This Week in God, 1-1-06

A new year has started, so it's best that people would learn to forgive and forget, but certain Catholics seem to want to limit who they can forgive.
Last month, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights was upset over a South Park episode in which a statue of the Virgin Mary is believed to be bleeding from her rectum.
Okay, I can see how the Catholic League can be offended.
But wait, it doesn't just end there. It turns out that the Virgin Mary is actually bleeding from her vagina and Pope Benedict XVI claims it's not a miracle. The new Pope is also sprayed in the face with a lot of menstrual blood.
What's the matter, Catholics, can't take a joke?
You see, this is why a lot of Protestants I grew up with in the south, hate Catholics. I'm sorry if I offend anyone, but we are talking about the Catholic Church that publically admitted to passing around priests they had concrete evidence had molested boys and girls for decades, rather than throwing their asses in jail.
South Park is a cartoon show. It isn't a scripture.
Even more sad, was that the League got their way after they strongarmed Joseph A. Califano Jr., a member of the Board of Directors at Viacom, the company that owns Comedy Central, to stop any reairing of the show. The League reported that Califano is a "practicing Catholic."
This brings me to my next complaint. I've met a lot of Catholics. A lot of my friends are Catholic. They are either practicing or not. I've never met a practicing Baptist or a practicing Methodist.
This whole deal about "practicing Catholics" is just a way for the Catholic church to make their own feel bad for missing a Sunday mass or not attending a routine confession. It's a shame that the Catholic church puts labels on its own members like this. Who are they to tell someone that they are not a true Catholic or not. The faith is inside, for Christ's sake.
Like I've said before, I don't need to remind myself of my spiritual beliefs every Sunday.
This past Friday, my girlfriend did something that can either be an act of goodwill or something stupid. She notices a family at Wal-Mart, who needed gas money to get to Minnesota. She gave them the $20 she had in her possession. Why did she do this? One time, when she needed gas money, a local church known for giving out gas money, closed their door on her. Why? Because they only gave money to transients. Which do you think showed better Christian love?
If the Catholic League wants their religion to be portrayed in a more positive way, maybe they should do more positive things rather than make fuss over a 22 minute TV show. Maybe their should focus more on the civil rights of all those children whose lives were forever changed by molesting priests.