It would be a disservice to the Disservice if we did not comment on the high octane jack-assery that is going on in Catholic-land at the moment as they feverishly scrabble about looking for the best candidate to be their earthly link to the Almighty-Holy-Gibberish in the sky. I’m thinking they would have better luck with Alectryomancy.
Sadly, Canada has a candidate in the running for the title of His Pope-ness, by the name of Marc Ouellet. His grip on reality, like that of many of the religious, is tenuous at best (wanting to be the chosen emissary of the Sky-Daddy here on earth an all that. I secretly think that there is a holy (holey?) sock-puppet that has “god” embroidered on it that only the pope gets to wear and converse with.) Parenthetical ruminations aside, Mr.Ouellet when not fapping for jebus, has some quaintly retrograde points of view when it comes to social issues.
Shocking.
“Once touted as a possible candidate to become pope, Ouellet apparently had no intention of wading into a public policy debate when [he] called abortion a “moral crime” as serious as murder and said it is never justified — even in cases of rape.”
Ah, rapetastic pope gives those bitches what they deserve! No rights, no autonomy and incubator status straight-fucking-up. I am curious as to the calibre of mental gymnastics it takes to be female and to identify as Catholic when the head of your church makes raging misogyny plank #1 on his papal platform. It gets better, Ouellet digs deeper:
“Ouellet said he understands that a sexually assaulted woman has been traumatized and must be helped and that her attacker must be held accountable.
“But there is already a victim,” he said. “Must there be another one?”
Will someone PLEASE think of the children!!!! (While we insidiously erase women’s autonomy, tough darts for you bitchez!!)
Ouellet is also on the progressive cutting edge of other societal issues; same sex marriage and homosexuality come to mind:
“His Eminence raised concern over the positive presentation of homosexuality and same-sex “marriage” in schools. With such questionable education, the Cardinal said, “You are deforming conscience. You are warping the processes of psycho-sexual and psycho-social identification processes of youth.”
Fags and dykes! Back into the closet for you! We’ll see you burning in the lake of fire soon enough, but for now, be away with your sinful practices your presence cannot be tolerated within a properly religious society (and by “properly religious society” I actually mean, fucked-up dystopian hell.)! It is sad to see this sort of bigotry paraded out in the open. The following quote is not what Ouellet has said, but I’m pretty sure he supports it:
“Considerations Regarding Proposals To Give Legal Recognition To Unions Between Homosexual Persons, said that, “Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such unions would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full development.” (No. 7).Homosexual indoctrination is just another form of child abuse.”
To see a nasty slice of the Dark Ages apparently one just needs to dial Ouellet’s Papal Way-Back-Machine, for a heady whiff of the good ‘ole days when the church was leading society straight into the muck. With such progressive views, how can this dude NOT be pope?
Oh and of course, no Catholic article would be complete without commentary on the officially denied by tacitly condoned child-rape-cabal a.k.a the catholic priesthood. Severely enlightened Ouellet in dulcet tones denotes:
“He also said child abuse is not specifically a Roman Catholic issue but that the church has garnered more attention.
“It is not a Catholic problem; it is a human problem. Most of the abuse occurred in families in very general in society, and my hope is what was done by the Catholic Church, which is not yet perfect, but could be also of example for others in society,” he said.
Last month, SNAP, (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) singled out three papal candidates who, either by their comments or their deeds, had tried to brush off allegations of abuse by members of the clergy.”
Oh, it is just a human problem! Okay then. Carry on! (*headesk forever*)
Canada still has a freely flowing super-abundance of toxic religious stupidity; enough (shamefully) that we can *share* with rest of the world. And thus to the world, my heartfelt apologies.




13 comments
March 10, 2013 at 1:03 pm
Reneta Scian
On the note of the Catholic Church, I has a matter I’d like your opinion on. Rather than posting it in a comment I was hoping to e-mail it to you. It’s something I’d been thinking of asking you before, as a fellow atheist, and writer, but this post brought it to the forefront of my mind.
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March 10, 2013 at 1:37 pm
The Arbourist
Certainly Reneta, my blog email is arbourist@hotmail.com. I don’t check it regularly, so leave a note here when you are ready to correspond.
