Why I am Writing This Blog

 Every so often I have to stop and ask myself why I am still writing this blog, which although encouraged by many is deplorable to others.    The first answer is to show my faith in Jesus Christ and his Church, I believe he taught a way of life that would make the world a happier place if followed.   I believe that those who teach "God made you the way you are" have alienated thousands of young people from his teaching, leading them to adultery and sexual pleasure without commitment, which means using the body of another purely for selfish pleasure.   This  has led to single parent poverty, and fatherless children, none of which Christ wanted in HIs kingdom.   And let me be clear on this, there are very few working class parents who choose to be single parents., their poverty is an injustice we will answer for at the day of judgment.   Someone lower in mentality than the animals just got woman pregnant then walked. off.  Politicias tell you it is all the fault of the Government.   But the growing deprivation of many children in these families is the lack of a father, and his absence is a lonely life for a woman, who wants her children to have all the things the children of a couple have.  And ow well many of them cope.

I do not need to go on with this theme.    If you have not noticed it, then it is because you do not wish to see it.     In order to help state education in Catholic Schools the Bishops of England and Wales decided that Jesus did not mean after all that adultery was a sin,  it was only a sin when married people were involved.    Teachers after all could not teach adultery, but if the bishops ignored Jesus, that would be helpful.     So Catholic schools got on with the task of creating more single parents and unhappy children, for it was after all the 'sensible thing' to do.    And they did not have to worry about 'immature parents' like myself, just ignore these fundamentalists.

But of course we give the child an all round education, which makes them scientists and  physicists, and other professionals.   The fact that the vast majority of them have left the Church does to really matter, for despite what Jesus said we are all going to Heaven.  And we all must be cofident we are doing our best.   Or am I taking Jesus too seriously?       

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