Slashdot Mirror
Church Turns To Facebook To Find Priests
crimeandpunishment writes "The Catholic church of France isn't looking for friends on Facebook, it's looking for priests. The church has turned to Facebook as part of a campaign to attract young people to the priesthood, in an effort to combat its drastically dwindling number of priests. It may be working. The Facebook page attracted more than 1,200 fans in one week."
I say fuck religion, especially Christianity. ESPECIALLY when it's French Christians.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits" - Albert Einstein
As the gay marriage discussion has shown there will be hordes of opposing zealots who don't want their concept of marriage tainted... Why would it be any different for this 'unholy heathen change' to religious marriage-code that might destroy both the religious pillars of marriage and celibacy?
We *know* this is a rational idea, so we can assume the church won't.
Oh yeah, and good point about the non-inheritance. But this holds for most doctrine... contrary to what I originally thought (and most people just assume) religion is shaped more by politics than anything even remotely religious. Most 'religious conflicts' are just political in nature with religion thrown in the mix to really get people bat-shit crazy and willing to do anything. So religion is actually a tool (a strong one) to better establish your political power.
Yes, the jokes will continue.
Yes, the RCC has no one but themselves to blame for the PR mess they find themselves in, so they and all their apologists can STFU, as far as I am concerned.
I'd be happy to explain why my religion has a higher level of sexual abuse, if it had one. That's one of the nicest things about my religion. The "clergy" aren't semi-cloistered males whose normal libido's have been repressed to the point that they must turn to victimizing innocent children because that seems to be the safest outlet for their now twisted urges. It also does not have a "church" hierarchy that could attempt to systematically hide such crimes from it's "congregation" and worse, expose ever more children to the abuses perpetrated by it's priests.
"They need to change" says the anonymous individual who writes on the interweb and thinks he knows better than the Catholic Church. Lol. Of course the Church has been changing since the year 0 A.D., it's just not the kind of "change" that you want to hear about and instead just stick your head in the sand and spout lah, lah rubbish. Go set up your own church seeing as you know better and see how long it takes you to get 1.1 billion followers.