It’s All Maya!

A nine year-old girl in Recife, Brazil was repeatedly raped by her step-father from the age of six and became impregnated with twins. The girl’s mother found out that her daughter was four months pregnant when the child complained of stomach pains.  The mother sought an abortion for her daughter which is illegal in Brazil - except for cases of rape or danger to the mother’s health.  Doctors performed the abortion and rightly so, not only because the 9 year old was raped, but the young girl’s body would have made it extremely dangerous for her to give birth to twins.

So where’s the problem?  The step-father admitted to raping the girl since she was six, and is suspected of having done the same to the girl’s handicapped sister who is now 14.  I say castrate him, throw him in prison and then throw away the key!!!  The reason why Brazil is in an uproar over this case (and rightly so) is because the Catholic Church has now excommunicated the little girl’s mother and the doctors who performed the abortion, but not the step-father!  Why?!  According to the Archbishop, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, who announced that the Vatican was excommunicating the family - abortion is a more serious crime!!!

What is wrong with these people?!!!  If you happen to be Roman Catholic, get off my case because I was raised a Catholic, and from the time I was six years old, I remember questioning the idealogy of all these “man made laws” that have nothing to do with finding God.  As I was growing up, if you ate meat on Fridays that was a mortal sin!  If you didn’t go to church on Sundays, that was a mortal sin!  I remember thinking, what if an old lady who was a good person all her life and she didn’t feel like going to mass one Sunday and then she got run over by a car on Monday and died….why would she then be condemned to Hell for eternity?  I couldn’t grasp the reasoning behind it.

Needless to say, I am no longer Catholic, but a Christian with my own philosophical beliefs which includes reincarnation.  Who wants to belong to a church that hides their own pedophile priests and turns a blind eye allowing them to continue sexually abusing children for years!  Why aren’t they excommunicated???  Could it be that the Roman Catholic Church doesn’t consider this a sin???  This doesn’t sound like Christ’s teachings to me!!!

Brazilian President, Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, has also weighed in on this issue and said,  “As a Christian and a Catholic, I deeply regret that a bishop of the Catholic Church has such a conservative attitude.  The doctors did what had to be done: save the life of a girl of nine years old. In this case, the medical profession was more right than the Church.”  (I applaud the Brazilian President!)

The little girl was not excommunicated because of her age, however, the Archbishop in defending the Vatican’s position against her family and the doctors said, “….transgressors are no longer welcome in the Roman Catholic Church.”

Maya Muses:  Sounds good to me!  (Now, where’s a wall so I can go bang my head!!!)

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