RE: Church excommunicates a girl for aborting her twins but lets her rapist go free
May 28, 2012 at 12:35 am
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2012 at 12:38 am by Ziploc Surprise.)
(May 27, 2012 at 1:33 pm)Drich Wrote:Yeah, now that she's officially going to hell she can be an atheist. I'm sorry I couldn't resist that comment. Hee, hee.(May 26, 2012 at 10:36 pm)Ziploc Surprise Wrote: The controversy represents a PR nightmare for the Vatican. The unnamed girl's mother and doctors were excommunicated for agreeing to Wednesday's emergency abortion yet the Church has not taken formal steps against the stepfather, who is in custody. Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, the conservative regional archbishop for Pernambuco where the girl was rushed to hospital, has said that the man would not be thrown out of the Church, because although he had allegedly committed "a heinous crime", the Church took the view that "the abortion, the elimination of an innocent life, was more serious".
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...40165.html
Sometimes blessings come in the form of hardship. At least now she is free to find a church that does not teach a works/legalism based doctrine.
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise