a year and as accepted to the seminary.  It was a great deal….stay in the Army, leave Aviation and be a priest, keep my badges, whistles, rank.  When I was approaching the fish or cut bait time I cut bait.  I was CERTAIN that the almighty would strike me dead on the altar, had I tired that.  I knew I COULD be a good priest, but I knew I was NOT a priest.  There are things people in my church, indeed the entire church, does that I find DEEPLY, and I mean DEEP to my core, offensive and not faith based.  I cannot stop that, I tried.  I led the delegation from my parish to vote AGAINST ordaining a gay priest as a bishop.  But THAT is not the faith, that is not the “Church”.

As an Anglican I am a heretic in that I BELIEVE in the foundations of the Catholic Church as well as the catholic church (get the difference?).  The men that defiled that in this latest scandal, or the most current version of it,  are men, they are to be blamed and they SHOULD be blamed and held accountable, and the Cardinals and the Pope should drop the hammer on the entire affair, and if they are complicit, the college of cardinals should drop the hammer on them all.

What has happened in the Church is wrong, it is wrought by man, not by God.

And if you believe, you would know that.