UNITED STATES
Daily Caller
Religious people can be so delightfully blasphemous when they’re angry.
Which was the case this week after Brett Decker, a conservative Catholic who works for the White House Writers Group and was previously editorial page editor for The Washington Times, wrote an op-ed piece this week that was published in USA Today. The gist of Decker’s story is that Pope Francis should not be canonizing two of his predecessors, John Paul II and John XXIII on account of what Decker deems was their failure to address global clergy sex abuse.
An excerpt: “Canonizing pontiffs from the era of abuse is not only tone deaf but also exposes a continuing, stubborn refusal to acknowledge the institutional coverup that occurred for decades and that those at the highest levels — including popes — didn’t do enough to prevent the crimes, enabling the crisis to continue.”
At least seven people wrote Decker and told him to “go to hell.”
For instance, MariaTM supportively promised, “I will pray for your burning soul.”
And Amanda kept things real simple: “Go to hell lowlife.”
One simple text just said: “hater.”
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