Reply #29: Well, this might explain why he participated in a faith-based election, [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

run by Bushite electronic voting corporations, using TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, with virtually no audit/recount controls, and never suspected that anything might be amiss. If you support the entirely undemocratic, monolithic, anti-half the population, Roman Catholic Church, that kind of "election" might make sense to you. God fingers the "winner," with Diebold and ES&S as His Instruments.

I have nothing at all against Catholics. I have considerable reason to believe that rank and file Catholics are a potentially great progressive force. But John Kerry touting his Roman Catholic faith is something else entirely. It gives legitimacy to this heinous male hierarchy which seized the true Christian religion back in the 5th century AD, and turned it to the purpose of state-imposed thought and baptism by the sword--a right turn away from Jesus' teachings that you can follow straight through the witch-burnings, book-burnings, pogroms, inquisitions, bloody crusades and other wars, all the way to the present "pope" and his inflammatory remarks about Islam.

Kerry should be DISAVOWING this male hierarchy--and the current "pope"'s stirring up of "crusader" bloodshed--instead of lending support to it, by implication. His faith may be personal, but his public position is not. It is a position that WE GAVE HIM--we, the people, in all of our variety of beliefs or non-belief. I DO understand what some posters have said above, about trying to rescue Christianity from the bloody-minded fascists, warmongers and corporatists who are using it to justify mass murder, torture, greed and oppression. And I was torn about posting this objection. I know what you're saying. And, generally, I support such outreach. But there are ISSUES here, with this Church--SERIOUS issues--in the way it is organized, and what its exclusively male hierarchy preaches. They not only exclude all women from positions of power, they not only have scandalized the world with the prevalence of child molesters in their midst, they have crossed over the line on political issues, and are meddling in the affairs of democratic countries, here and elsewhere, in sometimes truly heinous ways--for instance, their stance against condoms in the fight against AIDS, and their lobbying against ALL abortions, no matter what has happened to the woman or girl. A man like Kerry is most certainly giving an implicit endorsement of these views by speaking about his faith in public at a rightwing university. He may think it's outreach. I find it offensive--and it gives me that queasy feeling I get around these "little lord" priests who swish through their fetishistic performances at the altar, in their satin and lace, between rounds of golf. They are a boys' club, and a quite sick one at that.

Christianity, yes. "Love thy neighbor." Yes. To be perfect, give all you have to the poor and "come follow me." Yes. But dictating "doctrine"? Anathematizing "heretics"? Accumulating vast property holdings? Holding debates about whether or not women have souls? Saying that women can't be priests because they don't PHYSICALLY RESEMBLE Jesus, i.e., don't have a prick? (--the last "pope" said that!). Powermongering and warmongering? NO! And these latter things are what the Roman Catholic Church--in its unbelievable arrogance and sacrilege and crime and sin--have come to stand for. It is time for all sincere Catholics to utterly reject these tendencies, and reform this Church. And politicians pandering to it, even with good motives, doesn't help.