Spiritual/Political/Philosophical Blog on the Nature of Truth and Falsehood and Heaven
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Thursday, May 09, 2002 A History of Shame A number of Catholic blogers have been doing a bit of history study and revealing that such gross sexual scandals are nothing new to the RCC. They mean to put the situation into perspective; and that's all well and good. Their hope is that the RCC will recover, reform, and move onward as it always has despite such evil doers in its midst. But I have to say that the history lessons are doing me more harm than good, for what I and others may notice is that in the RCC we get a seamless and unbroken line of the most egregious corruption and evil doing in the history of religion (perhaps). The history of the RCC is of continual scandal in high places punctuated with occasional revivals by a few saints from time to time like Francis. It is a very sorry history and leads more to contempt for the institution than towards pride and respect for its miraculously long legs of survival and reverence. One is tempted to wonder if all Catholics are fools or not. I know I'm wondering and I'm a Catholic with a deep appreciation for its worship history and core message, truth, and morality. Furthermore. But as I've said before, great religions and the RCC have enormous cultural inertia in them. The train will keep on rolling no matter what I or anybody else says; no matter how much criticism it gets. There's something amazing, wonderful, and a little bit scary about that. Once established, a religion will never die it seems. I have a blog coming up, though, that illustrates how Jesus trumps every other claim on truth. It's not exactly a Christianity vs. the rest, but that the truth of Jesus beats everything else because it is true and demonstrable. posted by Mark Butterworth | 1:52 AM | |
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