(FYI I’m a confirmed, happily life-long-lapsed catholic as a legal adult, so ban me if you want, but this isn’t just some rando agnostic rant. I’m not the type to make a habit of trolling. it’s just, your organization sucks, and it’s sad there’s so many of you, and it’s sad you choose to clog up our limited server space with your junk, but hey, do your thing, I’m not here to say you shouldn’t be here, I’m just saddened that you catholics exist at all anymore!)
I mean, I don’t really care to have an answer as to why they care- that’s not really the point of my post. if you know why they care and you agree, then, wow! it’s ok you and your generation will all be dead eventually, and the window will shift slowly but surely away from your nonsense as it has for a while now
i wonder how much more time you would have for living like jesus- how much more time you could and would spend helping feed the hungry and housing the homeless, comforting the sick-
i wonder how much more time you would spend doing what you claim is the most important thing in life if you didn’t spend so much time worrying about if other people are being good catholics, and dictating with legislation if other people have to act like good catholics, rather than living by example which - i’m pretty sure - is how you’re supposed to act as a catholic, not by dictating to others that they MUST do the right thing or else they’re a criminal
yikes
anyway, happy solstice, transphobes! your bishops could be like 'make sure you spend extra time this cold holiday season helping the less fortunate among you who need food and shelter, and instead their organization is using its voice to… i dunno, you tell me if spending your holidays gathering signatures for a ballot initiative that dictates biological gender standards for children’s sports competitions sound like radical, unconditional love
does it sound like jesus to teach children to worry about who is better than the others at arbitrary competition? i’ll go ahead- nope, sure doesn’t! sure sounds like that’s just a whole lot of completely inconsequential bullshit compared to oh i dunno people starving, or hey how about starving children? sorry starving children of washington state! these awesome catholics chose to spend some time worrying about dictating who you compete against in shit that totally doesnt matter, instead of using the might and obscene wealth of their organization to systematically make sure every single one of you was well fed. theyre out here latching onto (the wrong side if you consider what they claim to believe) a political wedge issue (as if it benefits them when the population is divided), using their platform as champions of love to help some republican party hacks steal elections with manufactured outrage
y’all are just so embarrassing and somehow you go along like you don’t even know it
also to the ‘oh but im not transphobic-’ nope, shut up. you give this organization money? the catholic church? you’re part of the problem, you’re supporting them. and if you’re not actively changing their stance, then you’re condoning it, plain and simple!
(‘peace and grace’ my ass, you rabble rouser)
EVERYONE ENJOY THE LONGER DAYS!
You say you don’t want to have a conversation, but your persistence is evidence against this. When addressing the Catholic view of anything, none of it is one-dimensional. We can discuss dogmas, sure, but there are several different competing schools of philosophy, historic analysis, pragmatism, and how these things impact modern culture, science, law, etc. Large swaths of Catholic philosophy do not require Catholic dogma to stand on its own and much of what you don’t like is rooted in philosophy more than it is in dogma.
You don’t want me telling you how to live, that’s fine. I’m not. But you don’t live in a vacuum. People are going to tell you how to live. People are going to make laws for you and they are going to enforce them, like them or not.
If Catholics achieve some level of political power, enough to enact some laws, maybe your best bet is to learn to argue your point with a Catholic. To give you an example on a topic different from the one that brought your concerns here, we have the historic example of St. Thomas Aquinas arguing for the tolerance of prostitution. For someone who wants to not regulate certain internet websites, turning to the example of Aquinas might be a source of argument against internet regulation.
Throwing your hands up in the air and saying Catholics should not have political power is not very pragmatic.
The history of the Church is deep. If you want to argue something about biological males who identify as female participating in sports designated for females, come up with an argument. Just telling us we shouldn’t exist isn’t going to get you anywhere.