This is a perfect example of why I think organized religion is a crock.
In a day when Catholic priests are molesting young boys, I find it completely ironic that they would deny an 8-year-old girl the right to her first Holy Communion because she has an illness that prevents her from digesting wheat. Would they prefer that this child get sick and die?
Who's the better Catholic here? The former Bishop Thomas O'Brien, who runs a man down in the street and leaves him to die, or a child who wants to practice the faith but is denied that right because she can't eat gluten?
If the answer is O'Brien, why would anyone want to participate in such a farce?
Talk about a screwed up religion...
Posted by geekchik at August 20, 2004 08:59 AM