{"id":55,"date":"2011-07-29T06:36:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T11:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unwelcomedcompany.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2011-08-02T06:56:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T11:56:43","slug":"mental-farts-from-my-catholic-indoctrination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Mental Farts from my Catholic indoctrination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Nuns: you can kiss a nun, you just can&#8217;t get into &#8220;The Habit&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Brothers: how can you trust a man who lives with other men, can&#8217;t have a relationship with a woman, wears a housecoat all the time, and lacks fashion sense to the point of ignoring using a belt but instead wears a knotted rope to\u00a0accessorize\u00a0his outfit?<\/p>\n<p>On Priests: why go to a man (who has chosen\u00a0celibacy as a way of life) for\u00a0guidance on marital life&#8217;s ups and downs?<\/p>\n<p>More on Priests:\u00a0Rescinding the\u00a0Celibacy rule, limiting the Masses per morning that a priest can celebrate (during the\u00a0Eucharist, multiple glasses of Our Lord&#8217;s Blood (sweet wine)\u00a0might cloud one&#8217;s judgement), and surround him with young boys on their knees dressed in lacy frocks, perhaps would cut down on some of the\u00a0occurrences\u00a0of sexual abuse<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0Symbolism: I understand the\u00a0sacrifices of Jesus for Humanity, but celebrating eating His body and drinking His blood borders on\u00a0legitimizing\u00a0cannibalism.<\/p>\n<p>On statues of The Saints: I&#8217;m sure in real life The Saints\u00a0weren&#8217;t concerned with their fashion sense and more about their Beliefs and helping the less fortunate but most statues I&#8217;ve seen look like they were dressed by 17th\u00a0century English Poof-Dahs.<\/p>\n<p>On the Church&#8217;s\u00a0possessions: if your intentions are to help others that are less fortunate than you, by sharing your money and possessions why would you believe that your donation would be distributed to the needy, with minimal &#8220;administrative cost deductions&#8221; by an\u00a0organization that seems to hoard more gold than Fort Knox?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Nuns: you can kiss a nun, you just can&#8217;t get into &#8220;The Habit&#8221; On Brothers: how can you trust a man who lives with other men, can&#8217;t have a relationship with a woman, wears a housecoat all the time, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/?p=55\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}