Things Catholic Radio Has Taught Me (Notes from an Exile)

[gardnerhill]

Just checking in on all the stuff I've missed out on ever since I escaped a few decades ago.

It's amazing what you can learn from just a few minutes of listening. This is stuff I never would have realized if I'd only gone by what I observed and knew from experience.

Things Catholic Radio Has Taught Me:1) Planned Parenthood is a billion-dollar

Comments

[jokan]

Yikes, they're bad! Glad I escaped decades ago. But none of the Catholics I still know believe any of that crap.

[gardnerhill]

The trouble with the fish here is that the head's rotten to the core - but the tail-end, the actual priests and nuns people deal with on a daily basis, are a good deal better than their hierarchy. (I've said for years that anyone who does good in the name of any religion is already better than the religion they profess.)

[ladyana5]

Agreed! The level of hypocrisy is just damn disturbing.

[gardnerhill]

It's the same illness espoused by the right-wing Republicans, personified in the Bush Administration. I call it "I'm always right, especially when I'm wrong."

[gardnerhill]

Yeah - my overall impression is Stealth Psychotic Toxic Fundie.

[aliensouldream]

What on earth are you doing listening to Catholic radio?

Live sharks! Classic.

[gardnerhill]

I saw the bumper stickers advertising the radio station - and no doubt inspired by the same impetus that leads you to pick at a scab, I thought I'd drop in and see if this Catholicism bore any resemblance to the stuff I knew growing up.

...As Judy Tenuta would say sarcastically, "Sorry I left!"