RE: Damned Catholics
June 11, 2024 at 11:05 am
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2024 at 11:05 am by Fake Messiah.)
Ay, yay, yay, this is a sad and morbid story. There was a Catholic woman in Italy who died some 10 years ago because she refused to have cancer treatment because she was pregnant (meaning she could have been alive today if she wasn't a Catholic), and now the Catholic Church is making her a saint to, I guess, encourage other women not to have an abortion even to save their own life.
And her story is not just made into a book by the Church and translated into many languages, but it's also sad and shows how Catholic magic fails because she did all the "right" things as a Catholic woman: she met her future husband on a pilgrimage to the place of Marian apparition, waited to get married to have sex only for procreation, and then gave birth to one deformed baby after another because she didn't want to abort (and praying for a miracle), until they had a healthy one but she had gotten sick.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/...rd-in-june
And her story is not just made into a book by the Church and translated into many languages, but it's also sad and shows how Catholic magic fails because she did all the "right" things as a Catholic woman: she met her future husband on a pilgrimage to the place of Marian apparition, waited to get married to have sex only for procreation, and then gave birth to one deformed baby after another because she didn't want to abort (and praying for a miracle), until they had a healthy one but she had gotten sick.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/...rd-in-june
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
