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Religious tables are turned
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003 01:12 pm
I'm cleaning up my files today, and I found something I thought you'd all get a little laugh out of. Back when I was into my pagan thing and visiting pagan forums and such, the topic often came up about how others (mostly christianity) misunderstood what paganism was about, and therefore their summaries of paganism were less than ideal. Someone in one of the forums (I forget who, it was a while ago) posted the following paragragh as a tongue-in-cheek, turn-the-tables thing.
Catholicism:
It is not easy to draw a clear distinction between catholicism and insanity. Both are concerned with the maintaining of illusions beyond the powers of rational individuals to believe, by agencies of repetative behaviors, persecution of non-believers, etc. (cf. SCHIZOPHRENIA, INQUISITION). But in catholicism, as commonly understood, there is involved the idea of a cannibalistic pact with an "invisible" deity, or at least an appeal to the intervention of the saints of dubious authenticity. In such cases, this supernatural aid is usually invoked either to protect the sinful acts of some obnoxious person ("Bless me father, for I have sinned...") or to awaken the passion of tithing in those who are objects of desire to the parish treasurer, or to call up the winning bingo square, or to bring calamity or impotence upon protestants and other heretics. This is not an exhaustive enumeration, but these represent some of the principal purposes that catholicism has been made to serve at nearly all periods of Christendom's history"...
Catholicism:
It is not easy to draw a clear distinction between catholicism and insanity. Both are concerned with the maintaining of illusions beyond the powers of rational individuals to believe, by agencies of repetative behaviors, persecution of non-believers, etc. (cf. SCHIZOPHRENIA, INQUISITION). But in catholicism, as commonly understood, there is involved the idea of a cannibalistic pact with an "invisible" deity, or at least an appeal to the intervention of the saints of dubious authenticity. In such cases, this supernatural aid is usually invoked either to protect the sinful acts of some obnoxious person ("Bless me father, for I have sinned...") or to awaken the passion of tithing in those who are objects of desire to the parish treasurer, or to call up the winning bingo square, or to bring calamity or impotence upon protestants and other heretics. This is not an exhaustive enumeration, but these represent some of the principal purposes that catholicism has been made to serve at nearly all periods of Christendom's history"...
