This post is not going to be nice.
Because I'm tired of trying to write after I've "calmed down." I know it makes you sound more mature and it gives your argument more weight and validity if you don't sound like a screaming child, but I've had it... and I'm venting. Why should I try and be a civilized person and act like an adult when the other side simply calls me a "Godless Nazi" anyway? So here's the deal....
Yet another story to make you want to tear your hair and scream
How they can find fault with a 44 BILLION dollar donation to charity is beyond me! I'm talking of course about Warren Buffett pledging his fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation-- an organization which busies itself trying to end minor problems like oh say... combating disease and poverty in developing countries!!
Sure, less than one percent of their charity funds go to Planned Parenthood BUT that money is ear-marked for non-abortion services. Planned Parenthood is an organization which provides women with reproductive health check-ups, affordable contraception, pap and cancer screenings and information regarding many other women's health issues-- not to mention, offers counseling and sex education (including a focus on abstinence and SAFE sex).
How many of us can imagine having 44 billion dollars-- let alone donating it all to charity? Yet, the Catholic Church and pro-life zealots (read: idiots) are foaming at the mouth over this because less than one percent is going to Planned Parenthood-- and not even for abortions!!!
Rev. Thomas Euteneuer (a Roman Catholic priest who is president of Human Life International) compared Buffett to Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi death camp doctor; Euteneuer said Buffett, "will be known as the Dr. Mengele of philanthropy unless he repents."
Here's a clue, Buffett doesn't have to repent to you. You're not Jesus. You're a priest on a soapbox who has decided that he speaks for God and knows exactly how God feels on every issue (even though Jesus never said one word on abortion.) As far as I'm concerned Rev. Euteneuer is just another face in a looming Catholic faction who have devoted themselves away from the word of Christ and become a cult of hatred and misogyny. Earth to uber-conservative one-track-mind priests….YOU ARE NOT GOD. You are simply a "celibate" man in a dress (celibate providing you can stay away from those tempting alter boys) who has no business commenting on what reproductive choices are available to women. Maybe if you'd ever grow up and acknowledge that women don't want to pop out kids constantly and want some say in their body, we could take you seriously. And probably not even then because you don't have families and you don't even allow women to hold the same position of power within the church as you do (Um yeah "No girls allowed clubs" are so 4th grade).
Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, holds the Buffett family partially responsible for the approval of RU-486 (the abortion pill) because their financial contributions went to research for the drug. Perkins said, "Since then, approximately 500,000 American babies have been killed with RU-486."
Okay once again going to have to explain the obvious: Buffett didn't kill any babies. First and foremost because abortions don't "kill babies" they terminate a pregnancy. It is illegal to murder infants. It is not illegal to terminate a pregnancy, or fetus, or in some cases a literal cluster of cells that has the POTENTIAL to become human life.
How can we ever hope to make headway in this country between moderates when those shrieking loudest are these incompetent fools who want the world's population to explode until there's no room, water, or resources to feed them all? In their world a woman cannot have control of her reproductive destiny. Well obviously this is not a problem certain celibate priests have taken the time to ponder....
Wonder if they've noticed that most of their Catholic followers use contraception anyway and the majority of their priests don't even buy into this bullshit nonsense? I've met progressive priests and NUNS-- they are out there and they are getting sick of this garbage)... Sadly I also know priests and priests-to-be that have decided to focus all shreds of energy to this problem of the "murdered unborn." To them I say without apology: I don't think you are real Catholics. Real Catholics, they read the bible and go to church and applaud people like Warren Buffett for giving so generously of his fortune to help the sick, needy and hungry... something Jesus was all about!
Thursday, June 29, 2006
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6 comments:
The Catholic church is hopelessly passe and their policies are downright cruel and abusive, especially to women.
I just recently stumbled onto your blog (can't remember how), and you totally rock! God, I remember having the fire when I was your age. Back then there was no internet, no blogs. I just got mad by myself in my room. :-)
Keep up the good work. Blog on!
A Wonderous Critique of Savoir-Faire
By Jimmy "Yellow Dart" Hargreaves
Said: "Why should I try and be a civilized person and act like an adult when the other side simply calls me a "Godless Nazi" anyway?"
Critique: Don't worry, I'm sure the other side feels the same way.
