This makes me sick

[conuly]

Because she valued her unborn child more than her life, her other children went motherless. What sort of thing is that to do to your family, to tell them that somebody else who may not even live is more important than they are, that you love their little brother or sister more than you love them, that your god doesn't value your life enough to keep you with them? And now she's considered a saint. I'm sure this is a great comfort to her children now that they're grown up without her.

It's also nonsense, really. Traditionally, the fetus wasn't considered to have a soul until it moved... it "quickened" and quick in this sense means "live". So because she took an exceedingly strict view of life, she died. And the pope says she gave a "great sacrifice", but she didn't. She's dead. If she's right, she's happy in heaven, and if she's not, she's just dead. Her children and her husband, her friends and family, those are the ones who sacrificed for her.

Comments

[nerdinium.livejournal.com]

I was under the impression that in order to become a saint, you had to have at least two documented 'miracles'. I haven't read any mention of those.

The catholic bishops want to deny Kerry communion, but are not considering denying communion to republicans that are pro-choice like Rudolf Giuliani or Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Add this to the pedophile priest scandal, and for the first time, I am coming close to mentally classifying this religion as 'bad'. Considering I don't consider Satanists intrinsically bad, that is saying a lot.

[nerdinium.livejournal.com]

Ok, I should have read the article completely, they do have miracles associated with her. It does seem politically motivated, however.