Go ahead and hate the Catholic Church

Honestly, it does not bother me at all. I'm posting this just to save some time and energy for those who go further and further in their hatred of the Church, trying to get some additional pain or reaction from me, or others. No lie, I could not care less if a billion people hated the Catholic Church as badly as the worst of them (check comments section of any article about religion to see what I mean.) God's truth: I could not care less if one billion people or more hated the Catholic Church just as much as the most despising individuals we see today. Why is that?

You can hate the Catholic Church to pieces, but it doesn't change the fact that there is a God, one to whom everyone, both people who are guilty of abuse in the Church AND haters in general, must be accountable to.

People keep confusing the institution with the reality of God. You know what that is? Darwin at work.

To hate a religious institution because of the abuse of some or even "many" is in opposition to one's own survival traits (terminology I've used before) and thus is "Darwin at work" for two reasons:

1. By hating the Catholic Church you diminish your own faith in God in general, regardless of your denomination and woe especially to you if you are atheist, as it's blinders on top of blinders.

2. By hating priest sex abusers you channel all your presumed "righteous indignation" toward the Church and away from, oh, I don't know, maybe parents who rape their own babies' behinds and mouths, give them drugs, sell (or trade them) for sex, or who have incest with their older children, or pose infants to teenagers for porn. I'm not a statistician but I could make a smart bet that there's much more of that, which ruins generations and destroys intimacy (and murders) many more individuals than all the abuse in the Church, and that's assuming a lot.

By doing any of the above you are diminishing your own survival traits and just fulfilling Darwin, like the clown who says "watch this" while handing a beer to his friend.

So pour on the hate: I am serious. Let's see how much we have to deal with and then the peanut gallery of good natured but uninvolved people on the sidelines will eventually say, just as I explained above, "Hmm. As outrageous as the abuse was, and how grievous, is the Catholic Church really the source of all perversion in the world?" *Glances at the newspaper and sees another "boyfriend" stuck his **** into his girlfriend's infant before beating it to death.*

Sooner or later if people are going to survive at all, they are going to have to get proportional and sane again. If on the way to that road (which may result in the Second Coming, by the way, where there are more disappointed people than joyful ones) you have to reach spittle flying total hatred for the Catholic Church, go ahead, it does not raise my blood pressure, nor make me boo hoo hoo into my hanky. I just think, with a small amount of chortling, how surprised YOU all will be when you discover that you can hate abusing doctors, but that does not mean that medicine is invalid. Get ready for God to pin that medal on your chest (or Satan to pin it on your backside).

And, just for a little theology, let's come up with an awful scenario. Let's suppose that millions of people rose up in hatred against the Church and individual Catholics, oppressing, attacking and even murdering them. Theologically that's an awesome thing, because even those lukewarm cafeteria Catholics would become martyrs, and we all know (if we actually read the Bible) how all martyrs are glorified by God for eternity.

Have a nice day!

"Fat" genes, some scientific perspectives

Just a quick comment on this. Modern people have somehow slipped into the erroneous belief that body fat is "dangerous" and "unhealthy." Excess weight may be unhealthy, but fat itself is not unhealthy and if it were not for body fat there would be no humans alive today.

Researchers have found two genes that influence the amount of fat an individual will retain, even if the individual diets strenuously. The second gene is even being called a "rogue gene," like it popped up just to cause trouble. Well, evolution and biology don't work that way. If there was no evolutionary or survival advantage to having a "rogue" gene, it would die out.

Fat exists to tide a human body over a time of diminished food supply. It's what keeps people from dropping dead after a few days without food. If one were able to go back and look at genetics of people who survived great famines, for example, I would not be surprised if a time traveling geneticist would discover that survivors had more, not less, of those "rogue fat genes."

There is a great danger in manipulating the body's survival devices, especially for vanity reasons, which, let's be honest, lies behind much of the "leaner is healthier" hand wringers. I'm not for grave obesity but that is a life style and food supply problem, not "rogue genes." The fattest people who retain fat would probably be the favored ones to survive a famine and pass on those "rogue genes" to their LUCKY children!

I urge both trend setters and researchers to stop being so short sighted regarding how life actually works and continues. Meddling with a gene that works to help humans survive during a famine is a really, really, really stupid idea. Research and understand it, but don't do what humans seem to be constantly doing, which is to "overcome" some "bad" part of the human body, thus medicating people (and by pissing it out, the whole environment) with drugs that work against survivability and true "natural health" rather than for it.

\facepalm/