Aphorism: On the Catholic Church’s Support of Child Rape

By Madison S. Hughes (07.24.2011)

“If a Priest gets married he is excommunicated from the Catholic Church; however, if that same Priest rapes a child he will not be excommunicated, but instead transferred to a different Diocese.”

If one is a member of the Ku Klux Klan one is considered a racist, but if one is a member of the Catholic Church one is considered—not by me mind you—an “upstanding” citizen of the community.

It seems to me that if one remains a member of the Catholic Church one is, at best, demonstrating complicity, and, at worst, an active accomplice to the child raping Priest.

Essay: “A Critical Analysis of Sigmund Freud’s “Totem and Taboo” (1913); “The Future of an Illusion” (1927)”

By Madison S. Hughes (09.09.2009)

Between 1912 and 1913 Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) wrote four essays, later compiled in the book (Totem and Taboo (TT), W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1950) in an attempt to apply psychoanalysis—which he founded—to discover the origins of civilized life. Initially it was not well received from the anthropological community, but in later years it came to be more accepted.   

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