Why is it, when you read a news paper, anyone who makes the paper for something weird or dissenting who "claims catholic" is described as devout?
Like the person who died in a voodoo ritual in Pa. this person was described as devout because of an Our Lady tattoo on the foot. Devout, "...but with an interest in Voodoo.".
You can not be a devout Catholic--or any type of Christian--and be willing to worship other gods, or to allow your body to be possessed by spirits ( a central practice of voodoo).
Sheesh--this person is described as devout, while the devout I know are described as "fundamentalist", "hard line", "extremist" etc.
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IMO this is done with the aim of marginalizing/discrediting genuinely faithful followers of Rome. By portraying nut jobs like this one as a mainstream Catholic the entire Church is slammed.
Not being a conspiracy theorist by nature leads me to think it's the natural result of a mindset that believes any religious person who goes against the cultural grain is a space case. No deliberate attempt to negatively portray Catholics is needed, start with the premise true adherents are nuts and the natural tendency to seek out stories such as this one follows.
As for the ones described as "fundamentalist", "hard line", "extremist" etc., they would be the ones who effectively challenge our self-styled cultural "elite". So the truly devout would come under a more conscious and deliberate smear campaign.
Just my opinion and probably not worth two cents. Thanks for listening.
What Subvet said, and it's no conspiracy, it's blatant.
You forgot to add that those of us that are devout are also "narrow minded" and "judgemental" and we think that we are "holier then thou"
On Wikipedia the late Danny Thomas is described as a devout Catholic and then it tells about him also being a prominent Mason. *sigh*
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