Christmas Poo
And I ain't talking Mister Hanky, either.
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Pontifex Maximus, etc. etc. etc. (gloriously reigning - says so on the label) had his annual message to the world to mark the holiday. During his message, which can be likened to beer and sauerkraut farts coming as they do from this Teuton twit, he likened stamping out homosexuality to saving the rainforest.
One of these things is not like the other; one of these things just doesn't belong.
Homosexuality, according to the latest evidence, is a vast category composed of people with a genetic predisposition and those who adopt it as a choice (as well as those adopt it as situations demand). Choosing one's religion is more of a lifestyle choice than homosexuality is, and sexual inversion has been with us since before Christianity reared its head and started assimilating other Eastern mystery religions.
But that's just one of the things from the Vatican to pack lint up my nose this Christmas Day.
The other concerns Florentine astronomer and mathematician Galileo Galilei. Four hundred years ago Galileo demonstrated the truth behind the Copernican model of the solar system; i.e., that the Earth moves around the Sun, and not vice versa. The Church back then asked Galileo to keep his mouth shut about it, which of course didn't take into account his temperament. He was examined by the Inquisition and placed under house arrest until he died. His works were placed on the Index of Prohibited Books and remained there for centuries.
Galileo was pardoned a while back and his works removed from the Index. Now the Church is trying to spin things, saying that Galileo should be considered a bridge between religion and reason.
Yeah. Right.
For two thousand years the thrust of the Christian Church has been credo ut intelligam - believe, and understand. Church thinkers from Tertullian to Thomas Aquinas demanded that a person swallow everything the doctrinal watchdogs gave them, which may have stimulated some thought but suppressed anything that even hinted at violating the established order of things.
We see the stamp of the old Church Militant in such egregious, narrow bigots as William Donohue of the so-called Catholic League.
All of which served to irritate me a tad on this Saturnalia.
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Pontifex Maximus, etc. etc. etc. (gloriously reigning - says so on the label) had his annual message to the world to mark the holiday. During his message, which can be likened to beer and sauerkraut farts coming as they do from this Teuton twit, he likened stamping out homosexuality to saving the rainforest.
One of these things is not like the other; one of these things just doesn't belong.
Homosexuality, according to the latest evidence, is a vast category composed of people with a genetic predisposition and those who adopt it as a choice (as well as those adopt it as situations demand). Choosing one's religion is more of a lifestyle choice than homosexuality is, and sexual inversion has been with us since before Christianity reared its head and started assimilating other Eastern mystery religions.
But that's just one of the things from the Vatican to pack lint up my nose this Christmas Day.
The other concerns Florentine astronomer and mathematician Galileo Galilei. Four hundred years ago Galileo demonstrated the truth behind the Copernican model of the solar system; i.e., that the Earth moves around the Sun, and not vice versa. The Church back then asked Galileo to keep his mouth shut about it, which of course didn't take into account his temperament. He was examined by the Inquisition and placed under house arrest until he died. His works were placed on the Index of Prohibited Books and remained there for centuries.
Galileo was pardoned a while back and his works removed from the Index. Now the Church is trying to spin things, saying that Galileo should be considered a bridge between religion and reason.
Yeah. Right.
For two thousand years the thrust of the Christian Church has been credo ut intelligam - believe, and understand. Church thinkers from Tertullian to Thomas Aquinas demanded that a person swallow everything the doctrinal watchdogs gave them, which may have stimulated some thought but suppressed anything that even hinted at violating the established order of things.
We see the stamp of the old Church Militant in such egregious, narrow bigots as William Donohue of the so-called Catholic League.
All of which served to irritate me a tad on this Saturnalia.
posted by Walt at 8:00 PM
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