Courtesy of Alternet:
Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, took to LifeSiteNews during last week’s March for Life to defend his recent performance of an anti-gay exorcism. The gay rights foe explained that he performed the “minor exorcism” in order to “renounce Satan and break our relationship with the Devil” and “drive out the Devil from his influence that seems to be pervading our culture.”
He called the exorcism a “fitting” response his home state’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage, adding that it is appropriate for a time when the “church is under persecution or some opposition, and certainly the redefinition of marriage is very much in opposition to God’s plan for married life.”
Paprocki said that the exorcism was done out of love for gay people, whom he explained need to be disciplined like children being punished by their parents: “Like any good parent will tell you that sometimes you have to disappoint your child, sometimes you have to say ‘no’ and sometimes you even have to punish them.”
So to be clear, this bishop believes that gay people are possessed by the devil, and need to be punished for being naughty.
Oh yeah, that is definitely the way to reach out to the gay community.
Now see this is why we cannot have a reasonable conversation with these fundamentalist morons.
They see everything in the world the way that a small child sees the world, separated by good and evil.
You actions are either good, ie sanctioned by religion and the Bible, or evil, ie fun to do and things these hypocrites WISH they had the balls to do.
With that kind of mindset there is no way to have a frank conversation about homosexuality, abortion, premarital sex, evolution, or anything that the two sides disagree about. Because if you disagree with them you are under the influence of Satan.
Yeah that's a conversation stopper right there.
How about exorcising all the pedophiles who seem to permeate the Church.......that I can endorse......
ReplyDeleteI like reading about religions because I look for conformity, and when I find that, I consider if it might be valid. If it seems valid, I add it to my tool box. My tool box doesn’t have much in it. If things occur in Nature, I don’t see them as wrong, inconvenient perhaps, but not wrong. I don’t accept the “devil did it” argument. What a convenient old scapegoat he’s been!
ReplyDeleteWhich is exactly the crap that Hamm will pull during the so-called "debate". He won't DEBATE. He will simply SPOUT.
ReplyDeleteOops! Sorry. I meant to copy Gryphen's next to last paragraph for the above comment.
DeleteHe better watch his step or he will be the next bishop without a job. While the catholic church does believe and do exorcisms they are only done with vatican approval by certain trained clergy. The new pope made it clear to these fools to concentrate on doing the work of Jesus, which means loving everyone and helping the poor. I don't think this new pope is going to suffer many of these fools, a few have already been removed.
ReplyDeletesigned a recovering catholic...28 yrs since I gave up church for lent :)
Always avoiding the real question:
ReplyDeleteHey, Tommy, how many little boys have you diddled, and how many priest pedophiles in your closet?
This guy is trying to deflect attention from the crimes of the Catholic Church for enthusiastically sheltering pedophile priests from just prosecution and incarceration.
ReplyDeleteWho would want to believe in a god that this guy has conjured up? Hate mongers?
Too bad he can't do something useful like show at my home, recite some mumbo-jumbo incantation, and leave me with an immaculately clean house. Then, I might be willing to make a contribution. Jesus.
ReplyDeleteIf he can get rid of my evil dust and our evil dog hair probs when they start shedding their winter coat, he can exercise at my house too also.
DeleteDon't know how to contact Gryph directly but being snowed in in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies today have just been surfing the web. I found a youtube that was made for the owner of this blog. It's a whole 14 minutes,Gryph, but I just know you will enjoy it as much as I did!! It's as if it was made for you! Go to sarah palin at liberty university-an atheist strikes back!!!
ReplyDeleteHey, Bishop Poprocks. When was the last time you washed your own clothes? Cooked your own meal? Agonized over paying your own bills and balancing your checkbook? Worked at making your own marriage and family work? Saved for the kid's college?
ReplyDeleteOh, that right! You have "volunteer women" to scrub the skid marks from your underwear, cook meals, run the vacuum, dust, scrub, iron, shop, etc. And you don't get married, yet give "Advice" to those who do. Kind of like asking Sarah what she reads, eh?
And for entertainment, you sit in a dark booth listening to all the fun you're missing out on. - but that's STILL not enough, you need to drive the devil out of some of "God's" greatest creations and treat them as second class citizens.
Does the Roman Catholic Church exorcise Pedophile Priests? And if not, why? The Devil's in the details
Anita dear, must you be so critical? If that poor Bishop should happen to read your rant, why, it'll set him to spinning on his unlubricated dildo. Wouldn't want him to end up in the ER with it sideways up his butt; people would talk.
DeleteMaybe he should also go to West Virginia and exorcise all of that spilled formaldehyde!
ReplyDeleteTom, in FL