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Thread #152856   Message #3578821
Posted By: Steve Shaw
24-Nov-13 - 08:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope's Survey
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope's Survey
But obsession with sex? No, I really don't think that's common any more.

Well that's all very well, and I'm sure that other things come to the fore just as much. But you simply can't get away with this. The damage is done. The Catholic Church during my time with it, and since, has laid down the laws about sex, when to have it, when not, what it's for, who can have it with whom, that it must be without contraception, how you must not abort (cf. Mother Teresa, not at all an embarrassment but actually lionised and soon to be sainted), what lasciviousness you are not allowed to have running through your mind (backed up, of course, by the very words of Jesus), and so on. Laced, of course, with a nice layer of misogyny. All under pain of mortal sin. Your "not any more" defence, which you frequently resort to, is actually not much of a defence at all when you consider that the message of old, or not so old, is long-ingrained into tens of millions of Catholics' minds, and your church, disingenuously, does nothing whatsoever to dispel that message. Your quiet fight from within, a concept I heartily endorse, is laudable. But too bloody quiet by miles. You sound far more like an apologist to me.