The Global Post notes:
In recent weeks, in New Delhi a holy man called Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakootwale was exposed for running a huge call girl racket with over a 1,000 girls that serviced, among others, politicians and influential people.
In Bangalore, Swami Nithyananda -- whose ashram had several branches in the United States and all over the world -- was caught on camera having sex with an actor. Even as his shell-shocked devotees called for action, Nithyananda first said he was being framed by a digitally altered video. When a second tape with yet another actor surfaced, he admitted to the incident and fled the ashram with police hot on his tail.
Other swamis have been charged with cheating, rape and child sexual abuse. The wave of scandals involving holy men had one leading newspaper headlining, "baba black sheep, have you any scruples?"
The Mormon and other churches (and this) have also been hit with sex scandals.
"Demanding that priests be celibate only forces them to hide their strong sexual drives but pretend that they are asexual, so so that they can keep their positions and their robes. That is a recipe for perversion, instead of the expression of normal sexuality."
ReplyDeleteNow there's first class analysis for you. I mean, really, Washington, is it possible for one person to be as abysmally ignorant of the reasons for clerical celibacy as you are? I know this might come as something of a shock to your sensibilities but, happily, most Catholics aren't cursed with the same, rather hacknied, pedestrian grasp of these questions that you are. Your vision of the priesthood is that of the typical outsider who imagines himself competent in such matters and who derived the bulk of his opinions on religion in college dormitory discussions when he was nineteen. I'd call your's Catholic hating but, then again, you've assured us in the past that some of your best Catholics are friends, haven't you.
Andrei Vyshinsky
This corrupt behavior has little to do with religion and much to do with being at the apex of power. Whether its the power that corrupts the good, or the position attracts the corruption, you will find that people of all cultures and countries become more and more evil the more powerful they become.
ReplyDeletewell I can't say that I am shocked. Religion has been used for wars, and now its being used for sex....
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Yo, Anonymous! Celibacy is hardly the problem. The last thing homosexuals want---whether celibacy is in place or not--- is a woman. At least relative to Catholicism, the problem is the homosexual infiltration which since the 1960's has affected all levels of government, religion and societies in the West and beyond. More than 90% of all the trouble in the Catholic Church has been caused by less than one percent of Catholic priests, and they have directed their abandon to teenage boys when girls were just as available in congregations and as altar servers.
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The last thing homosexual men want is women and marriage. More than 90% of all the trouble in the Catholic Church has been caused by less than one percent of all Catholic priests; and these have directed their abandon to teenage boys, when girls or women were just as present in congregations, and as altar servers, lectors, etc. All levels of government and society since the 1960's have been affected by this infiltration of decadence.
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Catholic parents need to let their gay kids be gay instead of freaking out and carting them off (at 16) to the stunting grounds of the seminary where they get jumped by a bunch of old queens.
ReplyDeleteDon't they call it the "Roman" Catholic Church? What part of "Roman" sexual deviancy do you not understand? Were not the "Romans" extremely guilty of homosexuality?
ReplyDeleteAs for this "Swami" people all over the world must come to the conclusion as we enter the Aquarian age that religion is a dead notion from our unenlightened past and spirituality should govern them from this point on. No more control by those scoundrels whose seek power based on "Beliefs." Beliefs are for children; Adults must KNOW, not BELIEVE whats happening around them.