My comment: Growing up in the south, prior to Vatican II, I use to think that Protestants who were anti-Catholic were our biggest problem. Their version of it is like Mary Poppins compared to the outright war being waged against Catholics today by hate groups against the Church, the new KKK with the support of a so-called liberal newspaper. WOW!
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"It's time -- for liberal and nominal Catholics -- to quit the Catholic Church"
Indeed, why should non-believers pretend to be -- or be counted -- as Catholics? Diluting both the faith within the Church, and its credibility without. Wouldn't we be better off with them outside, rather than inside?
In any event, hasn't the faith always been most robust in times of persecution? If so, why not say ..... Bring it on!
This advertisement is apparently based on an “An Open Letter to Liberal Catholics,” authored by the co-President of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. In that letter the author characterizes the Roman Catholic Church as a “tyrannical and autocratic, woman-hating, sex-perverting, antediluvian Old Boys Club,” although some media reports inaccurately suggest this language is in the NYT ad itself (an internet search will readily verify these points). This is yet another example of the uncivil discourse about which I posted a comment yesterday, but this time it is from our political conversation (certainly not from within our religious conversation). It is a particularly execrable instance of discourse that “disrespects, derides, and even demonizes” as I put it yesterday. Such inflammatory discourse is horribly corrosive of our body politic. By all means let us disagree and try to persuade one another regarding various policies within the democratic political conversation, but can we please just stop talking about one another this way? And then perhaps we will actually be able to listen to one another and to try to understand why those with whom we disagree believe and feel as they do. Surely all of us, whether victors or losers in the ultimate decision-making, would be better off for doing so.
Anonymous, Did you just say something?
Hate speech? Sure, maybe. But I agree with the misguided author. It is time, well past actually, for these nominal Catholics to "get the Hell out". Come back when you have a clue, or don't come back.
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