Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Screwtape would be proud

From the 'sin makes you stupid' dept. I heard Soraya Chemaly on the radio the other day talking about her article titled "I'm No Longer a Catholic. Why Are You?" It was so utterly inane I started yelling at the radio. The only way anyone could be as wrong as her on so many points would be that she has spent NO time studying and less time thinking.

She honesty believes this:
"At its core, this debate is about control. And not just birth control. Either you are willing to support and participate in a culture in which men, refusing to accept women as fully human, use a perverted claim of divine right to control women and their bodies, or you don't."

And in keeping with the 'Keep your rosaries off my ovaries.' song book they now have "I will start paying more attention to the bishops' position on birth control on the day a Catholic bishop becomes pregnant." not as catchy but they are working on it.

She is making progress towards the rank of journeyman deceiver

2 comments:

ElizabethK said...

OK, I couldn't make it through the whole thing, the stupidity was too blinding. I did catch the dismissal of lay women (she seems to have forgotten the existence of women religious, or did I miss that?) as being the lackeys of, yes, men. And then I just had top press the back button.

John Wright said...

""At its core, this debate is about control. And not just birth control. Either you are willing to support and participate in a culture in which men, refusing to accept women as fully human, use a perverted claim of divine right to control women and their bodies, or you don't."

Please notice that this is pure grade Political Correctness. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism, that is, even as Marx interpreted all economic history as the outcome of Darwinian struggles for power between mutually and eternally hostile blocs or groups or classes, so do the Political Correctors see culture as the outcome of a struggle between eternally hostile bloc or classes of identity-politics groups, in this case, women versus men.

Now, a man dropped down from Mars could see that men compete for the affection of women, and this talk of using religion as a controlling power is strange paranoia. And yet this is the most popular political philosophy of the modern day, because it is so simple, so very simple, to believe everything is a struggle for power.