March 27, 2006
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Yesterday I watched a thing on HBO On Demand on celibacy. No, I didn’t
watch it because things have been rather………er…………dry for
me recently. I watched it because it was about the scandal in the
Catholic Church and if it has any connection with priests having to
remain celibate. Turns out that celibacy among Catholic clergy was
started somewhere around 1139, which if you think about it, was not all
that long ago. Sure it was many years ago, even a few years
before Keith Richards was born, but I thought it would have been way
before then. I have always felt that forcing priests to remain celibate
played a major role in the pedophilia scandal and although I’m almost
certain it does, I’m not 100% convinced. The main reason being that
other religions such as Budism have the same celibacy requirement and
it is not rampant with pedophilia. Still, it is not normal to expect
people to shut off one of the most powerful drives in the human body,
the sex drive. I’m not defending these priests, the deserve everything
they get, but I’m merely suggesting that the Church plays a bigger roll
here and it almost makes the priests victims as well. For the most
part, honest celibacy does not exist among priests, whether they are
raping little boys or carrying on relationships with females, most of
them have some sort of release. They have to. Its my opinion that
forcing celibacy upon somebody is sadistic and almost amounts to a
version of mid-evil torture. Sure, everybody knows they are not allowed
to have sex, but they are also not allowed to masturbate or have any
fantasies or impure thoughts. Even wet dreams are wrong. So, when you
have no other release and have been told that something is forbidden,
it makes people act out in the most deplorable and inexcusable of ways.
Still, the stubborn and evil Church goes on and stands behind their
nearly thousand year old tradition. They are losing followers and
therefore power as this thing gets more out of hand, but its not enough
and not fast enough.I have friends and family that are still Catholic and I struggle to
understand why. The way I see it, if you continue to support the
church, you are an enabler to the Church and its evil ways, even if you
choose to look away. There are plenty of other spiritual choices out
there and by continuing to pledge your support to the Church, the
longer it will be before they are forced to take serious action. The
only way to force change is to stop supporting and enabling the Church
continue this cruel practice. Forcing people to cleanse themselves of
all intimate contact and sexual thoughts is inhumane and not healthy.
Any doctor will tell you that a healthy sex life is part of a well
balanced life, both physically and mentally. By supporting the Church,
supporters and Catholics worldwide almost become co-conspirators and
co-defendants in what has become one of the most tragic scandals in the
history of the Church. As is my understanding, there are many different
paths to God, why support one that has caused so much sorrow and pain.
What makes people continue to believe in the Church? Even people that
are fringe Catholics, they still call themselves Catholic. They tell me
“well, its not the Church that is doing it, but a small percentage of
sick priests.” This may or may not be true. All I know is, it is wrong.
And its more than the raping of little boys. Other priests commit
adultery with married ladies (and married men) because of this rule.
Don’t you get it? It IS the Church that is doing this. It might be the
priests that are committing these atrocities, but the Church plays Tony
Soprano to their Paulie Walnuts. Not only do they cover these crimes
up, they also defend these priests and then make the problem even worse
with that sick and disgusting celibacy rule. It is my belief that the
Church should be held accountable in these crimes, and part of the
accountability is losing followers. Its the only way.
