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Okay, so I think I’m misunderstood, I assert many self-professed Catholics are moderate (by which I mean lazy believers and practitioners), and pedophile priests are doing the Lord’s work.

Who freaking cares? I’m just one stupid werewolf in a big stupid world.

Nonetheless I hope I’ve stated my case for posterity’s sake, because I can’t write much more – my hand is cramping. I have to write this down because I can’t actually talk to anybody about it. This pad of paper is my psychologist’s couch. I hope you understand what a weird feeling it is to always keep everything bottled up. There is literally no one in the whole world I can tell this to – well, that is, and allow them to live.
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Even though I’m a werewolf I won’t be around forever. Yes – all those vampire and werewolf novels about supernatural beings being immortal are wrong wrong wrong wrong. My best guess is that we werewolves only live for about two centuries, that’s it. My back hurts all the time. I’m getting old. Hey – even black holes eventually evaporate away into nonexistence.

Tomorrow will be time to move on. Indeed, the life of the werewolf is peripatetic. Somewhere not too far down the road is another church, another congregation, another something I can be a part of.

So as I was…

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I have had great trouble understanding the mixed messages God has sent down to us on this issue. The Bible says homosexuality is wrong. Yet so many priests in the Catholic Church and in greater Christianity have made worldwide headlines for engaging in pedophilia against children (mostly boys) over a prolonged period of decades if not longer.

Maybe our tiny inferior human brains cannot yet comprehend some greater picture God has revealed to us?

If so, what is God saying? Surely He would not allow rampant worldwide Church-condoned pedophilia to be carried out by priests if He thought it was wrong.

Sure, priests get arrested or accused of the act all the time; so one might argue that is proof God views Church pedophilia as un-Godly. But is society framing this debate correctly?

In asking if pervasive Church pedophilia is wrong, the secular world says yes. This results in priests getting arrested. But all good Christians know better. The real question to ask is if God sees ubiquitous Church pedophilia as repugnant. It could be argued, given the evidence, He does not.

God knows what is in every man and priest’s heart. He has stocked the Catholic Church with select individuals, many of whom are later accused of crimes against children while performing duties as ministers of God. I don’t mean a few bad apples here and there; we are talking potentially thousands of such priests and countless victims. So again, is this part of the divine plan? In that case, I believe God will restore his faithful priests to their rightful standing once they enter His kingdom in the next life.

Moreover, if most Catholics don’t believe this why are there still so many adherents to the religion? Why aren’t there mass protests of Catholics across the world demanding answers? Publically they rebuke pedophile priests and label him as a small minority bad apple. And then they move on continuing as Catholics, with blinders on, as if there is no elephant in the room. Why does is there no collective organized rage to stamp out this issue?
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I didn’t mean to get so far off track, but much like I wanted to give you an accurate picture of me and my evilness I also wanted to put some context to this issue surrounding our priest. He’s under Church-imposed house arrest, and the Bishop has even assigned some new priest fresh out of the seminary to cover and lead the local flock during this dark time.

I’m guessing there will probably be an arrest by the police this week, if the news is to be believed. The court of public opinion has already relegated the poor priest to the gallows. Sigh. I suppose it’s time for me to pay our priest-gone-astray a visit tonight while he is still ‘free’. Like I said, I’m a familiar and welcome face to him. I will have no problem getting into his dwelling with him, alone. I will make sure he does not have to suffer the injustices of this modern world. He has done so much good, but made an alleged secular mistake in the secular world. If God wants this I want this. And my dear old priest will eventually desire as much, too.

​I will help restore him to his place alongside God.

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Tonight is my last night attending Mass at my local church. I will be moving on, as we lycanthropes do, after I take care of some business that is. 

Our priest was – is - considered to be great in the community; but I don’t mean great with the sword. He doesn’t kill for God, at least not as far as I’m aware (although that would be pretty cool). He is more of giver to those in need. He helps charities, finds housing for the homeless, and things like that. His door is always open to his flock, and he knows me well. We’ve spent many an evening debating Arianism, Jesuits, and such things (usually to a Joe Pass record – he really likes jazz guitar). But it so happens our beloved priest has had some very negative press published about him lately, about so called felonious acts – felonious in the world of men, that is. Worse is that these same acts he has allegedly engaged in possibly violate divine teaching.

How do I broach this touchy subject a bit more? I suppose I’ll go back to my handy Bible. Whenever I’m in doubt I can always turn to it. Isn’t it astounding that its scriptures, written in ancient times, can be interpreted for dealing with modern-day problems?  

As I’ve already written, God loathes wickedness. This topic naturally (or should I say unnaturally?) leads us to the topic of homosexuality, among others.

