![]() ![]() … Not enough proselytizers seem to have read the Bible all the way through, and even if they have, they relish picking out the supposedly hateful parts to make trouble with, twisting them for maximum effect. … The church reserves the divine right to further wreck lives by forbidding condoms and abortions.Įvery Wednesday afternoon, I loathed being dragged out of school to go to catechism and be taught scary fairy tales by forbidding nuns. … The church urges us to be good citizens, but when gay marriage goes into law, they suddenly want people to buck the system. ![]() … The church blames internal pedophilia on gays, but then when gays get the right to marry in a healthy, adult, consensual way, the church vehemently condemns it. The virgin birth put an impossibly high standard on the rest of us for all time. You have to keep track of your sins and then humiliatingly recite them in a loud, crisp voice, so the priest doesn’t say, “Repeat that, please.” … Eternal damnation in hell is held up as a scare tactic to make you behave the way the church wants. … No one seems to remember that, unlike being gay, it’s a choice. Because … I already feel guilty writing this column.
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