RE: Are certain horrific aspects of catholicism distinctive to that sect specificaly.
July 30, 2013 at 1:36 pm
(July 30, 2013 at 1:07 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: Everybody was desperate in reminding others about any kind of somehow even little bit of unpleasentry that they could in any way think of about that poor person. Turning the most childish little things, even out of that mans childhood into some big crime story.
I was so disgusted that I tried to talk my friends into leaving without paying the bill, but in the end we just left early.
On the 4 hour drive home, I came to remember that this was in a way the reason why had left Austria and moved to (protestant and more liberal) Germany in the first place ( I am currently back but will leave next year). This disgusting catholic attitude, the idea of sin and divine redemption, and that god will somehow punish people during their lives for their sins and that every misfortune that was inflicted on you must be justifyable with sins of yours, which had completly sunken into the minds and culture of this backwards society (and if I am not mistaken also in Italy, France, Spain and Poland). I remembered several funerals from my childhood in which when the person brought to grave died a horrible death - people always looked for "sins" like a fucking pack of vultures to loudly justify that horrific death
I'm Italian, raised Catholic, and I have never seen anything like this during my whole life. It may be just an Austrian thing.
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
