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My wife and I attended Syracuse University in the late 1960s during the Vietnam War. I was draft age, making the war a constant cloud over me and all of my male classmates. It was also a time when social issues were coming to our attention daily. We were all ready to deal with them, as well as attend and work at our classes for our education and grades. The first Earth Day was a campus wide event filling our quad with displays of respect and solutions for our planet. Hendrix Chapel was both m…
I would go so far as to say that CHA, a major Catholic hospitals association, has an anti-abortion policy of forcing closed non-sectarian community hospitals so that they are the only game in town. They will construct a new hospital with more services, (or purchase the original hospital,) tell doctors they cannot have admission privileges if they also see patients at the community hospital, then slowly bring that hospital to its financial knees. I know this because I once worked at the communit…
Despite some occasional good works, the Catholic Church as an institution has been mostly malign ever since Constantine decided to make them the official church of the Roman Empire. The priests were out killing off the "wise women" in the villages who could help people in ways the frocked moron never could (thus becoming an alternative power, which couldn't be tolerated), calling them witches; when the wise woman was killed, so were her cats. And then the rats, without a predator, gained in pop…
We won't even get into the Church's leading role in the genocide of the Americas once they showed up in the New World with Columbus, Cortez and Pizarro.
I want to make certain no one reads what I said as "anti-Catholic." I've known many very sincere Catholics, and they have been laudable people. I'll never forget meeting Ammon Hennacy, who with Dorothy Day founded the Catholic Worker movement, and when I met him ran a house in Salt Lake City where anyone could come for shelter for as long as they needed it (so long as they were willing to become a part of the community and participate in keeping things going so others could be helped). But he, …
You might add that Evangelical Christians, while they haven’t been at it for as long, are at least as bad, and probably worse, than Catholics on most issues, and their voting record is substantially worse.