How does that go? Faith, Hope, and Shunning Charity?

[wednes]

Grrrrr.

I own a Bible. In fact, I own several and I even read them from time to time. I especially read the words of Jesus himself because even a witch can see that Jesus was "Right On".

How the Catholic church decided that contraceptives were bad is beyond me. If anyone would like to enlighten me, I would be only too happy to hear about it. Jesus never said contraceptives are bad. Come to think of it, he never spoke out against abortion either. I understand that condoms indicate the hand of man interfereing where the hand of god alone should be. But come on, we interfere with the hand of God every day. Turning on an electric light means we want light when God says it should be dark. Why isn't this a sin? In fact, why do we live indoors instead of out in the beautiful elements God created? Surely if God wanted us to live in buildings, the garden of eden would have been full of them.
The difference? Sex. The Catholic church loves to punish people for sex, always has. It's one of the main things that separates them from the pagans, who (for the most part) celebrate the union of man and woman as well as the spreading of love among all people. Jesus never said anyone needed to be punished for having sex, even gays. *pretend gasp*

He did, however, extoll the virtues of helping the poor. He often spoke of treating others with kindess even if you don't have to, with classic Jesus lines like "That you do unto the least of my brothers, so you do unto me". So guess what, Catholics? By shunning a charity helping Katrina victims when it costs you nothing monetarily to help, you are shunning Jesus.

I'm having difficulty expresing how disgusted I am that a church would speak out against a charity providing help to people who have just lost their homes. Further, I am horrified that the impetus for this is the fact that this charity helps stop the spread of AIDS in Africa. Why God would give a rat's ass who uses condoms and who doesn't is beyond me. My Bible doesn't mention condoms at all. May I borrow yours, Catholic church?

I guess that's what you get when a Nazi becomes the Pontiff.

Comments

[mason-le-flamme.livejournal.com]

someone can feel free to correct me if I'm at all wrong here, but wasn't paganism (probably spelt wrong) around before christianity? and wasn't also of whats in the bible taken from pagans?

[spiralwitch.livejournal.com]

well, i am no authority. however, yes paganism was around before christ was...but i don't think the bible was taken from pagans. mostly because the bible was written so long after christ died. a lot of the christian holidays are on pagan holidays (it was easier to convert people if they kept the sam holidays). but that's about all i know in that connection.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Yes and no. Polytheists dominated before Christ. The Bible was written by Christians and/or Hebrews; most (like the gospels) were written long after the fact.