18 Nov 2008
Objectors to Noel's Funeral
There is nothing quite as disgusting as
hate filled people who disguise themselves as Christians. The son of my
recently deceased colleague, Noel Walsh, brought a forum thread to my attention
that begins by saying that the celebrant of the mass for Noel’s funeral should
be excommunicated for “allowing such an abomination”.
The thread is here: http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/apologia/vpost?id=3105653&highlight=noel+walsh&trail=42
I told David that he should ignore the
thread, because it even made me, who should be inured to such hatespeak after
hearing it for years, queasy. But I haven’t been able to ignore it. It’s been
on my mind ever since.
My uncle, who is a died-in-the-wool
Catholic priest, has often told my mother that I am going to hell. Not because
I’m gay, but because I practice my homosexuality. Like so many posters on the
thread about Noel’s funeral, he believes that I should choose never to have
love and intimacy in my life by dint of the fact that I was born gay.
In choosing to express my God-given nature,
my uncle and millions of indoctrinated Catholics believe that I am contravening
God’s law.
But how can that be possible? Surely if he
wanted me to be celibate, God would have made me asexual rather than
homosexual. What’s the point in creating people who are exclusively attracted
to the same sex and then expecting them not to act on it? Is God really that
stupid?
As history has proven time and time again,
the people who blindly believe in the ethos of the Catholic Church are indeed
like the metaphorical flock. A flock of sheep, willfully ignorant of actual human nature,
they follow and make pronouncements that their own God would be ashamed of.
They are not following God. They are following men who corrupt the word of God
for their own ends. Men who populate the Vatican and dream of all-to-human
power.
To get a good idea of what I’m talking
about rent the DVD of The Crucible for a damning indictment of the political havoc and
hate that religious indoctrination can wreak. And how stupid the whole
endeavour is.
The men and women who vented their spleen on the forum thread about Noel
should not be hated, as they have chosen to hate. As the deity they claim to love
so much said as he was being tortured and crucified by a different, misanthropic
and highly political religious regime, 'forgive them Father for they know not
what they do'.