Comments on: TWO Applauds Daniel Avila’s Resignation From U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

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[...] Dan Avila, then serving as the USCCB’s “Policy Advisor for Marriage and Family,” resigned in disgrace after TWO and many other groups condemned him for writing that homosexuality was caused [...]

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By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:54:28 +0000

I meant to say “at least when it’s NOT injurious to others”

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:53:33 +0000

ok, oldbaldguy, that makes sense. But don’t you find their idiotic worldview to be comical too, at least it’s NOT injurious to others, like when the fanatics blamed the tsunami and nuclear disaster on Japan for not being a Christian nation and – get this – because the emperor apparently had illicit sex with the Sun Goddess. The deluded nut job who dreamed-up that classic bit of idiocy also claimed that the earthquake which caused the tsunami opened a portal to Hell releasing the very demon who was responsible for the Nazi holocaust. oooooooh! Now that’s just hilarious to me because those warped a******s actually believe that nonsense. I mean how f*****g crazy do you have to be to take that comic book story seriously?

Nonetheless, your point is well taken, they’re not just fools – they’re dangerous fools. I’d bet some of them even long for the old days when they could burn sinners and nonbelievers at the stake!

By: OldBaldGuy

OldBaldGuy — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:39:18 +0000

To be clear, above post is response to Bemjamin.

By: OldBaldGuy

OldBaldGuy — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:38:05 +0000

If the a**hole Avila were just some loon in the corner mumbling incoherently to himself, sure, I think I could afford to laugh at him. It’s offensive to me, first of all, because his ranting is so disconnected from reality, and secondly, because other people are LISTENING to him. It’s not just the disrepect, it’s the abuses of us that are justified because of this profound lack of respect.

The offense gets played out in real and damaging ways in our lives and is a result of this kind of crap being floated out there. If the devil made me, then why should you give a flying f*** about any part of my life?

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:39:22 +0000

I understand that some people are deeply offended by this, but it’s hard to see why that is so. To me, it just seems too funny to get offended over. I mean this guys explanation of gays sounds really f*****g nuts, and the same goes for the bishops who fired his dumb a*s. It doesn’t make a bit of difference to me if they have a different theological explanation than his crazy idea because I know that their explanation is just as f*****g crazy although in an insignificantly (to any rational person) different way.

To be more precise, I consider all such explanations to be as bizarre as any psychotic’s delusions (but the theologians are not technically mentally ill, or I would not mock them), rather I consider these fools to be self-deluded, which is actually a worse fate in my opinion than genuine mental illness because it’s self-inflicted.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:57:33 +0000

Gary, you are sounding like the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican.
Don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back.
I don’t follow religious news much but didn’t the Episcopal church have a split recently over the “gay” issue? Sounds like some Episcopalians are indeed intolerant.

By: Gary (NJ)

Gary (NJ) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:25:13 +0000

Memeplexes, my (Episcopal) church is not dangerous nonsense. We run a soup kitchen, a food cupboard for those who don’t have enough money to buy sufficient groceries, run a meeting place where the homeless can talk and get a hot lunch everyday, we just started a high caliber school for disadvantaged children (in an abandoned inner city church), run a summer camp for these same kids every summer, have helped homeless families get furnished (by us) apartments that they can afford, visit the elderly in their homes and nursing homes and just sent a medical mission to rural Honduras; and we also run a low to no-cost clinic for those who are too poor to have insurance or pay for medical care. This clinic is run *gratis* by a group of physicians and nurses and a woman priest from our church. How many people have you ever helped or volunteered to assist?
And on the aesthetic side, we have restored and helped save beautiful old gothic architecture churches as well as the most sublimely beautiful music, art and liturgy that have come down to us from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It’s a weekly oasis of majesty and peace in a crazy world of fleeting pleasures, and cheesy, banal ‘art’ and entertainment. WE are not the ‘dangerous’ ones, but it sounds like your call for ‘intolerance’ certainly is!