2010: The Abuse and Insult Continue
How about this latest instance of the “good news” and the “loving” message of Jesus Christ from the Catholic Church:
The Guardian today reports that “Revised Catholic rules put female ordination in same category of crime under church law as clerical sex abuse of minors”: Vatican makes attempted ordination of women a grave crime
Why not legislate that Catholic women should wear burqas too? That should really make the position quite clear. And before you cry that there is no similarity, I ask you to consider this more deeply:
- They are both rules made by men in power
- To ensure that women never have power
- On the basis that a masculine god-construct said so
- And that men are supposedly better rulers of themselves and of others
- And that women are supposedly mentally and emotionally weaker than men
- And that women exercising power are more dangerous than men exercising power
- Despite the negative examples of enormous bad done by powerful men
- And the positive examples of enormous good done by powerful women
One’s gender does not define one’s morality or one’s capacity, even physically. For every strong man there is one who is weaker than a woman. For every weak woman there is one who is stronger than a man. And in all issues of conscience and character, any person has the potential to grow stronger or weaker. We are what we choose to be, not what religion or any man says we must be.
The gospel that the church claims it was commissioned to preach is the gospel of love. Why can we never feel or hear or experience that love amongst the welter of prohibitions and condemnations that exercise religious minds? Do any of them actually believe that Jesus came to set the world free? Or is love just so hard that no one is actually capable of it?
It is so much easier just to legislate and condemn and blame anyone other than oneself for sin … man has been doing it since Adam and it looks like the Catholic Church has learned nothing since then. Didn’t Jesus say, “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone…”?
Tia Azulay 15Jul10 Copyright © 2010 Tia Azulay