New Moon fan. (AP Photo/ Lefteris Pitarakis)
The Vatican's Pontifical Council for Culture blasted the new vampire movie, New Moon, which is aimed at teens and young adults. The Pontifical Council for Culture claims the movie is a “moral vacuum with a deviant message”.
Based on the record of the Catholic Church protecting pedophile priests from justice, they're still protecting former Boston Cardinal Bernard Law by keeping him in the Vatican, while innocent children have their lives ruined at the hands of these clergymen, it doesn't seem the Catholic Church has the right to condemn the morals of anyone or anything.
When you examine much of the material in the Bible, which the Catholic Church and Christianity say they're based on, it becomes evident there are examples of much lower morals than what is in New Moon. For example there is incest. One Biblical case of incest is found at Genesis 19:31-38 which says in part, "Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father."
Father Abraham, the patriarch of all three of the Abrahamic "revealed" religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, married his half-sister and then, objectively speaking, pimped her. Genesis 12:10-16 has Abram, aka Abraham, telling his 70 year old wife Sarai, aka Sarah, that she is very beautiful and that the Egyptians will want her. Therefore, he doesn't want her to tell the Egyptians that they are married, only that Abram is her brother. He did this out of fear the Egyptians would be so smitten with his 70 year old wife's beauty that they would kill him to have her. She did as he said and ended up being taken in by Pharaoh himself, as the story goes. Because of Sarai pleasing Pharaoh, Pharaoh gave great wealth to Abram. This, in essence, is pimping and prostitution. Is this a family value we want to teach our children? Should the Vatican and all Christian, Jewish and Islamic religious organizations condemn this account of Biblical prostitution and pimping as they condemn the movie, New Moon?
If a teenager or young adult was arrested for picking up babies and smashing them against stones and the police found this quote in a book the teen owned, "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones", the Vatican and clergy would demand the censorship of such disgusting and violence promoting writings. The only problem for the clergy and Vatican would be that this repulsive quote is found in their "word of God", the Bible! It's at Psalm 137:9. This quote makes clear what the Deist and American Founding Father Thomas Paine meant when he wrote in The Age of Reason, "Is it because ye are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that ye listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?" Is it time for humanity to move forward and leave behind the ancient superstitions of the past? If we don't, we'll end up like the Jews at the Wailing Wall Albert Einstein was watching when he said about them, "Where dull-witted clansmen of our tribe were praying aloud, their faces turned to the wall, their bodies swaying to and fro. A pathetic sight of men with a past but without a future."
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The new way Catholic clergy are dealing with the cases of reporting abuse is when the follower tells the priest, the priest says that they need to come to the confessional!@#$%^ Now the priest is not mandated by state reporting law to call the police on the reporting of that abuse by the follower! Slick and thought up by a good attorney I'm sure. And only followed by a morally corrupt kind of person. A Catholic Clergy member.
You bastards have no idea what you're talking about. Priests are human beings, they have the ability to do wrong. No reason to make the Church out as the villain, and forget that they teach against this sort of behavior. A couple of sickos who just happen to be in positions of power doesn't reflect the Church. Don't have anyone else to blame for the problem in the world and you go for the Church
John,Is that what your being programed with ?It's much worse than a couple. And the people I'm talking about sit at the top of the empire RCC. The Bishop of San Diego is a gay man that prayed on young seminarians and has paid the money to prove it. The Cardinal of L.A is hoping for a good vote on a secret Grand Jury as we speak. Not to mention Law hiding from extradition in "Roma" and that ain't the tomato. Brown in Orange County that was raping kids in Bakersfield. Try www.richardsipe.com or bishop accountability before you show you lack of understanding for the people in power in the RCC. Take the stained glasses off and take a good look around yourself at church my friend. Cardinal Egan cover up artist. Because of bad people at the top in the RCC. The pope was Hitler Youth and ran the Office For the Congrig to the Faithful for 20 years. Read the Crimson Solartaris 1962 leaked in 03. The pope now is a company man trying to keep the RCC from folding in on it self. LOL your blind john
I can't find a way to defend the bible in the morale aspect, which is why I'm not a christian.
But if your gonna attack the Crylight series, have a better reason than morales, especelly when the ones who shout it are highly immorale.
Atleast say you're fans of Anne Rice!
The Bible and Christianity isn't about morals; it's about the relationship with God that is now available to us because of Jesus Christ's death on the cross. Yes, all of the things you mentioned above are recorded in the Bible... even Abraham was a sinner. Yes, priests sin and do bad things. We ALL need a Savior because God is holy and we are not. The only way we are allowed into His presence is by becoming holy. And the only way to become holy is to trust in the atoning sacrifice of Christ on the cross for our sins.
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