14 Apr 10 Lots of opinions, lots of victims; but here’s a wider perspective

I haven’t really said anything yet, publically or privately, in regards to the sexual abuse scandal that’s rocking the Catholic church. I’ve read a lot about it, though, and found this excellent article today from Mark Morford. I think a lot of the solutions to the sexual abuse scandal really relate to a narrower view of action–”Arrest the pope!”, or “Let priests marry!” or “Bishops now report abuse to police!”–but I think a broader perspective is worth considering. Why not consider that, for all its trappings and riches and daily habits they’ve ingrained in us, we just abandon the church and these supposedly ‘holy’ institutions?

How grand to imagine — even for a moment, even if you already sense it’s damn near impossible, even if you think the Church still does some good in the world, somewhere — how utterly uplifting to think that finally, after all these centuries of lies and oppression, intolerance and cover-up, that one of the most dangerous, insular religious monoliths in the world could come tumbling down in a smoldering heap, with something fluid, feminine and utterly transformational to spring up in its place.

You want a true second coming? A big, happy slap of the Rapture? There you go.

20 Dec 09 An atheist’s snow angel.

I told my roomies about this a few weeks ago, and finally, with the fresh snowfall, had a chance to take a picture of this “atheist snow angel”. Get it…?