I just find it odd that when a rogue, extremist Muslim group killed
around 3,000 people, now mainstream America hates all Muslims, and
doesn’t trust any of them, even those who have been in this country for
generations, even those who have served in the military.
Yet,
tens of thousands of children around the world have been molested by
priests of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.That’s tens, if not dozens of
times more lives ruined than those killed on 9-11. Sure, you could say
at least they weren’t killed. But their lives were wrecked, and they
were left emotionally and psychologically scarred. Not by an extremist
group, either; this is as mainstream Christian as you can get. Not only
have these priests for the most part not been disciplined by the church,
in most cases the Vatican pays for their legal defense, and even helps
them flee the countries they live in if necessary. Again, not a splinter
group, not rogues, not “extremists” - mainstream Catholic priests,
supported by the Vatican. Bear in mind that if you’re Catholic, and you
tithe, you’ve contributed to the legal defense of child molesters. Think
about that for a minute.
Anyway, people get irate about
Muslims wanting to build a mosque pretty much anywhere, but don’t give
it a second thought when they see a priest. (Personally, I don’t want my
kids around a priest, and I’d be tempted to organize a protest against
proposed construction of a Catholic church near a daycare center or
elementary school.)
Why is that? I think a lot of it is because
people fear what is different. They’re comfortable with Christianity and
white people. They’ve gotten used to being around Hispanic, black and
Asian people. Arabs are still “foreign” in a lot of folks’ eyes. It’s
easier to hate what’s different. If they acknowledge just how embedded
child molestation is in the priesthood, they’d be forced to reexamine
their own beliefs and their own Christianity. But they don’t want to be
seen as racists, so they focus their rhetoric on Muslims, not Arabs.
Of
course, I could write an entire post about the atrocities that are
committed and shrugged off in the name of Islam, too, but at the moment,
I’m just pointing out the hypocrisy.
I’ll leave you with a Christian scripture to ponder:
Matthew 7:5:
Thou
hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye: and then shalt
thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brothers eye.
