Another how very very SPECIAL.

“Reporter Paul Vitello shows the shocking extent of child sexual abuse in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community. He also details the cover-ups that have long been aided and abetted by law enforcement.
Where have all the church-and-state advocates been all these years when Orthodox rabbis were allowed by the D.A.’s office to settle these cases “internally”?
Where have all the professional victims’ groups been in staging protests outside synagogues?
Where have all the sue-happy lawyers been seeking to plunder the Orthodox?
Where have all the comedians and late-night entertainers been in cracking jokes about rabbis raping kids?

and this bit from slate: Should the USA allow cases of child rape in rabbinical court?
In the UK we only allow cases of a criminal nature to be heard in State criminal courts, however it seems that in the USA you have had Jewish “Beth Din” courts for decades.

Isn’t that special?

(Mind you, not that I think that any of the other churches or religions are any better, really, it’s all about power and money and keeping the desperate people “content” with their lives and spreading ignorance and despair, masquerading as contentness and fullness of life).

You know, burning at stake, as was done to Giordano Bruno in Lord’s year 1600, another independent thinker of Galileo’s time. Or to gazillions of “witches”. Let’s not mention the crusades or the inquisition. Or the endless wars and instability in Europe that the pope was the chief instigator of? Or the various pogroms of the Jews and others. How a mere possession of a “forbidden book” could land you in a big pot of boiling oil.

Let’s even forget the shameful conduct of this church (as well as others) in WW2 and immediately after. Where was their high morality then, their condemnation of wars, killing and suffering?

“I loved the bit about Pope Benedict’s reminders of the Church’s traditional social teaching and his opposition to US wars being “irrelevant”.” I am sure this pope, as all others, are oh so moral and able to preach to us mere mortals about our sins (never about THEIR sins), which, to be sure, are plenty. Good for him I say.

But not a pipsqueak from him (or his predecessor) about the scandalous behavior of his church in OUR times (let us forget the past unforgivables, for which they should be quiet as a mouse for the next 10,000 years at least). You know, their priests raping (mostly) young defenseless boys, by the zillions, and then being shuttled from one church to the next, to repeat their crimes, and being protected by the church in any imaginable way, in an “us vs. them” attitude and to hell with morality. As a matter of fact, this pope actively erected a wall of silence and refusal to even apologize.

But that of course, mostly happened in the US (or is mostly talked about here), so who cares. Fuck the defenseless US boys, right Mike, they are evil because they were born in the wrong country. So they deserve what they got. Right in keeping with your view of the world. The moralizing hypocrisy knows no bounds, right Mike?

And of course, the high moral ground of promoting poverty and despair the world over by their ludicrous anti birth control preaching.

http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/when-the-pope-came-to-america/

“It would be false to pretend that the entire reason for the growing disenchantment of conservative Anglicans is the election of an openly gay bishop to head the Episcopal Church in the United States. However, it is safe to say that this election was the straw that broke the proverbial camels back for those members.”

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There is a mistake in there. Bishop Gene Robinson is *not* the head of the Episcopal Church here in the States. Katharine Jefferts Schori is the presiding Bishop.

Gene Robinson is the openly gay ninth bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire. I think that is the person the author is referring to when he writes, ” …the election of an openly gay bishop.” However, Gene Robinson is *not* the head of the Episcopal church here in the States.

I was brought up Catholic in the Fifties, and included in the Catholic school system’s mileau of emotional and physical abuse, disguised as discipline, was a heavy dose of rigid, shaming, guilt-inducing sexual rules one could never keep. As one example: before we had any idea of masturbating, as preadolescents, we were even forbidden to put our hands in our pockets as we walked, being told by constantly angry, sexually repressed nuns that it was a “near occasion of sin” in which we might play with ourselves. Then, of course, there was direct sexual abuse with the psychological sexual abuse and the daily diet of humiliation and poisonous pedagogy (See Alice Miller).

It is a sick irony that at the same time Benedikt stands accused (with a good amount of evidence to back the accusations) that as Cardinal Ratzinger he directly interfered with the ability of US law enforcement officials to detect and prosecute pedophile Catholic priests, he also has no qualms about trying to amp up discrimination against the GLBT community in order to gain bodies, and income, from bigoted Anglicans just as the GLBT liberation movements are seeing some successes.

And bozh nails it again.

Love,
Melissa

Now that’s what I call leading the opposition.

The difference btwn my feeling-thinking and pious people’s is in the main that i do not posit knowledge a priori; i.e., knowing before experiencing.

So we all are feeling-thinking-speaking where feelings influence our thinking and thinking our choice of words and vice versa. There is no separation of these aspects of being; it is really one entity.

Nobody had seen [experienced] god, soul, angels, satan. No one will ever see them. So why chase after illusions? And, to boot, a pack of snark chasers hating, killing, oppressing packs of other chasers for the snark?

Is it any wonder that with people studying unseeables instead of seeing the seeables such as wars, poverty that we have just that! tnx