Claims of the Catholic Church Options

[JlIaTMK]

This was an actual letter sent out by the St. Mary's Church:

If Your Child is a Gothic, Reform Through the Lord!

Listed below are some warning signs to indicate if your
child may have gone astray from the Lord.

Gothic (or goth) is a very obscure and often dangerous
culture that young teenagers are prone to participating in. The gothic culture leads young, susceptible minds into an imagined world of evil,darkness, and violence. Please seek immediate attention through counselling, prayer,
and parental guidance to rid your child of Satan's temptations if five or more of the following are applicable to your child:

-Frequently wears black clothing.

-Wears band and/or rock t-shirts.

-Wears excessive black eye makeup, lipstick or nailpolish.

-Wears any odd, silver jewelry or symbols. Some of these include:
reversed crosses, pentagrams, pentacles, ankhs or various
other
Satanic
worshipping symbols.

-Shows an interest in piercings or tattoos.

-Listens to gothic or any other anti-social genres of
music. (Marilyn Manson claims to be the anti-Christ, and publicly speaks
against the Lord. Please discard any such albums IMMEDIATELY.)

-Associates with other people that dress, act or speak
eccentrically.

-Shows a declining interest in wholesome activities, such
as: the Bible, prayer, church or sports.

-Shows an increasing interest in death, vampires, magic,
the occult, witchcraft or anything else that involves Satan.

-Takes drugs.

-Drinks alcohol.

-Is suicidal and/or depressed.

-Cuts, burns or partakes in any other method of self-mutilation. (This is a Satanic ritual that uses pain to detract from the light of God and
His love. Please seek immediate attention for this at your local mental health center.)

-Complains of boredom.

-Sleeps too excessively or too little.

-Is excessively awake during the night.

-Dislikes sunlight or any other form of light. (This pertains to
vampires promoting the idea that His light is of no use.)

-Demands an unusual amount of privacy.

-Spends large amounts of time alone.

-Requests time alone and quietness. (This is so that your chid may speak to evil sprits through meditation.)

-Insists on spending time with friends while unaccompanied by an adult.

-Disregards authority figures; teachers, priests, nuns and
elders are but a few examples of this.

-Misbehaves at school.

-Misbehaves at home.

-Eats excessively or too little.

-Eats goth-related foods. Count Dracula cereal is an example of this.

-Drinks blood or expresses an interest in drinking blood.
(Vampires believe this is how to attain Satan. This act is very dangerous and should be stopped immediately.)

-Watches cable television or any other corrupted media
sources. (Ask your local church for proper programs that your child may watch.)

-Plays videos games that contains violence or role-playing nature.

-Uses the internet excessively and frequently makes time for the computer.

-Makes Satanic symbols and/or violently shakes head to music.

-Dances to music in a provocative or sexual manner.

-Expresses an interest in sex.

-Masturbates

-Is homosexual and/or bisexual.

-Pursues dangerous cult religions. Such include: Satanism, Scientology, Philosophy, Paganism, Wicca, Hinduism and Buddhism.

-Wears pins, stickers or anything else that contains these various phrases: "I'm so gothic, I'm dead", "woe is me", "I'm a goth".

-Claims to be a goth.

If five or more of these apply to your child, please intervene immediately. The gothic culture is dangerous and Satan thrives within it. If any of these problems persist, enlist your child into your local mental health center.

~St. Mary's Catholic Church

OKAY, FIRST OF ALL, I DONT THINK JESUS WOULD WANT PEOPLE TO HATE AGAINST OTHER PEOPLE BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY DO AND APPEARANCES and also jesus was openminded for his day and today, the openmindedness of that time is considered normal.... so i think jesus would be openminded to most of these things on the list eh, and most gothic people think jesus is horrid and evil its just... the people that follow this current religion of christianity make him to look so evil and unopenminded. i seriously would think he would hate what their doing to his religion. he actually FOUGHT for the right to believe whatever you want against the jews, not against it :)

[ComradeRed]

[QUOTE]-Frequently wears black clothing.[/QUOTE]

Check.

[QUOTE]-Wears band and/or rock t-shirts. [/QUOTE]

Nope.

[quote]-Wears excessive black eye makeup, lipstick or nailpolish.[/quote]

No makeup for me.

[quote]-Wears any odd, silver jewelry or symbols. Some of these include:
reversed crosses, pentagrams, pentacles, ankhs or various other Satanic worshipping symbols.[/quote]

I have a Knight's Cross, that'll have to do.

