What nerve~! After having last year compared gay people to the ku klux klan,
this year he does it again! now that gay marriage is likely to be approved in Illinois, he wants to play politics even as he dodges his taxes by writing a lil letter calling gay marriage unnatural.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-r-stone/cardinal-george-same...
let's put aside the fact that his church has spent 2 billion dollars covering up the crimes of his predator priests and these people have headed an international criminal conspiracy to cover up child molestation over generations ...
isn't morality itself unnatural? it's meant to tame our natural aggression. Nature is completely amoral: there's cannibalism in nature, some species of birds sacrifice one chick if that increases the chances of survival of the stronger chick. And dogs, dolphins, octopi, apes, almost all mammals engage in homosexuality. what does he mean by unnatural, and in what way would that be relevant to ethical questions? his doctrine is so unsophisticated, feudal, archaic, bigoted and stupid, and his church so lacking in credibility that it's embarrassing that this type of nonsense is still coming out of his mouth and that he even thinks he has the moral authority to utter this.
sorry for ranting ... phew! i wonder if there's a way to effectively boycott the catholic church?
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"Civil laws that establish 'same-sex marriage' create a legal fiction," [Cardinal George] wrote, because the "State has no power to create something that nature tells us is impossible."
Oh ... is THAT why we see homosexual behavior in hundreds of species other than Homo sapiens? Is that why attempts to cull or train or use aversion therapy to remove homosexual behavior from human beings has been an unmitigated failure? Nature seems to think pretty contrary to Cardinal George's thinking, but of course, he will ignore that because man is a separate and special creation, isn't he? That matter of those two chromosomes of ours having originated in apes and fused as a part of the creation of our species is not something he's willing to consider.
Once again, church doctrine is supposed to rule über alles, and if there is some fact of nature which contradicts the church, it's just conveniently ignored.
I was baptised there and tried, actually for years. The Catholic Church has such a heinous bureaucracy that it was almost impossible to get a certificate of apostasy from them. I contacted the church of my baptism, they told me to contact someone locally, I contacted someone locally and they told me to contact the church where I was baptised, I contacted someone where I grew up and they said I should contact someone else. There's no streamlined way of doing it, they try to hide their numbers by making it hell on Earth for anyone wanting a certificate of apostasy: they want your reasons, they wanna talk you out of it, they wanna keep treating you like a child.
I could try again.
You said you simply wrote a letter to the dioceses of your baptism? Did they actually reply and send you a certificate of apostasy or excommunication?
Can you provide a link to a website that helps people wanting to declare apostasy, to streamline the process? I know the network of victims of sexual abuse is a bit more organized in activism against the church than the atheists are, maybe they have an excommunication campaign of some sort that leads people in the right direction. It would be useful to provide similar services through atheist nexus: helping people to connect with the right place to be able to declare their apostasy without so much bureaucracy.
Alright, submitted the email to a person in the dioceses of Brooklyn who said she would accept an act of defection to the Brooklyn bishop and gave me her email addrs. Below is the letter, for the sake of having witnesses to my formal apostasy, it's loosely based on another act of defection letter that I found online and used as template.
This coincides with my formally assuming the secular humanist doctrine of Epicureanism as my personal philosophy and as my formal framework for philosophical discourse so the timing is actually ideal and fits into my seeking authenticity ......
..... (signed)
I commend you and Pat for this action. I just simply resigned my membership from my most recent protestant church. Therefore, I am a member of no church. Gosh, what a good feeling that is. Never even thought about it until you brought it up. Interesting how the catholic church counts its members. They are probably still counting you.
As good a throw-down as I've ever read, Hiram, BRAVO!
As a separate note, I wonder how many of these the church has processed recently and if there has been an up-tick in such processes recently?
Excuse me for saying so, but HELL YEAH! :D
Best post I have read in ages. Asked my family's church to take me of their roles back In 2011 due to my loss of faith several years prior, to which they responded, "Oh, it's okay! We still want you here!" Perhaps I need to send a letter like THAT! Ha!
A Chicago Sun Times article on Obama's support for IL marriage initiative -- most interestingly, at the bottom of the page there's a poll where one can vote on whether marriage should be illegal in IL. I encourage all to vote. Currently, 92 % of poll voters have said yes to gay marriage in the Sun Times poll.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2012/12/obama_urging_state_lawmaker...
Hadn't heard that Illinois was in the queue to legalize gay marriage, but glad to hear it and to vote in the poll. "About time," indeed!
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