RE: Being a priest - a shameful path of life?
August 10, 2012 at 5:06 am
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2012 at 5:12 am by Ciel_Rouge.)
(August 10, 2012 at 3:47 am)Kayenneh Wrote: As for the OP. I've met priest who promote sexual education, marriage for gays, open-mindedness, equality between the genders etc, so no, I cannot say that are despicable people on a shameful path of life, because they aren't. The only thing them and I disagree on is belief and religion.
Hi Kayenneh! Well... where I live priests promote unprotected sex, say publicly gays should go to hospital and get a treatment for their "disease", encourage repression of women etc. Sure there are those few priests who actually believe in being a good person and indeed do something good (charity etc.). But they could do those things equally well or even better without wasting the rest of their time on being a priest
On the other hand, the vast majority are at least idle in their parasitic lives but this idleness usually turns into some sort of harm towards women, minors or the local community e.g. excessive money draining. In Poland even in the poorest villages the church (the building) is always in excellent condition even if people's homes aren't and if something breaks the money is immediately collected from villagers and the amount is usually a couple of times higher than the actual amount typically spent on such repairs so one could only wonder where the rest of the money goes.
I did not intend this thread as some sort of hate thread. The title was supposed to be provocative to encourage taking a fresh look at the issue from an entirely different perspective. The average Joe will just tell you that priests are such wonderful people because... they are priests ;-) etc.
As for priests being atheists - well, there was a very amusing novel called Justine by Marquis de Sade where the clergymen indeed openly admitted to being atheists. They even said something like "the more we know about religion the more we despise it". For them being a priest meant free access to money and women and legal immunity. Fictional as they were, I suppose this kind of attitude is not entirely unheard of even in our century :-)
