Priorities
Boy was I relieved the other day to read the Pope isn’t going to allow divorced Catholics to receive communion. Since divorce is clearly an abomination in the eyes of the Lord, and Catholics who profane marriage this way will surely burn for eternity, that was the only decision the Pontiff could make. On the other hand, his Holiness knows God has a very different view of priests who molest children: when the heathen law enforcement agencies threaten these holy men with jail, the Church empties its coffers to provide the best legal help available. Doesn’t it say, right there in the Bible, that priests who molest children deserve the protection, the indulgence of the Church? All good Catholics know this, and accept the fact that the money they give to the Church will be spent doing God’s work. Certain godless heathen may question the priorities of the Holy See in defending molesters and trashing divorcees, but that’s only because they are weak in the faith.
Similarly, there are those who question the judgment of Our President in sending more and more American soldiers to kill and be killed by those heathen Moslems who deny the Christian faith and charge too much for their oil. If we haven’t wiped Iraq off the face of the earth and put its oil in the hands of righteous Christian corporations, it’s because faithless liberals have not believed that Mr. Bush is doing God’s work. They don’t understand that by sending men to fight and die, and keeping them in the war zone for tour after tour, then giving the wounded and maimed inferior treatment and cutting back on their benefits, The President is showing true patriotism. Anyone who doubts it is a hell-bound traitor!
Then again, there are those nattering nabobs of negativism who question HSU president Rollin Richmond spending $2.3 million per year on athletics at Humboldt, but nothing on books for the library. Last year he spent $250,000 on decorative gates for the campus while increasing student fees and keeping employees’ wages low. Now the students will fund the athletic program, whether they wsant to or not. Don't those students understand the reason the university is there is: to win the NCAA finals? What else is a university for?
A certain local billionaire has given us a new theatre and (soon) a new Home Depot on the one hand, but visits legal punishment on those who think they know better how to plan development in Humboldt County. If he is wealthier than you and I, surely it is because he is better than us in the eyes of the Lord.
How grateful we as taxpayers, as citizens, as sheep in the fold should be that we have such quality leadership! If we had something like democracy, think of the chaos and godlessness that would ensue! Who are we to question our betters? God put them over us for a reason, and any waste products that trickle down should be seen as manna from Heaven.