C0unterfactual@sh.itjust.workstoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Reeling from Hamas' massacre, a kibbutz pleads for the return of hostages
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11 months agoAiming guns at soft targets and slaughtering them makes them, by definition, terrorists.
Aiming guns at soft targets and slaughtering them makes them, by definition, terrorists.
I am a Gen-Xer who was raised Catholic in America. The old-school church values of my childhood in the 1970s were mostly liberal democratic, promoting humility, circumspection, and Golden Rule, love-thy-neighbor attitudes. (Setting aside the entire organization’s liability for the systematic raping of children, that is, which is a lot to ask.)
But with the more extreme politics of groups like Opus Dei, the modern Catholic Church in America, by contrast, has become a right-wing propaganda machine. It promotes a noxious brand of pseudo-religious pomposity and holier-than-thou windbaggery, practiced by preening, empty-headed bigots and jackasses who couldn’t find real spirituality if it bit them in the ass.*
*Just my opinion, but I’m fucking right.