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your hate mail, bitches. This is gonna be 1 of those.
I
was on my lunch break today, riding in my car, running some
errands & listening to The O’Franken Factor, Al
Franken’s talk show on Air America radio. As I await
Franken to take the air, the station has their quarterly
news report. I hear a piece in which a high ranking Vatican
official is asking priests to deny communion to pro-choice
Catholics. I felt a rant coming on. When a rant begins,
I don’t just sit down & write about it. What goes
on in my head is similar to Bill Bixby changing into The
Hulk. You won’t like me when I’m angry.
The
Catholic church is an institution, which is supposed to
teach the word of Jeebus, such as "love thy neighbor".
Well, if thy neighbor is your child, then the church is
all about loving them... hard. In the arms of the church,
all are welcome, except gays. They leave gays out. You’re
left out if you’ve been divorced too. They don’t
want you involved in their Sunday morning ceremonies. This
list of the excommunicated now includes anybody who believes
in a woman’s right to an abortion. No consecrated
Ritz cracker for you!
I
haven’t been to church for many years & it’s
been even longer since I’ve felt anything while I
was standing inside 1, but communion was never tasty. We
weren’t allowed to eat for an hour before receiving
the Eucharist. If you went to church first thing in the
morning, you’d be hungry. Then you’re given
a fucking wafer. That’s cruel & unusual. How about
some Tostitos to munch on while my stomach starts eating
itself?
My
problem with the church’s decision to exclude those
who are pro-choice is that it goes against Christ. Jeebus
hung out with whores & lepers & anybody who felt
like hearing him. The church won’t allow that. They
command you to think how they think believe what they believe
& never change your mind from what they say is right.
But life isn’t that cut & dry.
Furthermore,
this high ranking & unnamed Vatican official is a male
who has taken a vow of chastity, as have all priests, bishops,
cardinals & the fucking Pope. Let’s suppose, for
the sake of argument, that priests don’t fuck little
boys. Let’s say they adhere to their vow. That would
mean they don’t fuck. If they don’t have sex,
what business do they have to tell anyone about anything
involving sex? What makes them think their opinion on abortion
means fuck all? That’s like if I were to tell somebody
about transporting cattle over state lines. I’ve never
done that. I have little to tell anybody about it.
Let’s
see organized religion for what it is. All religions started
out as social guidelines during archaic times. Thousands
of years, dollars & folks who can’t handle their
own bullshit have made religion into poor thought control.
"Have
you ever noticed that most of the people who are against
abortion are people you wouldn’t wanna fuck in the
first place?"-George Carlin
"My
pussy, my choice!"-Tarrie B.
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