Bigotry is rooted in an unconscious disgust one was forced to feel about one's self before the age when a we as children could critically reason. This amorphous feeling gets attached to things by rationalizations and unexamined associations later in life. In this case Hal has identified an event in the world that caused him to feel that disgust and spontaneously and without thought, as a means of attack, simply spouted out that his feeling of the enormity of his self hate must account for why everybody must also feel it about Christians. This is how truthiness works, the need, not only to be right, but to enjoy the ego satisfaction that you are, to unconsciously imagine and believe that your personal disgust for yourself is universal. And since self hate IS a universal, there will always be many many other bigots who will chime in with the same bigotry by a similar process of projection.
But beyond disgust, is there any other origin of a sounder form of truth? There is none that causes an irrational disgusted reaction. However, since even monkeys know when things are unjust, there may be some form in genetic morality that goes along genetically with being a primate and which in man may express itself as the certain feeling we have inalienable rights and even that they are so objectively internally sensed as factual, they may as well have come from the Creator, which, as genetic manifestations, they, in some fashion or another, obviously did.
Thus it seems to me that to any rational and say, non-conforming-to-doctrine Catholic the idea that a 9 year old rape victim and the rapist undergo what we read here would seem to be a travesty of justice. But to any such mind that can truly reason without an unconscious need to feel disgusted and project outward one's inner hate, that is to say, to a mind that is truly free of hate, there can be no blame. The Catholic Church set themselves up as the representatives of Absolute Truth and uttered it. They allowed perfection to become the enemy of the good. They chose to equate the sanctity of life with the sperm and the egg as the only important and overriding truth. Once they fixated on that colossal stupidity, all the rest of what we see has followed, absurd absolute pronouncements and a following who to a massive degree, no pun intended, ignore the church leaders. They turned religion into a clown act and cost untold numbers their Christian faith.
This is simply another example of the conservative brain defect in action. Nobody is to blame, nobody is disgusting, the blind are blind and cannot see.
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