Vatican Website Censored By School

[John Ryan]

This is how the Holocaust began.  Jews were demonized.  They were portrayed as a problem.  Society learned to see them as evil people who deserved any mistreatment.  This is a typical pattern in any sort of mass scale persecution.  People have to be able to rationalize genocide before they start killing.  

 

I merely find it humorous how some Christians refuse to admit that the world today is not the first or second century. So many practicing Christians have a severe persecution complex. I love how it is the "beginning of the end" when one school blocks the Vatican website, but it is not the end when transgender people are harassed, beaten and killed. I love how it is not the beginning of the end when a State uses drone aircraft to kill innocent villagers in the Middle East. I love how it is not the beginning of the end when millions of people starve to death every year while the capitalist world gorges itself on their exploitation. 

 

Christian priorities are all screwed up.

[Luigi]

Have they blocked other religious sites? - Jewish? Methodist? Congregational? Quaker? 

 

My question is, "Are some religions approved (because they support the school's political agenda) and others not (because they don't support the school's political agenda). 

[PhuturePriest]

I merely find it humorous how some Christians refuse to admit that the world today is not the first or second century. So many practicing Christians have a severe persecution complex. I love how it is the "beginning of the end" when one school blocks the Vatican website, but it is not the end when transgender people are harassed, beaten and killed. I love how it is not the beginning of the end when a State uses drone aircraft to kill innocent villagers in the Middle East. I love how it is not the beginning of the end when millions of people starve to death every year while the capitalist world gorges itself on their exploitation. 

 

Christian priorities are all screwed up.

 

I love how it is the end of the world when people starve every year, but not one person stops to ask about the horrendous hair flip in your avatar. I also love how you don't actually love any of the things you stated you did.

[Perigrina]

I love how it is the end of the world when people starve every year, but not one person stops to ask about the horrendous hair flip in your avatar. I also love how you don't actually love any of the things you stated you did.

 

It is 60s hair.  It is best not to talk about it.

[Perigrina]

I merely find it humorous how some Christians refuse to admit that the world today is not the first or second century. So many practicing Christians have a severe persecution complex. I love how it is the "beginning of the end" when one school blocks the Vatican website, but it is not the end when transgender people are harassed, beaten and killed. I love how it is not the beginning of the end when a State uses drone aircraft to kill innocent villagers in the Middle East. I love how it is not the beginning of the end when millions of people starve to death every year while the capitalist world gorges itself on their exploitation. 

 

Christian priorities are all screwed up.

 

Obviously, here in the West, we are not yet facing martyrdom.  Recognizing the potential for this situation to arise in the future is scarcely a persecution complex, severe or otherwise.  Since you have a background in social sciences, you might appreciate The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptible Prejudice by Philip Jenkins (who is not a Catholic).  Here is the book description from Amazon: http://www.amazon.ca/The-New-Anti-Catholicism-Acceptable-Prejudice/dp/0195176049

 

Anti-Catholicism has a long history in America. And as Philip Jenkins argues in The New Anti-Catholicism, this virulent strain of hatred--once thought dead--is alive and well in our nation, but few people seem to notice, or care. A statement that is seen as racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, or homophobic can haunt a speaker for years, writes Jenkins, but it is still possible to make hostile and vituperative public statements about Roman Catholicism without fear of serious repercussions. Jenkins shines a light on anti-Catholic sentiment in American society and illuminates its causes, looking closely at gay and feminist anti-Catholicism, anti-Catholic rhetoric and imagery in the media, and the anti-Catholicism of the academic world. For newspapers and newsmagazines, for television news and in movies, for major book publishers, the Catholic Church has come to provide a grossly stereotyped public villain. Catholic opinions, doctrines, and individual leaders are frequentlythe butt of harsh satire. Indeed, the notion that the church is a deadly enemy of women--the idea of Catholic misogyny--is commonly accepted in the news media and in popular culture, says Jenkins. And the recent pedophile priest scandal, he shows, has revived many ancient anti-Catholic stereotypes. It was said that with the election of John F. Kennedy, anti-Catholicism in America was dead. This provocative new book corrects that illusion, drawing attention to this important issue.

 

There are, of course, many other evil or violent acts going on in the world about which one may express concern.  No matter how concerned we are, however, they are not relevant to determining whether or not anti-Catholicism exists and has the potential to become violent.

[Socrates]

It's not the end of the world, but it is a typical example of the hypocrisy of liberal "tolerance" and "openness to diverse viewpoints."