Reply #35: While I Don't Celebrate His Passing [View All]

[Me.]

I was never a fan, primarily for the reasons stated in the Fox piece. Personally I feel it is twilight for the Catholic Church, their numbers are steadily dwindling and their philosophies reflect nothing of the practicality needed to live and survive in the modern world. Population control is a must, and women will have their day. These are realities, amongst others, the church must face. And if I hear one more cleric state the church is not a democracy I shall scream. What they forget when parroting that shibboleth is that there must be a hold, a draw, something to attract people to their church. For in a world where parents can't afford to take care of dozens of children, where millions of orphans are being created due to aids, where the murder rate is highest among pregnant women, and people are told they are wicked for feeling and expressing the love that is innate in them, the insistence of adhering to mandates set out by men who have no real association or experience with life as most humans in the world know it, has very little value. And frankly, I don't need to be told how to live my life or relate to God by yet another elderly, dyspeptic man wearing an elaborate dress.