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A few days ago, I informed you about the action Znakoju nowy.tezeusz.pl/blog/210967.html I did not add a comment to my note then. During these few days so much happened that it is impossible to ignore it.
Some LGBT circles and some Catholic circles supported the action symbolized by clasped hands. It is a symbolic sign of peace, a sign of reconciliation beyond divisions (it might seem). Unfortunately, this sign was radically rejected by the Polish Episcopate and by other Catholic circles. In colloquial language, we were shown the middle finger. The bishops’ response is an evident rejection of peace, rejection of dialogue. It is an obvious gesture of a declaration of war. It is an act that takes away any hope for change and brings bad implications. Cardinal Dziwisz’s reprehensible attitude, his disgusting manipulations on the destruction of World Youth Days by gays and the perverse text of Archbishop Gądecki, Jędraszewski and Miziński, which today appeared on the Episcopate’s website, which in the name of defending heterosexual marriage in fact accepts the Church’s policy of allowing contempt for people LGBT people and their discrimination, as well as violates the freedom of conscience of those supporting the campaign, convinced me to make an important, life decision.
I declare that I am leaving the community of the Catholic Church.
I don’t feel happy about it. I feel bitterness and sad.
I do this with the firm conviction that I can no longer be a hostage of the political games of the church hierarchs, clergy and laity who, in the name of fighting homosexual marriage, led the call for the catechism to treat homosexuals with respect, to a meaningless cliche. I’m fed up with your hypocrisy, disgusting cynicism. I’m sick of your enslaving. Your degenerate moral attitudes have led and still are leading to much harm and suffering to LGBT people. I do not agree to it! Today you are losing all priesthood authority over me.
I really regret that for many years I have defended the Catholic Church in the media, in LGBT forums. I am very sorry that I had distracted many gays from my decision to quit. In fact, I was wrong. I made a mistake. In doing this, I introduced you to the “lion’s mouth”. Very much for those who stayed in the Catholic Church because of me and were hurt by the people of the Church: I’m sorry, Please forgive me.
Dear LGBT readers reading my blog. I am not persuading you to leave, although I am leaving myself. However, I urge you: do not allow yourself to be humiliated! Defend those who are weak and cannot defend themselves, especially against the people of the Church, biblical Pharisees, their attitudes, deeds and words adorned for falsehood with epithets of mercy, respect and dignity, and in fact depriving themselves of dignity, respect and freedom.
If you choose to do what I do, I have two requests. First, don’t reject all Christianity. There is much good in it that will make your life better and happier. Discern what is good in your consciences, in your hearts. Second: be careful not to become indifferent. I am very afraid of this. I am aware that indifference is a powerful weapon. A very effective, religicidal weapon. Also for Catholicism. However, it is a double-edged sword. It hurts and destroys the one who uses it.
Finally, I want to thank the people of Theseus. The time spent on the portal was important. Thank you to Mrs. Małgorzata and Mr. Andrzej for the opportunity to run a blog and a friendly reception, thank you bloggers for their interesting entries and comments. Thank you for the Ecumenical Retreat which made me more ecumenical.
My decision to leave the Catholic Church causes me to stop blogging. It is my will, however, that it remains active. Perhaps someone reading one of my entries will find something important in it.
Saying goodbye to you under these circumstances makes me feel strange. I have the impression that we are becoming more alien in a sense, even though we didn’t get to know each other in the real world. Maybe it’s because we had something in common… And now it’s over. I do not know.
I dedicate to all of you the song of Stary Dobre Małżeństwo – Prayer of the end of my age.
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