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March 10, 2013 at 2:30 pm
syrbal
One thing I’ve noticed that has made me laugh with a good deal of bitterness? When bloggers have made comments, or the news has commented on the secrecy of the whole conclave process, I’ve seen indignant, up-tight Catholic comments about having “respect”! Please? Governments catch hell for the secrecy crap these days, and the Church is asserting some sort of privilege in all the shame of USING such ‘sacred’ secrecy to hide criminal behavior?
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March 10, 2013 at 2:32 pm
windupmyskirt
I too am a Canadian and I am afraid of what may happen if Ouellet becomes Pope. Canada is one of a handful of countries that is currently steering away from religious affiliation in large numbers. If Ouellet becomes Pope, it just may stir up our weird patriotism… by that I mean we Canadians cannot pass up an opportunity to claim one of our own even when we are somewhat ashamed to do so (ie. Justin Bieber). It’s an odd sort of pride we have… a love/hate relationship if you will. This weird patriotism may just lead some of the weaker minded right back to the church… and I, for one would hate to see that happen. But, then again I do tend to over-react.
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March 10, 2013 at 2:36 pm
The Arbourist
@Syrbal
Secrecy is one of the ways they keep the whole rotten edifice from crumbling into itty-bitty jebus bits. It would be suicide for them to actually air their “process” such as it is precisely because it is so repugnant. Could you imagine frank discussion of the horrible things they do…hmmm…well…we killed a couple of million in Africa because god hates latex condoms with all the passions of christ turned to 11.
How could the process not happen in secret?
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March 10, 2013 at 2:40 pm
The Arbourist
@Windupmyskirt
Hallelujah! Bless the FSM and her noodly appendages! Less religious delusion = better country. :)
Where will we be if they decide to cast him in Starwars VII? Doomed I say, doomed.
Me too. I’m not a fan of what religion can do to people. :/
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March 10, 2013 at 2:57 pm
syrbal
Yes, and yet secrecy in our world is on the rise. To think, once we decried the Soviets for their embrace of the shadows….now we have ALL fallen deep into that shadow.
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March 10, 2013 at 3:22 pm
The Arbourist
@Syrbal
Regrettably, I have to agree with you. Without transparency democracy withers and rots from the inside. Too much goes on “that is unfit for public consumption” these days. The paradigm of secrecy must change if we are to maintain our rights, values and freedoms (I’m looking at you President death from above Obama).
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March 10, 2013 at 3:24 pm
syrbal
::::sigh:::: Yeah, I am finding the choices of this allegedly more liberal choice horrific. The entire world seems to be sliding rightwards at astonishing and horrifying speed.
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March 10, 2013 at 5:07 pm
Reneta Scian
@Arbourist – I sent the e-mail about the matter I wanted to ask for your input on to the e-mail that you gave. It should be sitting and waiting in your inbox.
As for cultures, it’s high time that we create a culture that doesn’t cultivate weak minds. If people knew to have a standard of evidence, and knowledge I don’t think we’d have to worry about it really. A culture of intellectual laziness is a gullible culture with no spine to stand up against nonsense and tom-foolery. Fertile grounds for delusion, and mythology to breed. If you can’t get people to recognize a loyalty to reality, and to the paths which evidence leads us then this will inevitably happen.
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March 11, 2013 at 10:10 am
heinrich
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He also said child abuse is not specifically a Roman Catholic issue but that the church has garnered more attention.
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Yeah – Well maybe the extra attention is due to the fact that – when they are not busy hiding pedophile criminals – the Catholic clergy is busy claiming absolute moral authority.
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It is not a Catholic problem; it is a human problem. Most of the abuse occurred in families in very general in society, and my hope is what was done by the Catholic Church, which is not yet perfect, but could be also of example for others in society.
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Let’s hope not.
“Not yet perfect” has to be one of the most cynical understatements I have ever encountered.
Criminal law should apply in the Vatican.
Sent the child-rapists to rot in jail.
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March 11, 2013 at 12:29 pm
The Arbourist
Agreed.
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March 13, 2013 at 6:40 am
Reneta Scian
I agree with the statement about Catholic Pedophiles, and add… Arb, I replied to your message.
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