Do you think that there's any understanding that the world has moved on from them? My understanding, based completely on anecdata, is that it's the women who take the kids to church, sunday school, plan all of those things.
Oh, that understanding is crystal clear, and it scares the SHIT out of them. Hence all the investigations and scolding and disciplining and shaming and all the rest of it. They're fucking terrified.
Once you've gotten in their faces and made it very clear that you don't want them, your church will just die off without them. Is this way overly simplistic?
I don't actually think it is.
My parish is attending a special screening of Pink Smoke Over The Vatican at The Embarcadero next month (with Roy Bourgeois speaking afterward). I should probably try to grab a couple of the organizers and ask for a dinner or coffee date, and start seriously talking about "What next? No,
really,
what next?"
They're fucking terrified.
I see. So they're trying to hasten it by doubling down?
This is really just the same stuff that's happening with all the War on Women laws in the US. I want to believe it's the terrified death rattle of a dying mindset. "I AM TAKING YOU ALL DOWN WITH ME!" But it will take years to undo this all.
"SCHISM! SCHISM!"
Judean People's Front! People's Front of Judea!
Sorry.
Maybe we need an Anti-Pope again.
it will take years to undo this all.
This is my main worry. I have no doubt at all that all this ugly backlashy stuff is going to look like death throes from 100 years' distance -- but they're working their
asses
off right now to stick it to us as hard as they can in the mean time. Hence crap like trying to push through an anti-marriage amendment in NC even though the dude who
wrote
the thing as much as admits it'll be a dead issue in 20 years time.
Twenty years, and you want to amend a fucking constitution for the explicitly stated reason of making it harder for your opposition legislatively. Fuckers.
"SCHISM! SCHISM!"
You could be like the Cathars, JZ, only successful. The Cathars had some great names, such as Esclarmonde De Foix. They were anti-church corruption and vegetarian and, arguably, had the best music (a number of troubadours were Cathar or at least Cathar sympathetic).
Go Cathar 2.0! Choose Cathar 2.0!
Or that whole thing about counting last period as time so your window for abortion is shorter. So, you have to count the age of an egg that hasn't yet dropped into account.
Or having to carry a dead fetus around until your body expels it, because you can't abort a dead fetus. Just like the animals on the farm.
I don't know whether to quietly sob or release a primal scream, on a minute by minute basis.
Seriously, that really does make my heart hurt for women religious. This is their whole life -- they've given their whole selves to fulfilling Christ's mission, and they're DOING IT, and they're getting smacked down in a huge way and being told that they're committing spiritual wrongs.
This! The nuns I knew in school would be vocally outraged about this. I hope that there is a seriously widespread response to this ridiculousness.
