^ Radha Rajan's article, a must read.
Full of typically christian techniques of damage-control:
<!--QuoteBegin-Naresh+Mar 17 2009, 04:34 AM-->QUOTE(Naresh @ Mar 17 2009, 04:34 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Nuns treated like servants by priests : Cardinal</b>
Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil, who is president of Catholic Bishops Council of India, says the nuns are humiliated by priests and they live in fear.
The cardinal's views have appeared in his biography, much like the nun's own. If Sister Jesmi's book was called `Amen! Autobiography of a nun', Vithayathil's book is titled `Straight from the heart'. The cardinal tells his biographer Paul Thelakat, the spokesperson of Syro-Malabar Church, that the time has come to free the nuns from the "pitiable situation'' they are in.
"I would say to a great extent our nuns are not emancipated women. They are often kept under submission by the fear of revenge by priests. That's how the priests get away with whatever humiliation they heap upon them. It is a pitiable situation from which somebody has to liberate them,'' says the 82-year-old cardinal.
"A big complaint of our nuns is that the diocesan priests are treating them like servants, making them wash their clothes, prepare their food, wash the churches, etc and that too without getting paid. These are all unjust ways of treating the women religious.''
[..]
About the criticism against the clergy in the controversial Sister Abhaya murder, the senior priest says he believed that the Church had not tried to hide anything in the case. "The Church does not want to protect anyone.''
[...]
Vithayathil admits that there has been erosion in values in religious life. "I think asceticism has gone out of religious life.'' He also points to the growing gap between the clergy and laity.
[...]
Also, in what would be music to the ears of the Sangh Parivar, the cardinal lends legitimacy to arguments against religious conversion. "I must add that there is some truth in their contention that certain Christian groups are going about making mass conversions without any real conversion of heart.''
He says the Church believes in admitting to its fold "people who have belief in the Church'' and not in mass conversion of people "who have no faith and become Christians only nominally''. He, however, slams anti-conversion laws, which he says, have banned even legitimate conversion
[right][snapback]95542[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Look at that. The catholic church didn't know HOW fast to respond to Jesme's book. But, realising that <b>outright denial</b> won't get them anywhere now, they have set out to do what they do best: <b>minimise</b> the damage. Similar to the way they decided on the matter of the Jewish Holocaust that they naturally couldn't say they had protected the Jews - since everyone obviously knew otherwise. So, instead of owning up to how they genocided the Jews, they settled with "we didn't speak out", "our bad that we did nothing". And then they hoped people would not find out that what the church factually did was FAR worse than merely inaction: it was outright genocide.
Christianism. The times may change, but their penchant for lying and apologetics hasn't.
So what has the Cardinal 'confessed' to in the above:
1. Can't deny that christianism (in this case, catholicism) is terrorising its nuns: Jesme has revealed facts that truly shock the public. This cardinal does his best to reduce the blow by saying their women "are not emancipated enough", but "overworked". In the comparison, what he admits to is a much smaller 'crime' to the realities revealed by Jesme.
2. About the sister Abhaya case - which has finally come out - the cardinal still protects the church saying he thinks the church is innocent of having tried to hide 'anything'.
Exactly the same routine the Vatican pulled with the Jewish Holocaust: instead of admitting to how it helped track down those with Jewish origins, and forcibly euthanised people with disabilities (as part of the christian nazi eugenics programme), the church said it merely didn't do anything, that it had remained silent.
Same here: instead of admitting that the christians killed Abhaya and the church did its best to cover it up and not get caught, the accomplice-through-concealment cardinal decides that the church didn't try to protect anyone. How forthright of both church and priesty. Touching.
3. Now that facts about the eternal christian terrorism of the priestly (non) celibates has come out (that sexual predation in the church has been a matter of course since the church started, see for instance Krishen Kak's articles at Vijayvaani reposted somewhere on IF), the church has got all alarmed. Not wanting realisation of christianism's history and that of the church to dawn, they've decided the best tack is to admit things are bad now, but that they were originally good - that "there has been erosion in values in religious life". (With the intended conclusion that all this despicable christianist behaviour going on churches is "not christianism/the church's fault", but is due to "circumstances" or "the times".) The catholic cardinal does his best to cover up, with the words: "I think asceticism has gone out of religious life.''
As if there ever was any real asceticism in christianism. Even the early church fathers wrote about how the christian pretenders-to-asceticism in their times were actually rather lecherous, see http://freetruth.50webs.org/B3c.htm#Morality
4. The cardinal - forced to confess there's christian terrorism in converting Hindus - blames 'certain other christian cults' rather than his own. He reiterates the christian PR that they want individuals, not the masses. Well that ain't what they practise, that's just something they tell the heathens so the heathens' sense of right is appeased.
And <i>of course</i> the christian cardinal holds steadfastly to the christian directive that anti-conversion laws are EVIL, because (he points out) there are also 'genuine' conversions.
<b>Who cares.</b> Christianism itself is not genuine. It is a debilitating mindvirus.
Not only are the 'genuine conversions' very few, but "genuine conversions" to christoislamicommunism are as desirable as genuine conversion to nazism or sociopathy/terrorism. As in, not remotely desirable: No one wants nazis or terrorists or sociopaths - who cares if they genuinely <i>chose</i> this mental state. It's NOT a valid path. The followers are inevitably a danger to the existence of others. That's all there is to it. Ban conversion to christoislamicommunism. Make reconverting into Dharmic traditions - of those who've ended up in terrorism - a mandate.
