tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16285355.post8025944712972905294..comments2024-03-19T01:00:20.106-04:00Comments on The Latin Americanist: Brazil: Raped girl aborts twinsErwin C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15962556587313982096noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16285355.post-22268267213358159182009-03-14T02:31:00.000-04:002009-03-14T02:31:00.000-04:00A monstrosity over much of its history. It, the V...A monstrosity over much of its history. It, the Vatican, bent only on total power and dominance and control, is what needs to be aborted. And look where it's current leader got his early training in life.<BR/><BR/>It is time for the men in fancy dresses to be sent packing where they belong - in the stone age.<BR/><BR/>So glad I and my whole family left this big house of horrors. At least, my kids weren't raped by the perverts the church created with its puritanical attitudes on sex. And then blamed on gays, forgetting that 99.9% of all such acts are by heterosexuals.<BR/><BR/>And then the church hid its crimes for decades. The Vatican and it's hierarchy should be excommunicated from existance<BR/><BR/>And then maybe the good priests can modernize the church. But we are not holding our breath, we left long ago - almost the whole extended family. Free at last, Free at last, Free at last. (I borrow the words of a good man who was murdered by another spinoff of the church, the independent right wing christian churches and so. Baptists who gave us slavery and segregation.) Thank God Almighty we are free at last.SteveMD2https://www.blogger.com/profile/08708307604209488249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16285355.post-17942160201466556082009-03-11T07:02:00.000-04:002009-03-11T07:02:00.000-04:00Thank you Gregory Greene. You've laid out the mos...Thank you Gregory Greene. You've laid out the most reasonable argument I've ever seen. I'll check out your book.Vickihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10518892652828888610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16285355.post-69791562672249666062009-03-06T14:24:00.000-05:002009-03-06T14:24:00.000-05:00The archbishop refers to God's Law. However, abor...The archbishop refers to God's Law. However, abortion is nowhere forbidden in the Bible; indeed, it isn't even mentioned. So the Church applies the fifth commandment: Thou shalt not kill. Look who's talking--the Catholic Church ranks right behind folks like Nero, Caligula, Hitler, and Stalin when it comes to killing those who have disagreed with it over the centuries. If the Church had had its way, the girl would have died a slow and painful death, with her twins, when they would have grown too big for her little body. Killed by the Church, all three of them. Thou shalt not kill, indeed.<BR/><BR/>The mother and the doctors have been excommunicated. But not the stepfather, he who broke an actual command in God's Law: Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. (Lev. 18:17) The punishment to be administered is spelled out in clear: Everyone who does any of these detestable things—such persons must be cut off from their people. (Lev. 18:29) Excommunication, that is. Commanded in God's Law, but not carried out by the Church, because the poor sinner is a man. In the eyes of the Church, he's still a Catholic in good standing.<BR/><BR/>The misogynism of conservative so-called Christians comes from the same Middle Eastern tradition as that of conservative Muslims like the Taleban: Woman, even at nine years old, is but a vessel meant to bear sons for a man. She has no rights, particularly not over her own body. If there are complications with a pregnancy and a choice has to be made, always let the woman die: she has no value.<BR/><BR/>For more on failed religious institutions, read my free book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com