A fresh start....

After rereading my earlier posts, I've decided it would be wise if I started over with this blog.  My interests have changed somewhat over the last two years (uh, meaning my early posts were stilted and flat); so, I thought I'd delete all the crap and start again fresh.  Fresh as a daisy (appropriate since it's officially Spring).  So....

I am, currently, on The Little Crusade.  The Little Crusade is simple:  Try to get folks to think critically about people who wear robes and not immediately place their trust in anyone.  But, specifically, I mean priests and nuns in the Catholic Church.  

I notice today that the RC Church is finally taking the complaints of its assaulted and raped charges and parishioners seriously and is talking about righting these wrongs.  Too little, too late, I feel, because the Roman Catholic Church, like me, needs to get rid of all the crap (including its current pope) and start again.  Only if it rids itself of those who committed and abetted these horrible crimes does the RC Church have any chance of winning back the love of its flock.  That's what I did.  Got rid of the chaff.   And I only committed the crime of being a bit boring.

I recognize I am a hyper-rationalist.  In my perfect world, there would be no RC Church (or any other church for that matter).  However, science tells us that millions of folks cannot help but believe in something.  All I ask is this:  Belief in a god should not automatically confer instant belief or trust in any human representative of said deity.   No person who calls herself or himself holy should automatically deserve our respect.  They, like all of us, should earn our respect, our faith, and our trust.

So, maybe, if the RC Church dissolved the institution in its current form and its preachers walked out humbly amongst the people, clean and fresh as the flowers outside my window this beautiful Spring day, maybe I could halt my crusade.  But as long as there are large political institutions hiding behind the sheep's clothes of religion, demanding absolute faith, obedience, and respect from their followers, My Little Crusade is on.