Weird Shit – It’s a Mystery To Me

I miss George Carlin.  He always had a bit about the weird shit in life.  You know, those things that when you look at them logically they just don’t make any sense.  That’s the kind of stuff that has been swirling around in my head lately.  So here are some questions for you……………….

People who hoard guns, including semi-automatic weapons and large ammo clips are, according to Wayne LaPierre of the NRA, just gun fanciers.  Yet women, most of them older, who rescue homeless, unwanted and often injured cats from the street are Crazy Cat Ladies.  So why does society value objects whose purpose is to kill and ridicule compassion? 

Why were states, ruled by Republicans, so concerned about voter fraud in the last election, especially when they could only provide, at best, less than 10 cases of voter fraud in the previous 5 or 10 years?  Yet this same political party reassures us that only reasonable people will buy semi-automatic weapons and large capacity ammo clips at a gun show or pawn shop, without any background check.  How does the damage done or the danger posed by a few hundred, thousand, or ten thousand fraudulent votes compare to the damage done by a 30 round ammo clip in a crowd of people?

 

Those very same state legislatures felt the most pressing agenda item was to further restrict a woman’s access to a legal (by Federal law) abortion, imposing a waiting period and counseling prior to having an abortion performed, yet they object to a 3 day waiting period to purchase a gun.  If abortion is murder to them, exactly what do they think the purpose of a gun is?  Costume jewelry?  A lovely wall hanging?  Maybe a hood ornament for their truck?

Why does society practically deify the Wall Street gamblers, most of whom get richer by having access to insider trading tips (cheating), instead of valuing the hard working people who go to their jobs, either creating tangible objects or providing a much needed service, each and every day?

In light of the damage done to our air, water, ground and overall health by the extraction and use of fossil fuels do humans choose fossil fuels over cleaner energy that will benefit the humans, plants, animals and environment?

Why do those who call themselves Pro-Life generally support the death penalty and the elimination of the social safety nets that primarily benefit living, breathing children?  How does a fetus have more value than an already born child?  

Why do those same Pro-Life people object so loudly to contraception, which is the best way to prevent unwanted pregnancies and decrease the number of abortions?  

Again, why do these same people, who say they are so concerned about fetuses continue to vilify Planned Parenthood, which in so many areas of the U.S. is the only source of low cost or free prenatal care?  Prenatal care is the best way to insure a woman gives birth to a healthy baby.

Following the exposition of the disgusting and deplorable actions of the Catholic Church, for hundreds of years, regarding their complicity in the thousands of cases of pedophile priests around the world, why are people still attending the Catholic Church and supporting anything said by any Catholic priest, bishop or Pope?

Consider this part of an ongoing list of things about society that continue to baffle, confound and anger me.  Feel free to add some of your own to the list in the comments.  I’d love to hear from you.

YOU’RE GROUNDED!

Well, well, well, young ladies, you have stepped over the line one too many times.  My previous scoldings, tongue lashings and hand slappings obviously haven’t worked.  From hence forth you shall only speak when spoken to.  When you do speak, you will utter only the words I tell you to speak.  You will only participate in activities that I have sanctioned.  You will associate only with people and groups who I have previously approved.  Everything you do, say and THINK will be monitored by my hand-picked lady-sitter.  You will learn to behave like the proper ladies I expect you to be.  You will LEARN YOUR PLACE in the world and you will REMAIN IN YOUR PLACE under threat of eternal damnation.  Why?  By what authority do I declare this mandate?  Because I am your Father, my authority comes directly from God, I AM IL PAPA, The Pope!

You are held to a standard set by God.  As a woman, you are born of Man as was Eve born from Adam’s rib.  You are not fully human.  Humanity applies only to men.  We were the first and we wield a mighty wand.  God put man on earth to control your uncontrollable, base nature.  Without our guidance you would sow destruction upon our earth.  Only through our beneficence can you possibly know God and do God’s work.  Only we know God’s mind, only we are inherently able to determine Right from Wrong, Good from Evil.  We are always on the side of Right and Good.  Only we have the God given ability to lead the world and keep people on the path of both Right and Good.  We are God’s perfect examples of how to live a Godly, Devout life…………………..unless, of course we see a lovely young boy and, occasionally, a particularly charming young girl.  Then it is incumbent upon us to share God’s love with them.  With young children, we can demonstrate the ecstasy of God’s love.  We can teach young boys the power that resides within the wand with which God gifted them.  

END OF SARCASM.  

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) have been roundly reprimanded by The Vatican, i.e. Pope Benedict for what he and Bishop Leonard Blair have determined that the Leadership:

“had challenged church teaching on homosexuality and the male-only priesthood, and promoted “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.”  And these heretical women have focused too much of their time and efforts on the issue of poverty. 

You can read the full article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/us/vatican-reprimands-us-nuns-group.html

another here: http://www.cathnewsusa.com/2012/04/nuns-%E2%80%98stunned%E2%80%99-as-vatican-tells-them-to-focus-on-%E2%80%98human-sexuality%E2%80%99/

and from the LCWR website: https://lcwr.org/media/news/lcwr-board-meets-review-cdf-report

Apparently the pervasive perversion of pedophilic priests and the conspiracy by higher ranking authorities within the church (including the current Pope before he was “elected” to his position) weren’t horrendous, hypocritical nor outrageous enough for Catholics around the world to flee this faith.  I shouldn’t need to detail these crimes committed by priests against children, as well as those committed against church followers.  How these criminally perverted hypocrites could continue to preach to their parishioners about morality, values and purity of mind and body is beyond my understanding.  Certainly, it is the epitome of “Do as I say, not as I do.”  To stand in judgment, take confession of the people who looked to them for salvation is unconscionable.  For me, worse yet was the fact that church elders were well aware of the perverted activities of the priests and chose to either ignore it, cover it up or transfer the priest to another unwitting parish, where those priests would have a “fresh crop” of innocent children to molest.  There was no outrage, no condemnation of this widespread disease infecting the church.  In most cases the church attacked the victims instead.  However, now that women have dared to minister to the poor, to provide counsel and comfort to those in the LGBT community, to speak up for women’s health rights – this is what the Church finds truly outrageous.  This is something that DEMANDS Public Shaming.  No doubt, if the Church had the power in today’s world, these women would be trotted out into the public square, have their bodices ripped from them, tie them to a stake and whip them for the public to witness.  Alternately, they would probably like to lock them in a pillory so that the public could walk past them and pelt them with eggs, rotten tomatoes or even stones.  

 

What will it take for those who call themselves Catholic to fully reject this corrupt, evil organization?  The sacrificing of the lives of innocent children apparently wasn’t enough.  Will the public shaming and denunciation of nuns and women of faith who have generously served the physical and moral needs of individual people become the one that opens their eyes? 

UPDATE June 2 6:15 PM Eastern Time: Alternet ( http://www.alternet.org/) has a lengthy post about this issue.  It's well worth reading, as well as encouraging.  Personally, I can only hope that the nuns will defeat The Vatican in this struggle.  Check it out here: http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/155696/why_the_pope_hates_nuns/?page=1