[quote]-Shows an interest in piercings or tattoos.[/quote]

Ew...

[quote]-Listens to gothic or any other anti-social genres of music. (Marilyn Manson claims to be the anti-Christ, and publicly speaks against the Lord. Please discard any such albums IMMEDIATELY.)[/quote]

I listen to communist music. That's pretty anti-social.

[quote]-Associates with other people that dress, act or speak eccentrically.[/quote]

Definitely.

[quote]-Shows a declining interest in wholesome activities, such as: the Bible, prayer, church or sports.[/quote]

Nah, I'm still chock-full of wholesome Midwestern values.

[quote]-Shows an increasing interest in death, vampires, magic, the occult, witchcraft or anything else that involves Satan.[/quote]

You've gotta admit, Satan's a fascinating guy.

[quote]-Takes drugs.[/quote]

Tylenol...

[quote]-Drinks alcohol.[/quote]

Yeah, I do that during communion.

[quote]-Is suicidal and/or depressed.[/quote]

I'm not that bad... I perfer to think of it as being recessed.

[quote]-Cuts, burns or partakes in any other method of self-mutilation. (This is a Satanic ritual that uses pain to detract from the light of God and
His love. Please seek immediate attention for this at your local mental health center.)[/quote]

Ew...

[quote]-Complains of boredom.[/quote]

Well sometimes, life is boring...

[quote]-Sleeps too excessively or too little.[/quote]

That's what we in the real world like to call "Jet lag" sometimes.

[quote]-Is excessively awake during the night.[/quote]

When I do sleep, I sleep well.

[quote]-Dislikes sunlight or any other form of light. (This pertains to vampires promoting the idea that His light is of no use.)[/quote]

Except when His light causes skin cancer, then it might be a good idea to stay indoors.

[quote]-Demands an unusual amount of privacy.[/quote]

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated...

[quote]-Spends large amounts of time alone.[/quote]

Because I have no friends.

[quote]-Requests time alone and quietness. (This is so that your chid may speak to evil sprits through meditation.)[/quote]

Or so I can speak to myself through meditation. Or prayer.

[quote]-Insists on spending time with friends while unaccompanied by an adult.[/quote]

AKA going to college.

[quote]-Disregards authority figures; teachers, priests, nuns and elders are but a few examples of this.[/quote]

Elders? Mormon Elders?

[quote]-Misbehaves at school.[/quote]

Nah, there isn't that much opportunity for it...

[quote]-Misbehaves at home.[/quote]

Me? No...

[quote]-Eats excessively or too little.[/quote]

I'm pretty sure that's called an eating disorder.

[quote]-Eats goth-related foods. Count Dracula cereal is an example of this.[/quote]

And what else? Dark bread? I love dark bread.

[quote]-Drinks blood or expresses an interest in drinking blood. (Vampires believe this is how to attain Satan. This act is very dangerous and should be stopped immediately.) [/quote]

Or that's called your "culture" if you are from some parts of East Asia.

[quote]-Watches cable television or any other corrupted media sources. (Ask your local church for proper programs that your child may watch.)[/quote]

Oh no!

[quote]-Plays videos games that contains violence or role-playing nature.[/quote]

As opposed to video games that... don't?

[quote]-Uses the internet excessively and frequently makes time for the computer.[/quote]

Add in all the computer people and businessmen in the world...

[quote]-Makes Satanic symbols and/or violently shakes head to music.[/quote]

Fun stuff.

[quote]-Dances to music in a provocative or sexual manner.[/quote]

Very fun stuff.

[quote]-Expresses an interest in sex. [/quote]

Who doesn't?

[quote]-Is homosexual and/or bisexual.[/quote]

Haha, gay bashing is fun!

[quote]-Pursues dangerous cult religions. Such include: Satanism, Scientology, Philosophy, Paganism, Wicca, Hinduism and Buddhism.[/quote]

Better throw away that Plato book I have for school...

[quote]-Wears pins, stickers or anything else that contains these various phrases: "I'm so gothic, I'm dead", "woe is me", "I'm a goth".[/quote]

Or "we will bury you!"

[quote]-Claims to be a goth.[/quote]

If you're from certain parts of Germany and Poland, that would be an accurate claim.

[quote]If five or more of these apply to your child, please intervene immediately. The gothic culture is dangerous and Satan thrives within it. If any of these problems persist, enlist your child into your local mental health center.[/quote]

I have MANY more of those five apply to me, and I'm not gothic at all. I'm sure almost all kids--even really religious ones, have several of those apply.