Said: "Sure, less than one percent of their charity funds go to Planned Parenthood BUT that money is ear-marked for non-abortion services."
Critique: Nice plug. But hey, your blog.
Said: "Yet, the Catholic Church and pro-life zealots (read: idiots) are foaming at the mouth...."
Critique: I tried looking for the *idiots* section of your blog but had no luck in finding it. So I just looked up the definition. Didn't see anything about any churches though. So I'm not quite sure that can be a founded statement without any generous amounts of bias as your influence. (In the south they say that all black people like watermelon and fried chicken.)
Said: "You're a priest on a soapbox who has decided that he speaks for God and knows exactly how God feels on every issue (even though Jesus never said one word on abortion.)"
Critique: As opposed to a blogger on a soapbox. By the way, I think abortion may have been on The Messiah's agenda, just short of saving mankind of all its sins.
Said: "(celibate providing you can stay away from those tempting alter boys)"
Critique: Considering the sentence directly after this one discuses growing up and being taken seriously, I really have to wonder if your taking the time to be socially tact,or if your just sniffing markers as you type.
Said: "(Um yeah "No girls allowed clubs" are so 4th grade)"
Critique: From what I understand of your blog, your "No boys allowed club" goes by the name of feminism.
Said: "First and foremost because abortions don't "kill babies" they terminate a pregnancy."
Critique: Pregnancy defined:Carrying developing offspring within the body. So let's just switch some stuff around in that quote. "First and foremost because abortions don't "kill babies" they terminate a developing offspring within the body." Hmm, nope, that didn't really sound much better or make any more sense. *See insert above about sniffing markers.
Said: "Real Catholics, they read the bible and go to church and applaud people like Warren Buffett for giving so generously of his fortune to help the sick, needy and hungry... something Jesus was all about!"
Critique: I can actually taste the righteousness in this one. Nail yourself to a cross, then we'll talk.
I made it very clear I wasn't attacking all Catholics. Just those zealots and hypocrites (read: preaching from the pulpit about saving the unborn, all while molesting young children and ruining those fragile young lives) -- or perhaps not molesting children themselves, but looking the other way and moving deviant priests from church to church to cover it up.
Half my family is Catholic, and I'm dating a Catholic! I said, I've met progressive priests. Just as I know progressive Catholics. I've even met non-progressive priests who've been respectful when saying they are against abortion. It's just not something they can stand behind. But they are respectful and aren't gonna compare a major philanthropist to a nazi death camp doctor.
I'm not going to sit here and explain to you why a fetus isn't the same as a living, breathing life. That said, I don't think a fetus is disposable. It has the POTENTIAL to become a life, and for that reason, I don't think I could ever have an abortion myself-- but I won't let people take that choice from other women.
A woman's life has to be worth more than the fetus she can carry. Otherwise, we strip women of the right to control their own body.
The mere fact that you suggest that feminism is an "all boys club" shows your immaturity and clear lack of knowledge.
I stand behind everything I said, if you don't like it, go to pro-life blogs. You'll like them much better.
I made it very clear I wasn't attacking all Catholics. Just those zealots and hypocrites (read: preaching from the pulpit about saving the unborn, all while molesting young children and ruining those fragile young lives) -- or perhaps not molesting children themselves, but looking the other way and moving deviant priests from church to church to cover it up.
Half my family is Catholic, and I'm dating a Catholic! I said, I've met progressive priests. Just as I know progressive Catholics. I've even met non-progressive priests who've been respectful when saying they are against abortion. It's just not something they can stand behind. But they are respectful and aren't gonna compare a major philanthropist to a nazi death camp doctor.
I'm not going to sit here and explain to you why a fetus isn't the same as a living, breathing life. That said, I don't think a fetus is disposable. It has the POTENTIAL to become a life, and for that reason, I don't think I could ever have an abortion myself-- but I won't let people take that choice from other women.
A woman's life has to be worth more than the fetus she can carry. Otherwise, we strip women of the right to control their own body.
The mere fact that you suggest that feminism is an "all boys club" shows your immaturity and clear lack of knowledge.
I stand behind everything I said, if you don't like it, go to pro-life blogs. You'll like them much better.
PS: Find me a quote where Christ talks about making abortion illegal and we'll talk.
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