Courtesy of Right Wing Watch:
“They believe that freedom is license to do whatever they want,” the Catholic League president explained. “They don’t want to be told anything, which is why they die prematurely, they’re unhappy, that’s why we have a disproportionate number of agnostics and atheists in the asylum, all of this is true.”
Donohue said “secularists” have an inferior “mental health, physical health and degree of happiness,” adding: “They got to work it out, fine, I’ll help pay for their therapy, just take your hands, your mitts off the Catholics during Christmas.”
One has to wonder just how many secularists Donohue has even knowingly met in his life.
By the way, and this is really not proof of anything definitive, but in my personal experience people who are suffering from a substantial mental health problem are quite often profoundly religious people.
In fact one of my all times craziest experiences was dealing with a young man who was in the middle of a psychotic break and having an actual back and forth conversation with Jesus about whether he should kill me or not. (Apparently Jesus said no to that. Good guy that imaginary Jesus.)
Not to be too flip but it is hard to take a person who believes that wine and crackers magically turn into blood and flesh seriously about who is, or who is not, crazy.
Just saying.
Yeah . .
ReplyDeleteDonohue is actually the poster boy
for crazy and religous.
I don't think he's really very religious. Seriously religious people don't make ignorant generalizations about people.
DeleteBeaglemom
Donahue is so over-the-top that I can't believe that the Church hasn't disavowed him by now. It appears most of his time is spent looking for pop culture stuff to be offended by, and there aren't many people around who come across as more BITTER than he does.
ReplyDeleteLOl!
ReplyDeleteBack at 'em!
He's projecting.
ReplyDeleteIt's going to be a hard sell to convince secularists that religion causes sanity and happiness, especially if you choose an angry, agitated rant as the vehicle for your message.
ReplyDeletePeace on, angry, bigoted religious people. We hear your message loud and clear. Every day. And it sounds nothing like sanity and happiness.
Amen to that, 5:32!
DeleteIf believing in and celebrating the virgin birth of the son of a god isn't crazy, I don't know what is.
ReplyDeleteThis "war on Christmas" has got to stop. By that I mean that the far right has got to stop waging war on Christmas. No one else has ever attacked it. Catholics in the past had no problem with keeping the Christmas creche on church grounds and not in front of City Hall. It wasn't until fundamentalist Protestants suddenly discovered the Christmas creche and the cross (no earlier than the 1990's, before then they were symbols of Catholic idolatry) and they're the ones who've wanted to flaunt their fake religiosity on everyone else. Then Fox News took on the crusade. This Donohue guy is the latest Fox "grinch" model.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was growing up, none of my Protestant friends had crosses on the walls of their homes and they didn't have Christmas creches on the mantle pieces either. It never bothered anyone. All of the children just loved Christmas - from the songs to the possibility (faint though it was) of snow. We all went to our own churches at Christmas and celebrated the religious aspects of the holiday in our own ways and then came home and had fun.
I have always loved the Christmas season. All of it. From the beginning of Advent straight on. I love Christmas cards, presents, fresh-baked cookies and treats, sacred music and church services. It is a joyous season and a season of hope, something we sorely need in these precarious times.
Beaglemom
Apparently, all secularists end up in straight jackets. This is what, from Donahue's admission, uncensored reality does to people-- it's a slow, foolish death-by-exposure.
ReplyDeleteThe crutch of religion is the coping mechanism that keeps Donahue out of the looney bin. It has strengthened him into the healthy, loving and morally evolved angel who each day graces humankind with his glowing golden bullshit.
He believes that life is inherently painful and worthless. Only a permanent psychotic break makes it liveable. I indeed "pay for his therapy" with tax dollars that help sustain his addiction. Obviously, it's working-- what a kind, beautiful and huggy saint he is!
A pal of mine in the psychiatric field says exactly the opposite of dear Bill. She says most of her patients are religious and overwhelmingly RCC. The ones who are nonbelievers are in therapy because of abuse from religious spouses!!!
ReplyDelete“They believe that freedom is license to do whatever they want,”
ReplyDeleteThe real 'freedom to do whatever they want' is given to those who are religious because they can 'do whatever they want' and declare "the devil made me do it and now that I have taken Jesus into my life, I am cleansed of all sin". That's real freedom.
Got to say, I've never been offended by secularists or atheists at Christmas. Never. Maybe I'm not looking for a fight with them.
ReplyDeleteIs it possible that these guys like Donohue are looking for an enemy under every bushel, so they can make a fast buck by writing a book about it?
What is it with these people? Who is trying to undermine the meaning of Christmas? If the 'meaning' means an intimate love for Christ and the gospel, why do the Donahues and Camerons and Palins continue to heap for themselves treasures in their bank accounts because of it, especially when Christ asked them to not heap treasures for this world but lay their treasures in heaven (meaning being nice?) How many non-celebrity christians or, specifically catholics, worry about the secular part of Christmas? Who is removing their joy? They seem to enjoy the holiday just fine. Midnight masses aren't being cancelled. Obama is not taking their creches away.
It's an affront to real christians especially ones who don't live in the affluent neighborhoods and who celebrate quietly and peacefully, and who don't make demands and expect salutes and bow-downs from the store clerk.
This guy is a crazy hateful nutball just like all fundy fake Christians. He gets off on his spittle.
ReplyDeleteI have always wondered who is a member of this Catholic League other than Mr. Donahue.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure anyone is. Despite what he would like people to believe, his "organization" is not affiliated with nor condoned by the Catholic Church, and they have regularly condemned things he says.
DeleteAnd, you know, when you are too nuts for some of the bishops of the Church, you have real issues.
Is it time to point out that this whole wine into blood, bread into flesh stuff is ritualistic cannibalism? I mean, UGH!
ReplyDeleteM from MD
What can I say? 'Tis the season to do unto others before they put you in an asylum where you yourself belong, Right Mr. Donahue?
ReplyDeleteI so agree with M from MD. Celebrating ritual cannibalism every week, and he's calling secularists "crazy"?
My son's girlfriend's parents sent me their annual holiday card, along with the words "Please come Worship The Lord with our family at Midnight Mass", then the obligatory "what the Fockers have been up to this year" mini novella.
Can't blame them for trying, they're trying to be "nice" in their own way, but they get the same answer they give me when I welcome them to our home for Christmas. Crickets Chirping.
It's a lucrative schtick for Donahue.
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