Just heard this story. I sigh. Just when I was thinking of become less opinionated on this blog (I don't think I'm especially opinionated in real life, and can't easily account for the difference), and mellowing out, something like this happens that just screams out for me to comment on. It surprises me that anyone even listens to the Pope anymore, anyway. I know a few Catholics, and the Pope seems well behind his flock. I kind of feel like the Catholic church, as an authority, is really only maintained as a rather elaborate preserver of stained-glass windows. Apparently – from what I hear on the radio – people do, however, listen to the Pope. So, I'll get to the heart of the matter.
The Pope reckons that homosexuality is as much of a threat to humanity as the destruction of the rainforest.
Balls!
It's an unfortunate comparison, even, since if anything's a threat to the rainforest it's rampant, unthinking heterosexuality and the procreation that the Catholic church rather anachronistically – and in many cases criminally – still urges, I suppose since they want to increase the size of their flock and the numbers of ignorant poor who fill their coffers and whose lives are so desperate that they have to kneel and pray, and who are therefore vulnerable to poisonous theologies. I suppose, also, if I'm going to hit below the belt, that some in the Catholic church have very particular, personal reasons for wishing a continuing supply of children to take in hand.
Homosexuality, however, is not a threat to humanity. Look at the latest population figures and you'll see that. Or if the Pope is making a rather more esoteric point about the supposed perversion of the human soul, and if the Catholic church really wants to pursue such prejudices, then I think it must also relinquish any claims to universality and to current relevance.
Finally, not only will I reiterate that heterosexuality is a greater threat to humanity right now than homosexuality, I'll also go so far as to say that I personally find public displays of heterosexuality, and scenes of heterosexuality in films, disgusting and reprehensible. I'd like to see such displays banned, and a lot of smugness and complacent 'moral high-ground' would hopefully vanish with them.
I was just blogging about you as being my favorite blogger. One of the things I mentioned was how unopinionated you seem. :)I’ll say that if this blog represents the height of your being opinionated, then I think you’re doing fine. At least your opinions are amusing.
Hello.Just before coming up here to check my e-mail and so on, I was – believe it or not – thinking about how stupid my blog is. It’s reassuring that some people don’t find it to be stupid. So, thank you. I suppose if you don’t find it stupid that is a credit to your intelligence. By which I mean, I do think I have some vaguely intelligent starting points for what I write – or background thoughts to what I write – but I always feels like it comes out wrong somehow. The moment anything is put into words it seems very crude to me. At least, it does when I put it into words.Therefore, I think to recognise something good in my blog shows quite a well-developed skill at reading between the lines.Now, that was quite a risky tightrope between vanity and flattery, but hopefully the fact that it’s fairly honest will mean that it’s neither.At least your opinions are amusing.That’s what I tend to hope. They amuse me, anyway.
I personally find public displays of heterosexuality, and scenes of heterosexuality in films, disgusting and reprehensible.Not to mention, now its entering popular culture. Its fast becoming socially acceptable to wear sexuality on your cuffs. And thats alarming.In the same vein, have you noticed how groans and moans are fast finding their way into the backgrounds of music tracks?PS: Your opinions amuse and entertain me as well 🙂 .
I may be a bit more opinionaed than you are, but its hard to tell how others perceive me. I do have a similar sense to what you described in that I think I am more opinionated writing online. Actually, I’m not sure that I am more opinionated, but that is how I feel. I suspect it has to do with the whole words without the personal context of body language and whatever else. Besides, speaking to people online is disconcerting because I don’t really know who I’m talking to and that sometimes can put me a bit on edge. I also sometimes forget that others actual read my blog and I just blather on about what is on my mind. Then someone responds and I feel as if I have to somehow defend what I wrote. Silly me.I figure amusing is a good balance to any opinion. That way if I turn out to be wrong it isn’t a total loss.
In the same vein, have you noticed how groans and moans are fast finding their way into the backgrounds of music tracks?Yes. I dislike this kind of thing because it seems like an unpleasant sort of boastfulness or exhibitionism. For similar reasons, I usually dislike sex scenes in films and books. I usually find them to be very badly done, as if the people responsible have suddenly reverted to teenage bravado and showing-off, very poorly disguised under a layer of pseudo-sophistication.Just got a phonecall. More later.