Anti-Christian Attacks Continue: More Mindless Hate Mongering in the Media

By Michael Terheyden
3/14/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

Larry Doyle's diatribe was only the tip of the iceberg of anti-Christian hatemongering

According to Larry Doyle of The Huffington Post, the Catholic Church conducts barbaric rituals; its priests wear black robes and cast spells; its devotees eat Jesus meat in a cannibalistic reverie and take orders from the Pope, who is a "former" Nazi, chats with God and will be the real president if Santorum wins. Oh, and Doyle believes that Christians are vicious, ignorant and intolerant.

Writer Larry Doyle: anti-Catholic. Photo taken from the Media Report.com

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KNOXVILLE, TN (Catholic Online) - I want to thank Larry Doyle, a writer for The Huffington Post and a former writer and producer of "The Simpsons," for the articles he wrote attacking the Catholic Church. The first article, "The Jesus-Eating Cult of Rick Santorum," was published on February 24, 2012, the second article, "Dear Catholics: I Am Heartily Sorry, etc.," was published four days later.

The reason I am grateful is because Doyle confirmed some of the points I mentioned in my recent article, "In the Face of Secularism, It is Time for a New Defense of Christianity." For instance, I noted how secularists, or liberals if you prefer, like to talk about civility and moderation, but that they are often prone to lying, manipulation, intolerance, and self-righteous fanaticism. Doyle's articles provide us with timely examples of these very qualities.

Doyle's first article was largely in response to Rick Santorum's comment about President Obama's faith being a "phony ideology." President Obama spent years in Jeremiah Wright's church, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where he fed upon a steady diet of "black liberation theology." This so-called theology perverts religion. It combines Christianity, Marxism and racism into a nonsensical social and political ideology.

In this respect, Santorum's reference to a phony ideology appears reasonable, but it apparently offended Doyle's delicate sensibilities, causing him to lash out at all Catholics in self-righteous indignation. He wrote that he has an obligation to expose Catholicism as a "phony theology," because it "threatens to supplant Christianity as our official national religion" and because of all the "vicious religious ignorance and intolerance" he sees "coming from too many so-called Christians, especially Santorum." More choice examples of Doyle's mindless rant are as follows:

At a time when Christians are being tortured and murdered throughout the Muslim world, Doyle accuses the Catholic Church of having carried on "bloody jihads." He also says that the Church is currently "the tactical arm of the North American Man-Boy Love Association," a pedophile organization. You may be familiar with their acronym, NAMBLA. Then he insults Irish Catholics.

Following these ridiculous comments, he implies that Catholics are not Christians and that Catholics "participate in a barbaric ritual dating back two millennia, a 'mass' in which a black-robed cleric casts a spell over some bread and wine, transfiguring it into the actual living flesh and blood of their Christ. Followers then line up to eat the Jesus meat and drink his holy blood in a cannibalistic reverie not often seen outside Cinemax."

He goes on to say, "Roman Catholics like Santorum take their orders from 'the Pope,' a high priest who, they believe, chats with God. Santorum has made no secret of his plans to implement his leader's dicta on allowed uses of vaginas and anuses. . . ." Doyle also says if Santorum wins the presidential election, then "our real president will be Benedict XVI (a 'former' Nazi, by the way)." He concludes his filthy rant as follows: "Need I remind you that only once in our great history has a Roman Catholic been elected president, and how tragically it ended?"

In response to the outrage he provoked, he wrote a follow-up article. In this second article, he tells us that it was all just a joke, a satire. Then he proceeds to blame Christians and Santorum for his attack on the Catholic Church. After that, he blames his editors for putting his first article in the comedy section, which he believes was a mistake. And to make sure that Catholics do not misunderstand him, he writes, "It's traditional at this point for me to half-apologize, to say that I'm sorry if anybody was offended, but I really don't mind if anybody was offended."

Conservatives and concerned Christian leaders called Doyle's articles bigoted and rightly accused The Huffington Post of employing a double standard. In a letter to The Huffington Post, Brent Bozell III, president of the Media Research Center wrote, "If such an article was written concerning the Islamic or Jewish faith, the public outcry would be overwhelming, and rightly so. But anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable form of bigotry, and The Huffington Post is taking advantage of that bigotry for all it's worth." He also said they "should be covering . . . attacks on religion in this country, not fomenting more persecution and bigotry."

There is certainly nothing wrong with using the media to express one's opinion or write satire, but Doyle and ...

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JoAnn
1 year ago
Colleen: The words atop the Washington Monument are "Laus Deo" - Praise God. God bless.
six bits
1 year ago
Doyle is another atheist . His rantings sound like something coming out of the Middle Ages and earlier.

