| Chris the Cheez-
(said) " I read that post and see no relevance to anything. Indeed it seams rather mindless, care to clarify?"
-not really, but perhaps a little clarity for the more 'mindful', like yourself:
There are Saints and Sinners in church and out.
The aforementioned story shows a hypocricy that is quite common in Church organizations and in society, as a whole. This particular story is gruesome, and demonstrates nearly the worst we can expect from any human. In my opinion, this type of devious activity would occur whether or not a church affiliation is involved for the individual(s) cited.
Churches attract misguided souls sheerly due to the promise of redemption. Saints of the Catholic order, were, in general, very 'nice' people. They achieved the highest rank a human can attain to in Catholicism. In helping to shape and change doctrine, they could not be considered followers in the pure definition. They are exempt from my prior generalization that only the misguided seek guidance, etc. Their words (The saints') are now read and hermaneutically plied for insight and gainful knowledge of texts and scripture. Indeed, they are above church dogma and law.
The rest of us, namely the 'sinners', are flawed, and thus 'follow'. Even the priest is no Saint, and is therefore equal to the people. By decree of the Church, only the Pope and saints are guaranteed to ascend. The rest are in need of guidance, repentance... protection of a sort? In most western non-orthodox Christian religion, this can apply.
When a man or woman swears upon a book that (s)he will live a life of piety and in service to God, the children of the congregation are made readily available to them. The parents will rationalize and wonder why, after abuses occur. A deacon, priest, coach or guidance counselor , to name a few, cannot be trusted without reservation, observation and some rational concern.
Unfortunately, the really evil, brilliant criminal minds will use these positions of power to hide and exert influence over people. Simply because there are these terrible people, we must have very stringent guidelines and backround checks to recognize potential 'hypocrites'.
It is too bad that we cannot have a Saint in every position of power, such as Religious congregational leaders. Or the Presidency. Logic, however, may remind us all that the very same need that the Churches spring from guarantees that these perceived devious anomalies are actually very common and to be expected regularly. These are Oppurtunity Crimes. Opuurtunists who want the forbidden may walk the walk longer than anyone could expect. That is scary, but pertinent.
So, of hypocricy.. come on guys!
Hypocricy is borne in the believer's heart. What's to say of the non-believer?
Who believes everything they hear? Those in need of guidance?
And when the children are raped?
Blame the Church. Forget we trusted in a person who simply said they had a deep and abiding faith in the Unknown. Forget we might have been lead like lambs of God.
I cannot begin to tell you what a shame this situation is. The people involved demonstrated an ignorance on all sides that seems sub-human. However, I am absolutely not surprised. It is getting harder to cover up indiscretion and that is the only reason we now see so much on the Media about these types of crimes.
Fingers aching.. please, read between the lines next time.
You are mindless to me if you don't yet realize that translation is the receiver's burden, not the speakers.
Dadoo
Heartbeat, the only song
you will not hear
until it's gone. |