Full of typically christian techniques of damage-control:
<!--QuoteBegin-Naresh+Mar 17 2009, 04:34 AM-->QUOTE(Naresh @ Mar 17 2009, 04:34 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Nuns treated like servants by priests : Cardinal</b>
Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil, who is president of Catholic Bishops Council of India, says the nuns are humiliated by priests and they live in fear.
The cardinal's views have appeared in his biography, much like the nun's own. If Sister Jesmi's book was called `Amen! Autobiography of a nun', Vithayathil's book is titled `Straight from the heart'. The cardinal tells his biographer Paul Thelakat, the spokesperson of Syro-Malabar Church, that the time has come to free the nuns from the "pitiable situation'' they are in.
"I would say to a great extent our nuns are not emancipated women. They are often kept under submission by the fear of revenge by priests. That's how the priests get away with whatever humiliation they heap upon them. It is a pitiable situation from which somebody has to liberate them,'' says the 82-year-old cardinal.
"A big complaint of our nuns is that the diocesan priests are treating them like servants, making them wash their clothes, prepare their food, wash the churches, etc and that too without getting paid. These are all unjust ways of treating the women religious.''
[..]
About the criticism against the clergy in the controversial Sister Abhaya murder, the senior priest says he believed that the Church had not tried to hide anything in the case. "The Church does not want to protect anyone.''
[...]
Vithayathil admits that there has been erosion in values in religious life. "I think asceticism has gone out of religious life.'' He also points to the growing gap between the clergy and laity.
[...]
Also, in what would be music to the ears of the Sangh Parivar, the cardinal lends legitimacy to arguments against religious conversion. "I must add that there is some truth in their contention that certain Christian groups are going about making mass conversions without any real conversion of heart.''
He says the Church believes in admitting to its fold "people who have belief in the Church'' and not in mass conversion of people "who have no faith and become Christians only nominally''. He, however, slams anti-conversion laws, which he says, have banned even legitimate conversion
[right][snapback]95542[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Look at that. The catholic church didn't know HOW fast to respond to Jesme's book. But, realising that <b>outright denial</b> won't get them anywhere now, they have set out to do what they do best: <b>minimise</b> the damage. Similar to the way they decided on the matter of the Jewish Holocaust that they naturally couldn't say they had protected the Jews - since everyone obviously knew otherwise. So, instead of owning up to how they genocided the Jews, they settled with "we didn't speak out", "our bad that we did nothing". And then they hoped people would not find out that what the church factually did was FAR worse than merely inaction: it was outright genocide.
Christianism. The times may change, but their penchant for lying and apologetics hasn't.
So what has the Cardinal 'confessed' to in the above:
1. Can't deny that christianism (in this case, catholicism) is terrorising its nuns: Jesme has revealed facts that truly shock the public. This cardinal does his best to reduce the blow by saying their women "are not emancipated enough", but "overworked". In the comparison, what he admits to is a much smaller 'crime' to the realities revealed by Jesme.
2. About the sister Abhaya case - which has finally come out - the cardinal still protects the church saying he thinks the church is innocent of having tried to hide 'anything'.
Exactly the same routine the Vatican pulled with the Jewish Holocaust: instead of admitting to how it helped track down those with Jewish origins, and forcibly euthanised people with disabilities (as part of the christian nazi eugenics programme), the church said it merely didn't do anything, that it had remained silent.
Same here: instead of admitting that the christians killed Abhaya and the church did its best to cover it up and not get caught, the accomplice-through-concealment cardinal decides that the church didn't try to protect anyone. How forthright of both church and priesty. Touching.
3. Now that facts about the eternal christian terrorism of the priestly (non) celibates has come out (that sexual predation in the church has been a matter of course since the church started, see for instance Krishen Kak's articles at Vijayvaani reposted somewhere on IF), the church has got all alarmed. Not wanting realisation of christianism's history and that of the church to dawn, they've decided the best tack is to admit things are bad now, but that they were originally good - that "there has been erosion in values in religious life". (With the intended conclusion that all this despicable christianist behaviour going on churches is "not christianism/the church's fault", but is due to "circumstances" or "the times".) The catholic cardinal does his best to cover up, with the words: "I think asceticism has gone out of religious life.''
As if there ever was any real asceticism in christianism. Even the early church fathers wrote about how the christian pretenders-to-asceticism in their times were actually rather lecherous, see http://freetruth.50webs.org/B3c.htm#Morality
4. The cardinal - forced to confess there's christian terrorism in converting Hindus - blames 'certain other christian cults' rather than his own. He reiterates the christian PR that they want individuals, not the masses. Well that ain't what they practise, that's just something they tell the heathens so the heathens' sense of right is appeased.
And <i>of course</i> the christian cardinal holds steadfastly to the christian directive that anti-conversion laws are EVIL, because (he points out) there are also 'genuine' conversions.
<b>Who cares.</b> Christianism itself is not genuine. It is a debilitating mindvirus.
Not only are the 'genuine conversions' very few, but "genuine conversions" to christoislamicommunism are as desirable as genuine conversion to nazism or sociopathy/terrorism. As in, not remotely desirable: No one wants nazis or terrorists or sociopaths - who cares if they genuinely <i>chose</i> this mental state. It's NOT a valid path. The followers are inevitably a danger to the existence of others. That's all there is to it. Ban conversion to christoislamicommunism. Make reconverting into Dharmic traditions - of those who've ended up in terrorism - a mandate.