The lord be with you.
I was brought up as a Roman Catholic.
My mother was what you might call a bad Catholic. She had been brought up with the 'faith' around her but didn't really commit to it in a big way. My father was not a Catholic. My mother often made her boys go to church, but often didn't turn up herself. I have four brothers and only one still professes to belong to the faith.
Priests used to sometimes pop by our house and, for a while, I got drafted in to be an altar boy. I really did this to keep my mother happy. The priests tried to teach us a bit of Latin (the mass was presented in Latin then) but I truly doubt that any of our Irish priests really spoke the language.
The true revelation started in the years 1964 and 1965. We had two Marist Brothers named Brother Leon and Brother Benedict. I was aged between 11 and 13 at the time and attending school at Marist Thorndon.
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| Brother Leon |
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| Brother Benedict |
I tell you this because Robert (my still Catholic brother) is lecturing about abortion. (use my links service to check out his posts - it's titled Robert)
Hello!
Go and piss somewhere else Robert.
Ciao tutti.
1 commento:
Well said.
Robert is so fucked up about this free will thing that he cannot or will not admit that people are coerced into actions (like getting pregnant) because for many different reasons they are powerless to stop them happening. Pregnancy from Rape, to him contribute to only a tiny percentage in abortion statistics. The problem with this is that his idea of a rapist probably is like a propaganda figure in a Nazi or Soviet poster. He is unlikely to see a rapist as some 'kindly' uncle, stepfather, friend, nice guy at the pub or god-forbid, a priest or Marist brother. And don't get me started on the many other reasons that women seek abortions because of unwanted pregnancies where they became pregnant through ignorance, lack of education, diminished responsibility, drunkenness, poverty, abusive relationships, poor contraception advice (like what that stupid Catholic Church dishes out .....phew! Sorry for parallel universing your blog posts but ...sheesh!
Anyway, well said.
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