Curiously, those who are atheists claim they have no religion. Wrong. Doyle and other non-believers are hateful in 'their religion'. yES, THEY HAVE A RELIGION: hating God and his followers.

Have never read but have seen reps of the Huffington Post on TV. I thought that it was a legitimate leftist post......not one with maliciously insane writers and manuscripts from the Dark Ages. Now I wonder why it was ever given any credence at all.
Barbara Logan
1 year ago
Dear American Catholics - after reading your comments on abortion and the attacks on our Church, I am so encouraged to see that there are still so many who love Truth, Life, Love and are not afraid to speak out in love - thank you from a sister in New Zealand!
vance
1 year ago
Michael Terheyden, another great article. Thank you for 'Defining' who the 'Secularists' are. "LIBERALS". This and other websites stick to the generic term 'Secular' to describe 'Liberals' Your article is indeed a shining example of Liberal Establishment's war on the Catholic Church and our Christian Society. Doyle is just one out of many of the Liberal Establishment's hand diabolic puppets doing the dirty work. This is all directed by the "Man Behind the Curtain" the Marxist Democrat Party.
Rob
1 year ago
Sadly, this is the usual line of attack that comes from folks like this. Given all the Church has been through since the time of Christ, I think we'll weather this attack. The author makes a good point about control of the media. Unfortunately that shipped sailed a long time ago. News has been hijacked by corporations interested in shock value and ratings more than informing the masses. Maybe it's our fallen nature, but I don't know if pure information delivery is possible given we all look at things through a certain lense. As to the other attacks, what absolutely angers me is that our own hieracrcy is solely resonsible for allowing this priest abuse from persisiting. They have refused to properly clean house so that issue is always out there to beat us over the head. Seems like we start to get past it and then another scandal blows up in our face. But more importantly, it's just another thing that makes are witness harder. But lest we just throw up our hands and play the victim, we do need to realize that we've given our enemies plenty to hurl at us. We have to stop pretending that we don't bear some responsibility for this. We've kept our light under the lampshade for far too long. It's going to take some time to regain the credibility that the priest abuse scandal has caused. And it's also going to take some time to form our own. We seem to have problems in our own house, how in the world can we be effective outside it?
Robert Burford
1 year ago
I have some Lutheran friends who are great Christians but criticise my faith because the Catholic Church does not permit non Catholics to receive holy communion. I always carry a small childs sissors in my bible and always offer it so they can cut out the offending words in their bibles. John 6: 51-63 offers the same scenerio that Mr Doyle of the Huffington post proposes. Some of Jesus followers did leave but Peter and the rest of the twelve apostles stayed. Why? Because Jesus has the words of everlasting life. If you do not believe that this is the real body of Jesus like He said it was why do you think that you should receive it? Mr Doyle has no credibliity because Jesus has the words of eternal life. I dont have to understand how Transubstanciation works to believe in the doctrine. The Huffington Post should cut out the offending words in their bibles but then again I am not sure if they have one or have even read a bible.
john
1 year ago
Wow...this Doyle guy should join up with that other hateful so-called comedian Bill Maher..they could be the hateful version of Abbott and Costello.Ignorance is bliss is'nt it Mr.Doyle.It's folks like you that only strenghten and confirm our faith..your also unwillingly fullfilling prophesies..as Christ said..if they hate you ,,remember that the world hated me first..as well as the prophesies of the coming persecution of the church..here is a man who will gladly stoke the fires of hatred and call for the brutalization of men,women and children simply because of religious belief.Who is the real nazi here Mr.Doyle?
Rosered13
1 year ago
JMJ
His wild theories and insulting lanuage remind me of Luther...
J. Dickinson
1 year ago
I know that our Lord said we should pray for and forgive those who persecute us, but it appears to me that Larry Doyle sounds like a card-carrying member of the Klan. After reading Doyle's column "The Jesus Eating Cult of Rick Santorum" that's the only conclusion I can arrive at.
Colleen
1 year ago
It is unfortunate that so many Catholics voted for and probably continue to vote for those on the left. Their ultimate goal is to replace God with government ala marxism/communism. In America, they have been attacking us for 100 years at least. Acceptance of equal justice instead of equal rights in our Church is dangerous because equal justice is a tool to marxism/communism. What I would dearly love to see is a rekindling of interest in the founding of these United States by the Church. Divine Providence was how this country was created. 3 signers of the Constitution were Catholic and 1 signer of the Declaration of Independence was a Catholic. All of the signers were devout Christians even Benjamin Franklin. Public schools are not teaching the truth about this country and it's Judeo-Christian foundation and founders. They are remaking history on purpose. The founders had 10,000 bibles printed so that school children could study the bible in school. Christian masses were performed in the Capitol building early on. Let's teach our children these and other truths and facts in our Churches and groups. Question: What is written on the top of the Washington Monument?

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