Scandal

I was right.

2/17/19

Now we see the true colors of a massive organization that has ruined thousands of lives, and still tries to be convince the world that it is of some worth.

I speak of the Catholic Church which I knew was bad for me 60 years ago.

I was a teen ager that would blurt out inconvenient truths no matter how much it insulted adults.

I tried to lecture my dad on the theory that Jesus went in for reincarnation.

I do not know where I picked up that odd notion, but it was the crack in the wall of my belief in a repressive religion.

I wonder how all those predator priests could justify their actions against the weakest and most helpless of our community. Do they fear hell and damnation?

Obviously not, or they might have believed their own propaganda about homosexuals.

Instead the torture of children became institutionalized and habitual.

Now with the actual defrocking of a cardinal, the church actually admits there is a systemic problem with the power of the priest over the congregation.

I wonder where the parents were in all these cases, and why the abuse went on for so long.

I wonder if this is the beginning of the destruction of a religion just as the religion destroyed so many young lives?

That would be a step in the right direction, because there is way too much interference in politics from religion.

It is a struggle to keep the god talk out of politics, and a handy screen to hide behind when human beings make mistakes.

There are so many good men of science who try to educate us about using reason instead of emotion, but the religious nut bags of the conservative right get out the insult script and try their damnedest to shout down reason and plump up the emotions.

Science does not support the existence of any deity, and the lessening power of any religion is beneficial to the body politic.

My son tries to convince me that my atheism is a religion, but that is not the case. Since religion is a proven negative now, how could living without a deity be called a religion?

My passion is for the truth, not some ridiculous mumbo jumbo. That is all it is-mumbo jumbo about an imaginary, invisible, uncaring and hateful human construct.

We can be happy without believing in an imaginary thing that is never responsive to prayer, but we can’t be happy without a social structure and people who love us “just the way we are”.

The trick is to find compatible people to form loving bonds without fear of what happens after we die, and the guilt that the Catholics try to foster.