Posted by
Republiservative on Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:09:20 PM
Ever since Obama (a man Gingrich, Novak et al even concede will be nominated and elected, via Townhall Spotlights and such), Bill Maher, PFAW, et al started up anti-Catholic talk as they did, I've been on a sincere quest to divine from competent authority if it's true the Eternal Word the Roman Catholic Church taught me and sells me via EWTN and local RC Churches actually IS eternal (as a New Testament)...true, I can get wordy and artful myself, but the essence of query is always present.
From EWTN, nothing; from USCCB, nothing; from my local RC Church, nothing; from my archdiocese, nothing...but I report that as of yesterday I appear to have been auto-labelled spam by the proprietary system of email used by the Chicago Archdiocese...that's curious, as just yesterday I received yet another Annual Appeal pledge reminder from same archdiocese, just like I keep getting mailings from EWTN re video missionaries...and the archdiocese will not guarantee money will be spent on teachings as those I hear in my RC Church on weekends; e.g., so what if homosexualty is actually offered not only as a gender but teachable life style, or many abortions can be admirable, and maybe Christ isn't present in Eucharists?
What I have, therefore, is absolutely no denial to my belief this "eternal word" as we've heard it for 2,000 years IS incorrect, and will involve assorted Christian faith leaders "in costume" and amid "decorations" confraternally seeking to breed-out and re-educate those who still believe in what they themselves would not defend...an admirable and wholly acceptable re-write into complete conceptualization of Christ as a mere philosophy rather than philosopher, as God so moves such doges or athesitic moralists, then, opine. However, it's cheesey if not legally dubious to solicit/take my money on a Benedict XVI pretext, when even HE is not interferring with the money then going to other than promised to my personal understanding or against my benefit...e.g., have I ever gone to an Assembly of God or New Age or other Church? No, so why would I be upset if yet another even RC clergy sprang forth boldly proclaiming my faith is that of a fool, rube, heretic, whatever...I'd just say "oops!", find the door, stay out.
Orignally, Roman Catholicism was something I trusted due to my own innate and natural stoicism...I don't SEEK evil to fight, where not lawfully employed to do so, and would help those in true hardship anyway...certainly, I've never asked the faith, race, gender, sexual persuasion of anyone I pulled from a wreck or fire or such, even though I desire no relationship with them beyond that any more than I expect reward...so my character remains untethered to any need to practice faith, the only one I shall ever have had interest in being declared a false eternal dogma.
I still don't think Benedict XVI's catechism as a dry human philosophy without divine inspiration, then, is a bad one, and in that spirit it's what I'll keep for myself without attention to the obviously false and avoidable divine parts. Surely, any RC is free to boldly demand our country breed-out anyone by any devisements who clings to superstition of false words; but where that extends into "...AND if need be out-breed in nature of acquiescing to demands of Latin leaders, al-Qaeda, and such...and use false word clingers' cash to boot!", well, the pesky Constitution is there, and really...how many Hispanics find it muy bueno to dream of their dictator's or worse conditions manifesting permanently in the Estados Unidos?
Wherefore, on such considerations aforesaid, I hereby permanently renounce and quit all interest in the Roman Catholic Church other than the Benedict XVI catechism as said; I wish the "same old clothes/new ideas" art of the remaining RC's luck in their endeavors; I think if the Chinese feel detained clergy had fleecing/out-breeding as mens rea they should try them, and if no mens rea release them; I quit interest in the Rosary and have tossed it in the trash heap, being derived from an uncontested false "Word" and thus of no more value than moldy bread; with the same stoicism as in all my life, with no malice or other care I will live and politic as always in traditional political-legal ways only; and I wish to herbey notify EWTN to remove me from video missionaries, all email lists, and maybe someone could tell the local archdiocese it can save cost/efforts by removing my name from its rolls, memberships, and Annual Appeal data...only if I receive another email or USPS piece from such bait-and-switch artists will I proceed to legal complaint(s) with proper authorities, and I promise not to email religious outfits as there's nothing of interest anyway.