Imagine that one day you find your friend making horrible racist remarks towards someone else you care about.

You protest, saying that’s not a decent way to act, and they tell you that if you don’t hate black people, you shouldn’t consider them your friend.

Now that’s a lot of things, and none of them nice in the least… but it’s not bullying.

Your friend can’t bully you, because he has renounced all his leverage over you. If he’s that committed to racial hatred, then his friendship is *already* worth precisely nothing.

Like the old joke says, we’ve already established what you are, now we’re just dickering over the price.

“Support my racist assholery, or I won’t let you be the friend of a racist a*****e!”

“Ooh gee, that’s such a hard choice, I’m going to need to take some time to think this over, not. Now get the hell out of my life.”

With this statement, the catholic church has renounced its moral authority over just about anyone at all.

Now personally I’d have said it did so long *long* before, by its obscene wealth in the face of poverty, by its enabling and support of paedophiles, by the Magdalene laundries, hell, even by the Spanish inquisition, but I digress.

It’s shown its true ugliness in a way that finally clicks with you. And it’s shown that it values that ugliness over you, and over whatever good it was meant to be doing you.

IT HAS NOTHING OF VALUE TO TAKE FROM YOU. It is worthless at best. You don’t need or want anything it has to give.

Damn right you ought not be a member of the catholic church – and you should be PROUD of that fact.

If anything, you should thank them for opening your eyes.