Awesome God; human institutions, not so much

[spacellama]

Easter, for me, isn't much about bunnies or peeps. It's about God and how freakin awesome it is that she (or he; whatever, it's not as if God is petty about gender) bothered to understand the human condition first-hand, every stinking, nasty part of it, including excruciating death

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[lissas_elves]

I'm not a Catholic, but despite disagreeing strongly on several points, I always respected the Church and the Pope .

>>But any church organization that would ignore the cries of victims and instead, in a very zero sum way, seek to further itself just doesn't seem to be what Jesus would have had in mind.<<

Yes, I think you put your finger on the one thing that made the original crimes even worse than they already were. For if one cannot trust the church to make the right decision and protect the innocents, once it knows about the crime, then one really cannot trust it at all. So the church betrayed not only the victims, but all who believed in its righteousness.

[spacellama]

Jesus Christ Superstar is profound.

[sea_of_change]

You are awesome.

[neumeindil]

I had that same feeling of betrayal years ago when my church started telling me that I as a woman wasn't as deserving of fairness or satisfaction on earth as a man was, that it was ungodly for me to question my "betters" (read: the men in charge of the church), or to take issue with the catechism and translations of the Bible. The worst question I ever asked was if the Holy Spirit was the Female part of the Trinity, since obviously girls exist and if Jesus and God were both men there had to be a Divine Feminine somewhere, humans being made in God's image.

That question got me kicked out of catechism classes, and eventually that's what led my mother to leave the church.

You're not alone. I've had a lovely day in my room where it's nice and cool and reasonably quiet with the cat asleep on my foot. Later I might have a piece of chocolate.

[neumeindil]

No worries. :) That B.S. is what led me away from Christianity all together. I'm a tree hugging dirt worshiper now, and never been gladder of it.

[moralanqua]

Well done you.

The most important thing to remember is that God did not commit these crimes - weak, perverted, cowardly men did.

There is a much to be said for the corruption within the ranks of the Roman Catholic establishment today but the heart is still pure - that being the believers, the true form of the faith who know right from wrong, who still pray and love despite the tarnish. People like you will keep the Catholic faith going as it should be and those who blasphemed your trust and interaction with God will have their day of reckoning. (Hopefully in a prison cell with a large, hairy dude named The Machine).