Full-page ad in The New York Times: "It's time to quit the Catholic Church"...

[Michie]

NYT Ad: Quit The Catholic Church


The New York Times published and ad from the Freedom From Religion Foundation which calls for nominal and liberal Catholics to abandon the Church.

The ad asks "Why are you propping up the pillars of a tyrannical and autocratic, woman-hating, sex-perverting, antediluvian Old Boys Club? " and states "No self-respecting feminist, civil libertarian or progressive should cling to the Catholic faith." [Full Text Below.]

It goes without saying that the brave brave NYT would never accept and publish an ad criticizing Islam in the same way. But leaving aside the obvious cowardice and their disgraceful perfunctory anti-Catholicism, I think the ad is good. If that is what you believe, get out.

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Full-page ad in The New York Times: "It's time to quit the Catholic Church"...

 

[Brooklyn Knight]

Question to ask your Bishop: Does he hold up an umbrella against the rain? Isn’t that just as “unnatural” as using a condom or diaphragm?

LOL.

I could make a comment but I don't feel like getting an infraction.

And yes, if you feel that highly with regards to contraception, then it is in fact time to leave the Church.

Adios!

 

[AMDG]

I couldn't help but notice that the letter is from an organization touting "Freedom *FROM* religion". I guess that even they admit that it's about religion and *not* a "war on women" like the media has been saying.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

No self-respecting feminist, civil libertarian or progressive should cling to the Catholic faith

Have they got a point?

 

[Kristos]

What a load of tripe. Their modernist philosophy is soooo 19th century...

 

[BabyChristian22]

Liberals and nominal Catholics really do need to make up their mind of which master they want to serve, God or Obama.

 

[mohawk]

The New York Times has had an agenda against the Catholic Church for years. Does this really surprise anyone?

With the internet, 24 hour cable news & the waste of trees to print rag papers, maybe it's time to abandon the New York Times for the dinosaur it has become.

 

[JacktheCatholic]

The New York Times has had an agenda against the Catholic Church for years. Does this really surprise anyone?

With the internet, 24 hour cable news & the waste of trees to print rag papers, maybe it's time to abandon the New York Times for the dinosaur it has become.

I do not and have not really read the New York times. But, this is good to know.

 

[benedictaoo]

Liberals and nominal Catholics really do need to make up their mind of which master they want to serve, God or Obama.

Traditional Catholics too... IMO.

There's only room for one kinda Catholic.

 

[tadoflamb]

Haven't nominal and liberal Catholics already quit the Church?

 

[benedictaoo]

Have they got a point?

I think they have here.

the pillars of a tyrannical and autocratic, woman-hating, sex-perverting, antediluvian Old Boys Club

The Church and/or its members are totally guilty of this.

 

[isshinwhat]

I think they have here.

The Church and/or its members are totally guilty of this.

Seriously, Bene...? Woman-hating...? Sex-perverting?

 

[benedictaoo]

not "the Church" but some ppl in the Church- heck yeah. and good old boy is SO, SO true. I know first hand so don't no body even go there with me.

and what are the pedophiles if not perverts? these things are true...

there is a lot to fix in the Church but the answer is to not bail out.

 

[tadoflamb]

I don't know, for a Church full of women haters my parish seems to be run by women.

 

[Foundthelight]

I don't know, for a Church full of women haters my parish seems to be run by women.

As is our Diocese.

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

It is called divide and conquer.

 

[Wolseley]

Question to ask your Bishop: Does he hold up an umbrella against the rain? Isn’t that just as “unnatural” as using a condom or diaphragm?

Is this an oblique way of admitting that liberals don't know enough to come in out of the rain?

The New York Times has had an agenda against the Catholic Church for years. Does this really surprise anyone?

With the internet, 24 hour cable news & the waste of trees to print rag papers, maybe it's time to abandon the New York Times for the dinosaur it has become.

The New York Times is yet another Jurassic media outlet that's sloshing around in its swamp, vainly trying to figure out why the water keeps getting colder.

And as its number of subscribers gets ever smaller and the icicles form on the fern trees, it will eventually freeze and topple over in the swamp, extinct for eternity, while the new real outlets for news on the Internet gain more and more and more readers every year.

Same thing for book publishing companies. Authors submit manuscripts that are read and rejected by junior editors with the intelligence range of a trout fly, so the author simply turns around and put his book on Kindle. No middleman. And the New York publishing houses likewise flounder around in their swamp, vainly trying to figure out why the water keeps getting colder.

You better wake up, publishers----it's a whole new world out there; and if you're not careful, you ain't gonna be part of it.

 

[Gwendolyn]

Well, the ad has one thing right -

"If you imagine you can change the church from within - get it to lighten up on birth control, gay rights, marriage equality, embryonic stem cell research - you're deluding yourself."

 

[Gwendolyn]

I don't know, for a Church full of women haters my parish seems to be run by women.

Mine is, too.

Edit: but also, I have definitely encountered chauvinism and misogyny among the clergy.

 

[Brooklyn Knight]

I wonder where the scrutiny is against some forms of Judaism; after all, some branches only allow women to worship in a Synagogue...as long as they sit above while the men are below with the Rabbi.