Genesis 38:8-10, an amazing scripture/verse, records God blowing up a dolt for committing coitus interruptus. That means the unlucky guy ‘pulled out’ when lying with his lady. Anyways, this lesson from Genesis says so much more if you care to look. It should be completely obvious to any reasonable person (or werewolf) who reads it. What I mean is this scripture succinctly instructs us on the following: no condoms, and no pulling out. If a guy who lies with his lady does not plant his seed in her then no creation is possible. This is wicked. Duh. Therefore one can so easily deduce from this that homosexuality is infinitely wicked. Period. Homosexuality is like the steroid version of not trying to pro-create, okay? Not good enough evidence? Then take Leviticus 18:22, too.​

Well, this is where our priest is mired in a bit of controversy.

Turns out that some little boy is accusing the priest of committing an abomination on his person in a confessional booth. Remember: the Old Testament proscribes gayness. I guess I cannot be plainer than that. The media is calling our priest a pedophile. How it hurts my heart. The poor priest.

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I know what some of you are thinking. What about ‘thou shall not kill’? With this so-called commandment is God trying to say do as I say but not as I do? Is it ‘thou shall not murder’ in lieu of ‘thou shall not kill’? Let’s not plummet into ecclesiastical debates. Let us instead look to history to show that killing (or murder - call it what thou will) in the name of God is okay with God. Naturally, this ties in nicely with werewolves killing in the name of God, too.

God has intervened in human affairs since Adam and Eve. History shows God has factually backed those who supported Him, even if it condones the use of violence. God is always on the right side of history.

Although He is all-powerful and doesn’t need to have humans fight for Him, He does.

The Lord makes use of instruments – of people who are forceful. As it pertains to the kings[1] of old it was important to be violent, to intimidate your troops, and important to seek out those who would oppose you. Such historical figures had the power God desired to put His holy plan into action. Therefore the kings that God used walked in sight of the Lord even though they were not themselves good people.

I grant you that I am no “Great Man”. I am a mere humble werewolf servant of God, but I see my duties as no less important (at the risk of sounding less than unassuming) than what others have done before me.

I want to end any resistance you might have about my arguing that killing for Christianity is okay by speaking at length on Emperor Constantine, under whose watch Christianity started to cover most of the known world from the safety of a shield wall of Roman Legions; to describe the tedious exploits of Charlemagne’s violence in the name of God; of Clovis’ point-of-a-sword conversion of his subjects to Christianity; of the Vatican’s centuries’-long calls to war against Islam, such as the Crusades; of the Spanish Inquisition; of colonialism; and on and on.

Let me instead focus on one era of killing for God. I think the discovery of the New World will serve this purpose just fine. The way I see it, pre-Columbian America was ignorant of God, and therefore wicked. Think about this - that was the entire western hemisphere almost! God could have unleashed another flood and took everybody out – remember He’s done it before. But did God flood the west Genesis-style to wipe out wickedness? No! In an amazing moment of Self-restraint, God chose instead to kill off only 90%-plus of the natives by war and disease (God spared the animals this time, unlike during the Diluvian cataclysm of Noah’s time). The ones that died probably refused the True Word.

And what of America’s Manifest Destiny? God used Christian righteousness and violence to push westward across the American frontier and further the spread of His message. The unnatural religions practiced by les sauvages in what would become the United States of America met the same end as their pre-Latino cousins. Today our country is overwhelmingly Christian because my American forefathers took the land by force and reeducated the Natives with the True Word. However, I concede these United States are (unfortunately) not necessarily Catholic, but Christian a good start.

These few examples are hard to argue with, but I think quite satisfactorily illustrate that killing for God is more than okay.

This is great news for Catholic werewolves.

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I am a veteran werewolf and, for many decades now, no longer have to wait for the allure of the full moon to coax the wolf-self out from within my human-self. As Emmett leaned against me crying, I drew him in closer and hugged him tighter. While I did, I could feel him recoil ever so slightly unsure of what I meant; the ever-present human mechanism to survive was kicking in. But the fight or flight instinct in prey only serves to hasten the beast’s arrival. My body flooded with intoxicating serotonin right on cue. It always precedes the bloodlust.

I let Emmett pull away from me. He did not run, but instead stared into my lupine eyes – into my horrific visage. He crossed himself, dropping his NIV Study Bible onto the oil-stained asphalt.

I swear my original intentions were to kill him and not to eat him; such was my respect for him. But the smell – the smell of blood that saturated the air after my claws gashed open his carotid artery just under his left jaw was undeniable. O’ but what werewolf can resist the call of freshly spilled blood after being worked up into such frenzy?

I can say Emmett did not suffer long. I stuffed myself wasting not a single morsel of him. I was so full afterwards I did not eat as my human-self for a whole week. And that’s how Emmett Byers ended – with good intentions and a wicked heart.

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