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Silly Outrage Over Pope Picture Showed How Big Catholic Lobby Is In USA

posted a year ago by wayfarer (69)
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As an Atheist, I personally couldn't care less about a picture of the Pope being ripped up, in fact, I appluad anyone for doing that. Given the Catholic Church covering up all of their child-molesting priests.

And I doubt any Protestants or Evangelacists would care about anyone criticizing Catholicisim.

So who really cared? Only the catholics. And USA being a secular nation, partly born out of a hatred of the Catholic church itself. Why was this even an issue?

It showed how big the Catholic lobby really is in North America even in the 1990s. They shouldn't even get public funding for their schools.

Catholic schools end up being breeding grounds for all forms of xenophobia, pitting themselves against every minority you can think of. So then we have Catholic schools taking a stand against Pride flags. So they can teach the next generation of kids to hate.

I don't know if Catholic schools get public funding in the USA, but in Canada they do. And honestly, that is BULLSHIT.

As for Joe Pesci? He can go fuck himself all the way back to ITALY. It was the ROMANS who killed Jesus anyway, so he really should shut his mouth.

[–] Otter (24464) a year ago

I remember that flap, and it wasn't just the Catholics who "cancelled" her. American Christians of all stripes joined in the mob, even from denominations that despised Catholicism and the Pope, because they were outraged by the spectacle of a woman with a crew cut criticizing any form of Christianity. So the same people who'd have been happy to throw rocks at the Pope himself threw metaphorical rocks at O'Connor, because she made such an easy and convenient target.

And BTW I agree that it was a totally ineffective form of protest, she totally failed to get her message across. I knew nothing about pedo priests being protected at the time, like everyone else I found out years later. Well, O'Connor knew, and I don't know if the media just didn't transmit the message, or if she thought it was more important to show outrage than to tell people what she was outraged *about*. A lot of protestors make that mistake, they think it's more important to show fervor than to show what they're fervid *about*, because the next day the mainstream is saying "Why the hell are they blocking freeways/attacking police stations", your protest is a failure.