Posted on 04/03/2011 6:33:28 AM PDT by marshmallow
She has a hangup with anything less than pure evil being an affront to her “artistic sense”. When you spend your life enshrining “eternally” murderous, blood sucking, admittedly evil, vampires, I guess the failings of less than perfect humans really ticks you off.
I don’t understand why Catholics defend the sex-abusers because the ones being abused are usually young Catholics...not Methodists or Episcopalians!
I read Interview with the Vampire at the urging of a couple of friends, and finished it feeling somewhat unclean, though I had to admit that it was skillfully written. I hold Anne Rice personally responsible for the modern rehabilitation and romanticization of the vampire, and the vampire role-playing subcultures, and Twilight and its progeny and imitators. I am sick to the back teeth of vampires.
I was--foolishly, I suppose--hopeful at the news of Rice's return to Christianity, not seeing things as a paradigm-shifting literary celebrity like Rice would see it: that the Church was just one more paradigm that she felt that she was able to shift, 'cause, like, people looked up to her and junk, 'cause she was important and popular, and she imagined that the Church was (or ought to be) a grassroots-run organization whose dogma and policy were determined by popular vote as informed by an information medium largely hostile to the Church--and which had (perhaps coincidentally) been largely responsible for her own success and fame, as well as her world-view and her view of the Church (or what she thought of as the Church).
Imagine her surprise and dismay, then, to discover that the two-thousand-year-old Church would not give way to a writer of vampire best-sellers, and that "the people in the pews"--among whom she was certain to have fans--weren't as pliant as she had hoped, and might have other reasons for being there than to be in the sort of church that she insisted on if she were to condescend to return to it.
but she need to shut the h*ll up. Or grow the h*ll up: either one will suit.
The Catholic church is corrupt.
except that it's good for people, whereas the mafia, not so much.
I'm thinking God was the originator, though, and the mafia, a cheap (if you'll pardon the pun), umm, knockoff.
How dare you smear catholics with your own personal hate towards them! Prove it or retract it !
invincibly’s reply:
Proof is all over the FR. I’m not going to do your research for ya. Everytime a pervert Priest article is posted ya’ll are exercised. Kinda like you are now
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then your accusations are totally worthless, leaving you with the value of a tRoll....or perhaps an anticatholic drone.
LOL—why haven’t you accucumulated a “cache” by now to simply pull up and POST ? names and all ?
***”Catholics on these boards defend sex abuse”.***
>>”you got that right.”>>>
YOU GOT THAT WRONG! Marshmallow did NOT make that statement. She was quoting others to indicate the ignorant statement.
Anything you say about the Catholic Church in this matter applies equally to any group of people you care to mention.
But the Catholic Church is evil.
Makes sense to idiots, I guess.
That's a good point, and it helps to keep things in perspective.
But the Church needs to hold itself to a higher standard. People in Europe are drifting away from the Church, and the abuse scandal is certainly one of the reasons.
This is disastrous. As I mentioned in my post #17 above, the West needs the strong, unifying influence of the Church.
But I don't yet see the Church making all the moves it needs to cleanse itself.
The Catholic is the perfect religion practiced by imperfect people. In spite of good and bad people it will be here until the end of time. That it has lasted for 2000 years manifests that.
Looking at people missed the point. It isn’t people that makes the Catholic religion great. It is the Real Presence of the Body and Blood of Jesus.
That's straight out of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals
Rule #4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."
Congratulations upon being a radical enemy of the Catholic Church. An unwitting, unaware, easily deceived one, but an enemy nonetheless.
Excellent post #23.
That has been done hundreds of times both by the hierarchy and here on Free Republic but is never acknowledged. Some are so twisted by hatred of the Catholic Church that they want to believe that it is by nature a criminal organization. No actions to clean out those criminals who have acted against the teachings and morals of the Church will ever satisfy them.
The fact that this has happened or is happening, is not the source of the controversy. The appearance of protecting them from being held to account is the source. I’ve understood that the Catholic Church has taken steps to rectify this, and that is a very good thing. Cases still keep cropping up, or apparently so, and so the upset and anger continues. Condemn it in no uncertain terms and point out these steps that are being taken. Beyond that, any human institution is going to be subject to occasional human failings as a result of sin. Make it very plain that it is in no way condoned or concealed. That’s all I can say.
We need to pray for Anne Rice.
She did become a Catholic or at least a Christian at one time. Have you read her book, “Jesus Christ, Out of Egypt?” It’s a novel about the childhood of Christ and is quite well documented.
However, as I understand it, she has gone back to her atheism and vampire novel mode. So, yes, she needs prayers.
Isn’t that making it personal — but I see you didn’t name names!!>>&)U)^^%%
Proof please.
I read more articles about people in some (Note I said “some” Protestant churches, taking money, cheating in other ways.
Prove it or retract it. You can’t put the entire Catholic Church in one bucket. But maybe you are a dimocrat.
Because they're all over the FR. Take the blinders off and read. Perhaps then you'll lose your Catholic jihadism.
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