Mind Fuzz: U.S. Wants a Theocracy?
Are you freaking kidding me? This country is screeching over contraception, what the Catholic Church wants, and upholding values that would throw us back into the Middle Ages! Are we going to listen to Bishops and Cardinals and whatshisname Santorum tell us how to get our morals back? I am sick unto death over people blathering on about issues of churches that have NO business in our Democracy.
You want a good history lesson? Rent the series “The Borgias” starring Jeremy Irons. Somewhat fiction, but a whole lotta truth, and you will see how the Pope bribed and bought Cardinals to make the Church what he wanted. It had nothing to do with God and neither do the GOP issues. It is all about power.
Check out how many Cardinals were ordained these past few days and why there were so many Italians put in place. It is because “they” want the next Pope to be Italian. What has that to do with God? What has nationality to do with virtue? And who will the GOP ordain? Will it be Father Santorum? Unless you want a theocracy, you better pay attention and VOTE.
This country was not founded on principles of any religion. In fact, it is just the opposite. I have friends who are Catholic, Protestant, Episcopalian, Baptist, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, and agnostics. I would fight to defend their rights as much as my own. If I forgot anyone, I apologize. You have rights too.
My heavens, this country is beginning to sound like Syria! Get these people in line, my friends. These are dangerous precedents. Unless you vote, do not complain when the government tells you NO to availability of contraception devices. Do not complain about anything. If it were not for such apathy in this country, it would never have come to this.
Read. Listen. Clear your foggy brains, and pay attention to what is happening. While you are at it, read my posts at Expats Post.com.
http://expatspost.com/columns/catholic-church-cardinal-bevilacqua-and-other-mysteries/
—cher
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Preach it, sister. I love your pissed off posts.
Really, Bluz, I mean, what the fark! How can this be happening HERE? If you think I am pissed off now, wait till the next caucus. I am so steamed!
Amen sister Cher! Doing my heathen dance.
Go Dan, Go Dan, Go Dan! Do that dance and give them what for!
It amazes me that there are people who don’t vote.. women who don’t vote. We didn’t always have the right to vote… it’s so important. I always do. I am pretty upset about the things that are going on as well. Go Cher!
Dani, women getting the vote was so important, wasn’t it? Many of the issues front and center during this presidential campaign directly impact women…many of whom will not vote. It is a sad commentary, but my hope is that this will change. There is too much at stake.
I do want a Theocracy!
However, there is only one divinely guided and rightful ruler I will accept as such. That is Christ, himself. :]
I belong to the catholic church and, shocker of shockers, I used birth control during my child-bearing years. Another shocker: I wasn’t the only one. Very few American catholic women put the number of kids they have ‘in God’s hands.’ The catholic church knows this, too. Frankly, the whole thing pisses me off.
Janene, I am a Catholic too and also was on birth control during those years. What I love about the Church is the reverance I feel when I am there. What I dislike is the condescention to women and the politicking—both internal and external. And they wonder why they are losing people. Too many secrets. God doesn’t like those kinds of secrets. Thanks, Janene!
One of the reasons that I no longer believe in organized religion is that it works its hardest to keep women in the background, and to envoke rules that Jesus never intended. When I try to explain to my religious friends just who has had control over what is printed in the Bible over the centuries, and how things have been taken out, words changed, things put in, they only stick their fingers in their ears and sing “LALALALALALALA!”
The evangelicals are all about control, and so is the Catholic church.
Amen, my sister, Amen!
The GOP is committing electoral suicide with all this talk. I don’t worry about a theocracy because they are speaking to a very small portion of the electorate, but about half of their party.
New poll this morning has Romney falling to 39% support against Obama’s 49%. Santorum would poll far worse. This is just Republicans, blathering amongst themselves, and turning off more and more voters as they do. Can you imagine an Obama/Santorum debate? It would be laughable.
It will be Romney, and he’ll do his very best John Kerry/Bob Dole/Michael Dukakis/John McCain electoral impression and lose by 10%.
I’m almost sure of it…
Unless Greece collapses….