{"id":5075,"date":"2021-09-07T07:56:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T12:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2021-09-07T07:56:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T12:56:57","slug":"sick-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5075","title":{"rendered":"Sick Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>7 Sept., 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>National Review<\/em> writer Brittany Bernstein reports in a 6 Sept. 2021 article, &#8220;You cannot be a &#8216;Good Catholic&#8217; and support abortion.&#8221;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/pelosis-archbishop-you-cannot-be-a-good-catholic-and-support-abortion\/\">https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/pelosis-archbishop-you-cannot-be-a-good-catholic-and-support-abortion\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hmm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; one wants to say, &#8220;no shit?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have we finally come to the light of this mighty epiphany?&nbsp; 50 YEARS into the holocaust and &#8220;the Church&#8221; figures out that it might be good to call excommunicate its holocaust operatives!&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;That&#8217;s real big of ya!&#8221; one might say.&nbsp; Or, &#8220;Nice leadership!&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a beacon of truth and holiness.&nbsp; Huh?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, that is not to say that the rest of Christendom is doing much better!&nbsp; I remember well all the back-turning I experienced from churches when I went to jail for blowing up the murder houses (a.k.a. &#8220;clinics&#8221; or &#8220;women&#8217;s centers&#8221; or other such hellish euphemism).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who knows what progress the &#8220;legislature&#8221; and &#8220;the courts&#8221; and &#8220;the legal system&#8221; will make in the next half-century.&nbsp; Maybe there will be bans against aborting &#8220;fetuses&#8221; who show signs of same-sex attraction.&nbsp; (How progressive!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, you can be a &#8220;Catholic,&#8221; if you support the holocaust, but just not a &#8220;good Catholic.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cool. That&#8217;s heavy, man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sick nation.&nbsp; Sick churches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 Sept., 2021 National Review writer Brittany Bernstein reports in a 6 Sept. 2021 article, &#8220;You cannot be a &#8216;Good Catholic&#8217; and support abortion.&#8221;&nbsp; https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/pelosis-archbishop-you-cannot-be-a-good-catholic-and-support-abortion\/ Hmm. &#8220;Well,&#8221; one wants to say, &#8220;no shit?&#8221; Have we finally come to the light of this mighty epiphany?&nbsp; 50 YEARS into the holocaust and &#8220;the Church&#8221; figures out that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,12,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5076,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions\/5076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}