I’ve often pondered why the Catholic Church gets a bad rap when it comes to commenting on issues of societal, or even politically important matters. There’s always some group or groups out there which will express outrage at some stance taken by the Church, and the usual secular condemnation comes spewing forth from their one sided mouths, getting their point across while at the same time demonizing the church.
No other religion is trashed repeatedly and deliberately in the way the Catholic Religion is in America. (When’s the last time you saw transsexuals dress up like freaks entering a synagogue to prove a point?)
I think the answer is a rather simple one: The Catholic Church is the only religion with big enough, er, church bells, to call people, everybody, out on their behavior and condemn them for the wrongfully accepted actions in which they may partake.
When’s the last time you heard Islam proclaim a Fatwa that abortion is immoral? Or beheadings, for that matter?
How about Judaism? Have you ever seen a pro-homosexual rally outside a synagogue, calling for Judaism to accept gays?
Buddhism? Yeah, everyone is always condemning them for their views on gay marriage.
The truth is that the Catholic Church has been the only consistently vocally outspoken source concerning morally acceptable ways of conducting oneselves in the free world, and roundly gets condemned for it, on a world wide scale.
People don’t want to feel as though they have to answer to a higher power for how they morally and ethically conduct themselves, and the Catholic Church reminds them of just that, whether they are Catholics or not.
Its reach is far and wide, casting a moral net into almost every segment of social mores. Even if you are an atheist, you can still be swayed by the opinion that abortion is wrong on a moral scale.
Catholics are unabashedly unapologetic when it comes to what the Church believes. So much so that the Church has helped to shape world events that have altered the course of billions of people for generations.
It was the triumvirate of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II that collectively and finally brought the red menace to its demise.
For all the hate directed at the Catholic Church and it’s dictums, it has done a remarkable amount of good to shape and defend our way of life, whether such dictums were of a popular nature at the time or not.
Amen to that.
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