I have always been ambivalent about the Catholic Church. On the one hand, many Catholics are wonderful people and have done wonderful things. On the other hand, slavery, misogyny, homophobia, covered up pedophilia, the Crusades, Indulgences, the Inquisition, oh, and this commercial where they have the gall to showcase how "varied" their religion is, because they totally didn't enslave 90% of the cultures in the ad and force them to take Catholicism on pain of death, right? But seriously, I was raised quasi-Catholic, as in I had all the sacraments and such but we didn't always go to Church, so I've always been ambivalent about it and religion in general. Up until today I figured that religion was really up to each individual and though I didn't much care for institutionalized religion, it couldn't be that bad, right? Wrong.
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| "I consent, as an informed, free individual, to abandon my own religion and culture in favor of yours." - Atahualpa |
Some of you may have already heard of the nine-year-old who was excommunicated this week after aborting the twins her stepfather had raped into her 80lb body. Doctors performed the abortion because the pregnancy "posed a serious risk to the girl". This is all perfectly legal in Brazil, who despite their resistance to Choice has allowances in cases of rape and danger to the mother - both of which apply here. The Catholic Church, however, feels that the rape of a child wasn't enough (not that they really mind child rape anyway), no, she needed to carry the twins to term and live the rest of her life with a Cesarean scar to remind her every day of the trauma she went through for the peace of mind of a bunch of Deacons in their dusty palace several thousand miles away. They tried barring the abortion, but when the Brazilian government turned them down, they did the only thing in their power - the excommunicated the girl, her family, and the doctors who performed the procedure. No, not the rapist. The nine-year-old.
| While we're at it, let's just go ahead and excommunicate all victims of child abuse. Those sluts. |
All of this wouldn't be so bad if Religiously Oriented "news" source didn't keep popping the word "allegedly" in front of the rape in their reports of this story. A nine-year-old cannot consent to sex. There is no alleging anything. She was raped by her stepfather. On the lighter side, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life has defended the young girl and condemned the decision to excommunicate her... but the Pope still supports this atrocity.
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| Don't blame us! It's your fault you got raped. You don't have a say any more. |
My head is positively reeling. I am in a blind rage and I can barely type I'm so angry. This is the ultimate hypocrisy and one of the most evil, misogynistic things I have ever heard of. How about you skip mass this Sunday and think about that instead?
