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Not to beat a dead horse, but I went back one last time to the post about Mark\u2019s blog<\/a> I from the other day. \u00a0I answered briefly a late commenter who, following the liberal Protestant objection, asked why homosexuality is wrong if Jesus didn\u2019t specifically mention it? \u00a0Never mind he defined marriage as between a man and a woman. \u00a0We won\u2019t even get into the laughable exegesis that insists the Bible never condemns homosexuality except where it calls for homosexuals to be killed in Leviticus. \u00a0<\/div>\n
While answering her as best I could, I brushed through to see if anyone answered any of my last comments. \u00a0I do love having the last word. \u00a0While there, I noticed that, as I said, several had come to the post to cheer on Mark\u2019s observation that what the CoC did was nothing less than hate filled homophobic bigotry and evil. \u00a0That was not an issue, since that\u2019s mostly what Mark said; the Church of Christ had compromised Unconditional Love. \u00a0<\/div>\n
Then, as anyone with more brains than a sea sponge could guess, a couple people jump on the fact that a second Catholic \u2013 that\u2019s C-A-T-H-O-L-I-C \u2013 school had fired an openly gay teacher. \u00a0Pretty darn hateful wouldn\u2019t you say? \u00a0Clearly compromising the clear teaching about unconditional love, right? \u00a0<\/div>\n
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Those trying to pour water on the firestorm that Mark ignited jumped in to remain consistent, and said that the school, like the Church of Christ in question, had a right to stand on their beliefs. \u00a0Mark, however, suddenly looked, well, what can I say? \u00a0He was pithy and didn\u2019t go into detail, but you can see the problem. \u00a0For no other reason than this was a C-A-T-H-O-L-I-C school it is OK. \u00a0The teacher could have, well, lied maybe? \u00a0I don\u2019t know what he meant. \u00a0But clearly the school was a mother-beautiful example of Christ like love and firm standing on clear teachings passed down from the apostles. \u00a0Not like that evil Church of Christ that, according to CNN (which is always true and trustworthy), asked a woman who openly opposed the church\u2019s teachings to leave.<\/div>\n
That kiddies is what is known as \u201cSuperior-by-Catholic.\u201d \u00a0It\u2019s really a stereotype used by non-Catholics, but clearly there is a basis for it. \u00a0The idea is that if anyone else does it, even if it\u2019s the slightest deviation from holiness, it\u2019s just not good enough! \u00a0But if Catholics or the Catholic Church is a million times worse, well shucks, we\u2019re all just crazy sinners, and besides, those standards don\u2019t even apply to the Church since it\u2019s obviously right. \u00a0Again, for most Catholics, that\u2019s an unfair stereotype. \u00a0It\u2019s certainly not taught by the Church in any documents I\u2019ve found. \u00a0And it shouldn\u2019t be the M.O. of a serious Catholic apologist. \u00a0But on the Internet, across the Catholic blogosphere, alas it\u2019s not hard to see where it came from. \u00a0And nothing demonstrates that bizarre expression of non-Traditionalist Catholic Fundamentalism than Mark\u2019s condemnation of a Church for doing 10 of what he gladly excuses a Catholic school for doing 10,000 of earlier in the year.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Yes, I know someone could argue that this was different, it was only a school as opposed to an actual church, missing the obvious fact that a church in Evangelical Christianity might be different in form and nature than a Catholic Church. \u00a0But then you\u2019d have to wonder what all the hubbub was about when it came to asking mere Catholic schools to pay for Sandra Fluke\u2019s birth control, correct? \u00a0Well, not so fast! \u00a0<\/div>\n
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See where bad apologetics gets you? \u00a0Bozo time, and just the kind of thing that makes critics of Christianity and Religion in general drool over what appears to be a clear inconsistency in standards and belief.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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