Geesh. If a priest said something that dismissive about Jews because they were Jews, I wouldn't want him at my parish. If a priest said something that dismissive about blacks because they are black, I wouldn't want him at my parish. If a priest said something that dismissive about Hispanics, Muslims, Buddhists, homosexuals, women, atheists, or any children of God, I wouldn't want him at my parish. The same goes for saying something that dismissive about my sons simply because of their skin color, even if it happens to be the priest's skin color as well. Evil doesn't stop being evil because I say it about my own, even if it's what all the people at the best Hollywood parties with T&A say I should. I'm thankful, no matter what problems my parish has, that as of now, it has no priest like that.
Said it before, I'll say it again: just take CS Lewis' "dangers of national repentance" essay and replace "national" with "racial."
ReplyDeletehere I'll do it now:
"And repentance presupposes condemnation. The first and fatal charm of [racial] repentance is, therefore, the encouragement it gives us to turn from the bitter task of repenting our own sins to the congenial one of bewailing but, first, of denouncing the conduct of others. If it were clear to the young that this is what he is doing, no doubt he would remember the law of charity. Unfortunately the very terms in which [racial] repentance is recommended to him conceal its true nature. By a dangerous figure of speech, he calls the [race] not ‘they’ but ‘we’. And since, as penitents, we are not encouraged to be charitable to our own sins, nor to give ourselves the benefit of any doubt, a [race] which is called ‘we’ is ipso facto placed beyond the sphere of charity or even of justice. You can say anything you please about it. You can indulge in the popular vice of detraction without restraint, and yet feel all the time that you are practising contrition. A group of such young penitents will say, ‘Let us repent our [racial] sins’; what they mean is, ‘Let us attribute to our neighbour (even our Christian neighbour) whenever we disagree with him, every abominable motive that Satan can suggest to our fancy.’"
That is awesome I am going to copy and paste that.
DeleteGeorge Carlin had his flaws, but he was on to something when he said "Black Pride," and "Irish Pride," were absurd because pride should be reserved for accomplishments. Bacicaly, you shouldn't be "proud," of your ethnicity or what country you were born into since your will had nothing to do with it. The same could be said for apologizing. You can't apologize for something you didn't do. I hear all the time about people who are "Proud to be American," while others are "Ashamed to be American," and I wonder,"why? You didn't choose to be American. You can be proud of ways you have made America better, or ashamed of ways you have made America worse, but the actions of America as a whole (both the good and the bad) are mostly beyond any of tour's control. This was kind of a tangent, I realize.
DeleteI've seen worse today (from protestant clergy, not Catholic clergy). Guy's a poseur. Stick a fork in him.
ReplyDeleteOh, I've heard worse overall. This just caught me because, well, it isn't the 'we need to push a new racism', this is 'the racism is now entrenched, and we can simply assume it and move on from there.'
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