Holy Mother-Fucker The Church

Warning for the faint-of-heart: If you didn’t like the title, you’re going to really hate the content herein – so you might want to mosey on over to a site (which I’m sure exists somewhere on the internetz) where you can post your confession, along with a heartfelt-type Act of Contrition, and be given an appropriate penance for having opened this thread in the first place.

Just when you thought the Catholic Church couldn’t get any more hypocritical than it’s been for the last two thousand years, you come across a news piece like this http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontp...
and you wonder, yet again, how a religion allegedly based on the teachings of The Nazarene ever wound up adopting the doctrine of “Do unto the Little Children as you would have done to the worst torture-supporting war criminal you can possibly imagine – and then some.”

Apparently, Catholic Archbishop José Cardoso Sobrinho of Olinda and Recife “has sparked controversy in Brazil by saying the mother of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion on Wednesday following a rape is automatically excommunicated for allowing the procedure to go ahead.”

Way to go, your esteemed archbishop-prick (that is the correct form of address, is it not?) Wouldn't want to OFFEND.

I think it only fair to point out that after an internet search, I couldn’t find ONE FUCKIN’ WORD about how outraged you were when the church was embroiled in allegations of child molestation perpetrated by pedophile priests on vulnerable children of both sexes. Just a Google oversight, to be sure – or maybe you should be dipping into the collection plate for a better publicist.

So now you’re going about excommunicating the people who have tried, to the best of their ability, to undo the damage done to a NINE-YEAR-OLD PREGNANT RAPE VICTIM. Hey, Your Holier Than Thou-ness, ever considered the fact that – according to the tenets of the religion you espouse to act for – it is the innocent who are to be protected rather than punished?

Jesus Hussein Christ, where the fuck were you and your self-righteous ilk when innocents were being tortured and slain in Iraq and Afghanistan – and all over the world? Oh, that’s right – you were busy covering-up the crimes of Holy Mother-Fucker The Church. Sins of Omission and Commission – a tidy little package of immorality that could be swept from the global soul with a novena murmured in a back pew – accompanied by a substantial financial contribution, just to make true contrition “official” and all.

“The CHILD was raped by her stepfather, who has since admitted abusing her over the last three years. Abortion is generally illegal in Brazil but allowed in cases of rape or when the pregnancy endangers the mother’s life.”

“The CHILD entered hospital in the northeastern city of Recife on Tuesday night, where she was given medication to interrupt the pregnancy, which doctors said was terminated by early Wednesday morning. She was pregnant with twins."

"The archbishop’s statements have drawn condemnation from Brazilian politicians and caused disquiet among some theologians concerned by the difficulties raised by the case."

God, give me strength

“But Archbishop Cardoso Sobrinho has denied media reports that he personally ordered the excommunications. ‘I simply recalled what is in church canon law. Excommunication is automatic for those who participate in an abortion. I did not excommunicate anyone, just remembered the church’s law which says they are automatically excommunicated,’ he said.”

You “simply recalled”? Where was your power of simple recall when thousands of victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests finally came forward and told their stories? Or were you too busy scrambling to find a heretofore unpublished portion of the Sermon on the Mount – the part where Christ said, “And Blessed are those who look the other way, and settle out-of-court, for Theirs is the Kingdom of Hypocrisy”?

“The doctor who carried out the procedure has defended his actions. ‘If the pregnancy had continued, the damage would have been worse, being a high risk pregnancy. The risk would have been of death or at the very least that she would never have been able to become pregnant again,’ Dr Olímpio Moraes told O Globo newspaper.”

One can only wonder how long, had the CHILD survived full-term pregnancy and childbirth, it would have taken a cretin like you to pronounce her “unworthy” marriage material because she couldn’t fulfill her God-given mandate of procreating as part of her conjugal duties. Because producing children is the be-all and end-all of what marriage is about, isn’t that right – Your Archbishop-prick?

“There are two legal justifications for abortion envisioned by the law, which are rape and risk to life. She falls within the two and, as a doctor, I could not let a girl of nine years be submitted to this suffering and even pay with her own life.”

Well, no doubt God is gonna get a doctor who thinks that protecting the life of a NINE YEAR OLD CHILD is more important than – oh, I’m suddenly at a loss here. More important than WHAT, according to you?

“But Archbishop Cardoso Sobrinho has dismissed the fact that the abortion was legal under Brazilian law as irrelevant to the question of excommunication. ‘God’s law is above whatever human law. So when a human law is contrary to God’s law, this human law has no value,’ he said.

Well, I gotta agree with you there, Archbishop-prick Sobrino. God’s law is above human law – and I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around whatever “law” it is you and your kind are passing off as God’s law.

I’ve read the New Testament back to front, and I don’t remember an admonishment that NINE YEAR OLD RAPE VICTIMS, or those who help them, should be subject to excommunication – or any fate that doesn’t include protection from criminals, and the prosecution of same to the fullest extent of the law – secular or religious law, as the case may be.

I write this in the knowledge that I will make not enemies, but friends, among the Catholic community – because I am talking about “Catholics” in the true sense of the word, those who adhere to the Word of Christ - who are as appalled by your words and actions as any human being with a modicum of empathy and a sense of true justice would be.

You might want to read the words of Jesus sometime, when you can spare a minute from being a hypocritical asshole. They are truly inspiring, and have absolutely nothing to do with what you’ve said, or who you have shown yourself to be.

And if you still have a conscience, you might want to start doing a good examination thereof right about now.

You fuckin’ prick.