Religious Trauma Healing

It was pity to see a bar row spoil a couple's little tête-à-tête in Rome yesterday (the couple presumably belonged to one of these modern Catholic social movements, Comunione e Liberazione). A thirty-something man unleashed a succession of uppercut punches after arguing with a younger man over a “boorish” (coatto!) and offensive behavior against a woman. The poor little couple left quickly. It was a mix of her being embarrassed because of what her boyfriend had been saying about the necessity for people to present themselves perfect before God (I'm pretty sure it came from one of the epistles of the New Testament) and her trauma for having come face to face with the sheer brutality of life.

The meaningless drivel of Catholicism

The Catholic church  is nothing less than an acolyte of the bipolar machine of power (politics and economy), a gang of  fiddlers peddling meaningless and contradictory slogans masquerading as Christianity.

Unfazed by Hell. On hypocrisy

My best eavesdropping moment was on a train in Rome when I heard a relaxed and modest sounding middle aged Italian priest on his mobile telling the person on the other end that no action seemed to be necessary then, but that by the end of the following week it might prove necessary (per adesso lascia così, ma per la fine della settimana prossima … ). He thought he was defying his power of coercion but he was playing into his hands by dividing (now /then) and demonizing. And this is what is called hypocrisy.