{"id":1704,"date":"2010-08-26T08:41:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T13:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2010-08-26T08:41:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T13:41:59","slug":"is-the-catholic-church-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1704","title":{"rendered":"Is The Catholic Church Doomed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the media has a short memory and have already stopped talking about the massive child rape, child molestation, and the Vatican\u2019s efforts to cover it all up, many actual Catholics haven\u2019t forgotten so easily. As a result, many Catholics are leaving (or at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/atheism-in-philadelphia\/catholic-church-refuses-to-let-people-leave-the-church\" target=\"_blank\">least attempting to leave<\/a>) the Church. How close is the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Catholic Church\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catholic_Church\">Catholic Church<\/a> to the tipping point of doom?<\/p>\n<p>The problem isn\u2019t just the sex scandals; they have been going on for decades. The Church is facing other challenges that the former Pope recognized, but that the current Pope does not. Modernity is a bitch and she is slapping the shit out of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong, the last Pope thought that homosexuality is a sin, that condom use is mass murder, and all the other absurdities. The difference is that this Pope is actually saying this stuff out loud in a very vocal fashion. In America, the Catholic Church now has a fundamentalist wing most represented by Bill Donahue\u2019s Catholic League and now Michael Voris\u2019 Real Catholic TV. The Catholic Church has clowns running around as their spokespeople and a nut as their ringleader.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Church has been around for almost two-thousand years, so I don\u2019t expect it to come to and end overnight. But if they continue on their current course, they may reach the tipping point and start going down hill very quickly. With that in mind, I think it is important to keep the pressure on them and to continue to expose the dangers of even moderate association with the Church.<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"return addthis_sendto()\" onmouseover=\"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')\" onmouseout=\"addthis_close()\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;pub=dangeroustalk\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><script src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js?pub=dangeroustalk\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- AddThis Button END --><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles by Zemanta<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2010\/08\/23\/note-to-catholic-church-let-her-go\/\">Note to Catholic Church: Let Her Go!<\/a> (friendlyatheist.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/canterburyatheists.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/catholic-church-harboured-priest-at.html\">Catholic Church harboured Priest at centre of Terrorist Cell<\/a> (canterburyatheists.blogspot.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/breakingnews\/world\/view\/20100820-287809\/US-Catholic-Church-tarred-with-new-child-sex-abuse-scandal\">US Catholic Church tarred with new child sex abuse scandal<\/a> (newsinfo.inquirer.net)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=e23a9a90-1c91-4673-b534-ee2c23ab2c24\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1704\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 317364;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the media has a short memory and have already stopped talking about the massive child rape, child molestation, and the Vatican\u2019s efforts to cover it all up, many actual Catholics haven\u2019t forgotten so easily. 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