Monday, February 13, 2023

Paid Leave For Menstrual Pain And The Immediate Impulse To Punish By Residents of The United States Of Barbaria


Dear F

Thanks for your email. 

Make no mistake. We live in The United States Of Barbaria, and much of our barbarism arises from America's widespread belief in a vengeful God.

Inevitably, we re-make ourselves in the image of our gods, and since America's god has chosen to create a universe in which Hell is a place of eternal torment -- without possibility of reform -- we re-make ourselves in the image of a sadistic God who often holds us hostage by a mechanism very much like Stockholm Syndrome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

That said, I believe, alongside John, that "God is love." And so, I believe all Christian denominations have a serious moral responsibility to re-formulate their teachings on Hell. 

Don't hold your breath.

In this regard, I applaud Unitarian Universalism, and G.K. Chesterton.

"G.K. Chesterton: On Charity, Hope And Universal Salvation"


When I was a boy at St. Thomas the Apostle school in Irondequoit, New York, "sister"(Margarita - second grade?) told us - and this is  nearly verbatim - "There is no reason why Catholics need to believe that anyone's soul is in Hell. Indeed, we should pray that Adolf Hitler is in heaven."

A Short History Of Hell

Religion, Eternal Punishment, And Hell-Gehenna (With A Special Guest Appearance By Bertrand Russell)

Is Hitler In Hell? - An Attempt To Rescue "Christian" "Conservative" Friends From Their Delusional Support For Donald Trump And The Big Lie


Why "Conservative" "Christians" Are All Going To Hell (If There Is A Hell...Which I Don't Believe)
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/why-conservative-christians-are-all.html

The Innate Hostility Of Absolutists: Relativists Are "Okay" With Absolutists; Absolutists Prefer That Relativists "Go To Hell" - Which Is Where They Belong!

The Thinking Housewife, A Traditionalist Catholic: "We Can Be Pretty Sure That Many Good People Are Roasting In Hell"


I correspond with "The Thinking Housewife," a smart and sometimes insightful person.
But when she's got her head ensconced in The Dark Place, she is as benighted as a black hole. Laura, her given name, is an obsequious absolutist, who will undergo any cerebral contortion to make Catholicism's "Official Story" appear not only believable, but "God's Truth."
Read about The Cadaver Synod, and then ask yourself if Rome's claims to inerrancy make any sense.

And if you don't read Spanish, you can get the same "scoop" in Wikipedia's article on The Cadaver Synod: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod 

I find the following insights are utterly fascinating, and I am confident you will too.
These insights into "Salus Populi Suprema Lex" have nothing to do with the "hell" articles posted above, except insofar as my key word search led to the word "helluva" which is in the title of this long-overlooked post.

"Salus Populi Suprema Lex": A Revealing Investigation Of How A Little Historical Understanding Prevents A Helluva Lot Of Lunacy

Harking back to the early Roman church, consider this teaching of Saint Gregory Nyssa, and others: 

Apocatastasis
The Catholic Encyclopedia

Apokatastasis - briefly defined by Merriam Webster



I forget the number of Americans -- mostly common folk -- who owned (or borrowed) a copy of Paine's "Common Sense," an indispensable underpinning of the consciousness-raising that led to the American revolution. As I recall,the number was somewhere between 30 and 50%! 





The rest of Russell's quote: "Cruel men believe in a cruel God, and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly God, and they would be kindly in any case. Men tend to have the beliefs that suit their passions."       Bertrand Russell, London Calling (1947)




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On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 10:13 AM FV wrote:

(Some companies are) approving 3 day paid leave for women who have painful periods due to endometriosis or fibroids.
Japan has done this for many years.

How far would it get here?  

It's a missed opportunity for impregnation. Can't award that is what I hear.


 

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