tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post7402264227021388921..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: The Children's CrusadeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-8737523447451791672014-06-12T14:26:05.683-05:002014-06-12T14:26:05.683-05:00lawrence--
Perhaps the Christianity of the Rev. D...lawrence--<br /><br />Perhaps the Christianity of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which chose him to be their spokesperson.<br /><br />Oh, and all the churches, mostly African-American, which actively supported that movement for two decades.<br /><br />Just to start with....Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-21663088789453676412014-06-11T17:44:58.433-05:002014-06-11T17:44:58.433-05:00"Oddly, when a church is caught in complicity... "Oddly, when a church is caught in complicity with a policy we belatedly condemn, that failing is noticed. When a church is in the midst of a great struggle we belatedly affirm, the actions of the church are ignored and swept aside."<br />The slaveholders of the South invented a racist theology to tell themselves that slavery was a noble christian institution. The Supreme Court argument against Jim Loving's marriage was explicitly expressed as christian theology. The political coalition we call the religious right organized as a response to school desegregation. Whose christianity should we credit for the civil rights movement? Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429309964648275918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-43753156049025588832014-06-09T19:37:35.001-05:002014-06-09T19:37:35.001-05:00One of the records I found online and then, subseq...One of the records I found online and then, subsequently lost (the Galway county website is not what we used to call "intuitive") had records of problems with sewage at the workhouse in the 19th century. I first wondered if it had something to do with this, then, after I couldn't find any more about it, I dropped that speculation. <br /><br />While working in the garden this afternoon, I realized that the accusation that the Tuam story was like the Butter Box Babies murders wasn't true because there isn't any evidence that the babies who died at Tuam were intentionally starved to death or poisoned. <br /><br />I would guess that no matter kind of evidence that comes out that contradicts the most widely spread and sensational parts of this story, from now on it will be spread in its original form. Religion bashing need never be true for it to survive. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-35883431886690892062014-06-09T14:27:16.834-05:002014-06-09T14:27:16.834-05:00The CIA's MK Ultra program that Frank Church u...The CIA's MK Ultra program that Frank Church uncovered did horrific things to children, I seem to recall on instance of an institutionalized child being given LSD for days and days in an attempt to wipe his mind clean, though it's been a long time since I read much about it. What information Richard Helms, the director of the CIA and Dr. Sidney Gottliebe, who was in charge of the program, didn't destroy was pretty horrific, showing dozens of universities in the U.S. and Canada, state hospitals and all kinds of other institutions and businesses (one, as I recall, was a brothel) were involved with giving people LSD without them being aware of it, without consent, sometimes the researchers didn't even know what was going on. And that was well after the U.S. tried and executed war criminals for human experimentation. <br /><br />The Catholic Church, certainly any orders or institutions who violated rights and abused people should be held responsible and, especially, given its stand on confessing sins, it should admit its wrongdoing and make anything right that it possibly can. And it should make sure that nothing like that happens again. But I'm not convinced that the people using the scandal at the institution for unwed mothers in Tuam are really interested in that, they just want to bash a church, preferably the Catholic Church. In researching the article I read some of the local reports that praised the Sisters of Mercy for their devoted care of people during the influenza outbreak, which was killing people in large numbers. While that doesn't make up for the possible wrongs done by another religious order, it helps to show that even though both were orders of Catholic nuns, the ones who didn't do anything wrong aren't guilty of the sins of the ones who may have. They certainly aren't responsible for the Butter Box Babies scandal as the idiot who made the comment claimed, since the two child murderers in that case weren't even Catholic and weren't exactly running what was supposed to be a religious institution. Theirs was more like the baby farming operations from Victorian times, which were obviously well known even as they were allowed to continue operating. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com