I’ve always see a catch-22 in the worship of false gods and this is the reason I generally get past the ‘I don’t know stage’ of religious belief and forever trapped in the purgatory of an agnostic soul. Pedophilia in the Catholic Church has made the news again and will continue to do so because of the bureaucratic style of governance deployed by that particular faction of religion. Protestants groups who branched off the Presbyterian movement (in 16th century Scotland) vote for their leaders and don’t have a large bureaucratic layer in which to protect loathsome pedophiles in such the way the Catholic Church does. Yes, pedophiles can be found in Protestant churches but system doesn’t off great ability to cover-up such actions. Religions are the oldest hate groups so I find it fair to throw a bit of hate back on certain issues
I without a doubt throw hate at the Catholic Church, but I attack their management style not their theistic belief. The Catholic Church is a hate group which never would have offered the Protestants gave when establishing American rights. I’ve also come to hate White-elitist Liberal Jews because they are awfully ‘anti’ to Protestants. Israel is a Jewish state, but the Protestants never dip past the deist level when crafting America—yeah, they put in that ‘in God we trust ‘ line, but they didn’t force Christ down people’s throats so those of Jewish or Muslim belief can feel just as comfortable in saying, ‘in God we trust’. Jews in the America’s entertainment industry love to make up antisemitic characters but anti-Semites in America are an extreme minority Jews show a lot of anti-Protestant views but Protestants don’t reciprocate. The International fellowship of Christians and Jews run a barrage commercials asking Christians to help Jews in the Ukraine and Israel–would they be doing that in an antisemitic country? No; thus the antisemitic stereotyping is the true hate-speech and that comes from those White-elitist Liberal Jews in Hollywood. My Protestant relatives on my dad’s side of the family are not hateful of anybody and don’t deserve the stereotyping which often come with being Southern. My mom’s side of the family is more complicated and the mixed race family in Peter Matthiessen’s trilogy which begins with Killing Mr. Watson is a must read, in understanding their attitudes.
The two large sects of Judaism were the hate groups to Jesus’s sect, the Essene’s (I did a post–The Jewish Sect of Jesus) Christians led by the Catholic Church flipped the tables an went back at Judaism Protestants tried a more moderate approach, but they in turn are often attacked in the country they but and none serve on the fully Jewish-Catholic Supreme Court. and only the un-Protestant Episcopalians have serve in recent years. My novels revolve around the warring factions in my ancestry and how they came together in Florida. My blogging ability has been limited when I didn’t sign up for a new internet service after my modem died. I most likely will move in the coming year and I just settle with my cell phone limits. Yeah, I could be more active but it’s hard to be motivated when I don’t average much more than a dozen hits a day.
