I just caught a Catholic priest denouncing a man he does not know as a racist:
Anyone baptized a Catholic is a Catholic: you can’t become uncatholic. That does not mean every Catholic acts in accord with that baptism.
Neither you nor Biden are examples of acting in accord with baptism. You are racist; he is pro-abortion.
Your racism is a counter-witness… https://t.co/HOunDWpv6V
— Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC (@FrMatthewLC) December 7, 2024
Why did the priest do so? Because his target chooses to mock the term “African-American.” And so there’s no imaginable confusion, I mock it too.
I am sick to death of the racism-shouters – and when a Catholic priest does it, he does harm to the Church. He’s employing the mantle of Holy Orders to give his personal opinion the status of a commandment. It’s been done before, and it’s always destructive to the Church, and to the Christian faith.
Virtually no one will tell you, in a clear, well-defined fashion, what he means by “racism.” It’s a lot of hot air designed to mask the shouter’s inner censoriousness, and it is contemptible. If you can’t define the term intensively – that is, with a genus and a differentia, which all good definitions must possess – then you deserve to be despised for ranting about it… Catholic priest or not!
Forgive me, Gentle Reader; I had to get that out before it could fester. Too many priests have tried to elevate their preferences to Holy Writ, and it is disgraceful. I will denounce it wherever I see it, and may the Devil take the hindmost!
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We agree and differ. I too am tired of “you’re rayciss!” being the default setting of those opposed to any racial awareness at all. The word has simply lost its power. I’m also not surprised that a member of the Catholic clergy is so quick to deploy it, considering the huge role that Catholic Charities and the Church itself have played in enabling and abetting the flow of brown skin illegals into our country.
However, I like the term “African-American.” I like it a lot. Better to remind us of the utter and complete disasters of societies that exist in their homelands, and to explain the utter and complete disasters of the “communities” that they create in our midst.
I usually shut down the “African-American” arguments with the clear and verifiable facts that Charlize Theron and Elon Musk are both African-American, while Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Reid are neither.
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That enrages them!
One would think a priest would be at least passingly familiar with His exchange with the Syrophoenician. Pretty much by definition, since He didn’t sin, so it’s obviously not a sin to speak metaphorically about people as dogs, even though that was a horrible insult in that culture.
Just stop it already with the WWJD nonsense, wokesters. You obviously have no idea. Master WDJD first.
My friend Amir was born in Cairo. He used to drive his black co-workers insane when he’d say he’s African-American.
I’ve actually known people born in Africa – they have the right, should they desire to use it, of calling themselves African-American.
I prefer the term American of —– ancestry.
I am an American of mostly Celtic ancestry. But I seldom do that, other than to answer the question “What is your family’s heritage?”
Most of my ancestors were in what later became America by the 17th to early 18th century. As that is quite some time ago, my ancestral heritage is only mildly interesting. I consider myself thoroughly American, in speech, thought, and culture.