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Your Easter Sunday Homily: Unholy Schadenfreude.

Events of the past year have thrown the Catholic Church, its leaders, its philosophy, its politics, and its followers, into an increasingly unflattering light. As I read news reports, with their attempts to scapegoat the traditional homosexual culprits, their attempts to paint their accusers with the "antisemitic" brush (a truly hypocritical stance, given centuries of Catholic antisemitism), their attempts to claim that press reports are simple "gossip", rather than shining the light of day on their pederastic proclivities and what, anywhere else, would be called conspiracy and racketeering, I can't help but feel joy.

Of course, this is the definition of schadenfreude. It's the pleasure that comes from the misfortune of others. As an atheist who regards himself as humanistic, compassionate, and rational, schadenfreude might not be the most productive or realistic response. But still, I feel it.

I know, as certain as I know the sun will come up tomorrow, the recent troubles will not mean the end of the malignant Catholic influence over tens of millions of people. If these people could think logically, they would already know that the "one true church" of "love" would not have supported kidnapping and taking in war, of slaves, to be kept under the yoke in inhumane oppression. The Catholic church would not have supported, over and over and over again, rounding up and murdering Jews, throughout history in Europe, pogroms and inquisitions, not excluding Catholic silence regarding the Holocaust. They would know that the horrendous tortures, enacted by the Church and its representatives, are closer to Satanic than holy. They would know that the Catholic Church, which did not speak out against regimes of abuse and kleptocracy in South America, Haiti, Phillipines, and other countries, does not show love for the poor.

That the Catholic Church is the worldwide "Man-Boy Love" institution can't come as any suprise to Catholics. Religious catholics are used to lying to themselves, and giving their "Morality" over to men who claim to hold moral and intellectual superiority over them.

So while I really don't beleive that current events will cleanse the stained glass of the grime and suet from hundreds of years of candle burning, and let the sunlight of reason shine into the cathedrals, I take no small pleasure from the fact that, for a while, the self-deceiving bigots who run and support the Catholic church, are squirming a bit in their pews this Easter Sunday morning, - not just because that altar boy has such a sweet voice, but because they've been caught thinking about it and acting on it. And maybe, just maybe, a few Catholics will be hit over the head by a 2X4 epiphany of "oh - the Chuch says one thing, and does another" and cease their self deception.

That's my 2 cents on Easter Sunday morning.

Tags: Catholicism, hypocracy, pederasty, schadenfreude

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Permalink Reply by Richard Healy on April 4, 2010 at 12:01pm

Schadenfreude - is that what this warm, tingly glow is? I wondered.

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Permalink Reply by Rusty Gunn. on April 4, 2010 at 12:35pm

Yeah, that's how one feels when one's nastiest adversary mistakes a turd for a fart and drops a load in his/her pants!

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Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on April 4, 2010 at 12:37pm

This is an excellent post Daniel, but one not suitable for "Introductions". I will leave it to you where you'd like to put it.

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on April 4, 2010 at 12:42pm

damn text editor. i put it back where i intended now.

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Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on April 4, 2010 at 1:16pm

Heh. No problem. I reckoned you already had a specific place you'd like to stick it.

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Permalink Reply by Ally on April 4, 2010 at 2:29pm

Ah Schadenfruede! (I love this word!)
It is indeed sweet! while it lasts
Unfortunately it only serves to remind me how many people continue to be victimized by this grotesque death cult! sigh!

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on April 4, 2010 at 7:31pm

And the spokespeople of the Catholic Church, bring out their self defence on the celebration of the Resurrection. Clearly, they are squirming, and the Vatican is happy to thrown them under the bus to protect the Pope. "In an extraordinary departure to the ritual of Easter Mass at St. Peter's Square, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, a senior Vatican official and Dean of the College of Cardinals, staunchly defended Pope Benedict from what he called ''petty gossip'' and hailed his ''unfailing'' leadership and courage in leading the church's response to the crisis." PoliticsDaily.com.

"Sodano's remarks came two days after the papal preacher, Father Raniero Cantalamessa, sparked more controversy when he delivered a Good Friday homily to the pope and senior Vatican official in St. Peter's Basilica comparing the media coverage of the scandals to centuries of [Catholic] persecution against the Jews. " (word in brackets was mine)

And from the Guardian,
Senior Catholics across Europe today apologised for the way the church had dealt with paedophile priests and acknowledged the damage the scandal had caused to its moral authority. In Easter sermons that revealed penitence, shame and shortcomings, archbishops in Armagh, Dublin, Edinburgh, Vienna and Westminster asked congregations for their forgiveness and urged them not to abandon the church because of past sins. But there was no apology from Rome, as Benedict XVI maintained a steadfast silence about the crisis in his annual Urbi et Orbi – To the City and the World – address.

Past sins, indeed - and present sins of commission, obfuscation, scapegoating, and rhetorical lies - the bearing of false witness against their accusors and the innocents who they abused.