Hypocrites

The debate regarding church attire has reached new level: public media. It went into STOMP and My Paper yesterday. I am not too sure about other media. It will be exciting to see what the priests have got to say regarding this matter in the coming weekend.

This time, I find the whole incident to be extremely shocking and disturbing. A woman wearing samfoo (a traditional Chinese attire, the sibling of cheongsam :p) was reprimanded. The issue was the pants being about 2 inches above the ankles. Tell me what is so inappropriate about that! Sigh.. The horror does not end there. Her husband asked the parish priest about this. The reply was reported as: there is no question of modesty or immodesty, we say it is appropriate for pants to be full length.

The other side of the story is actually this parish has been announcing the supposed "dress code" for about 1 year. So some parishioners are not too happy about this being reported with the parish name being published too.

I find this DISGUSTING. I don't really understand what the fuck is wrong with these people. I agree that bikinis, singlets, mini skirts, hot pants may be too revealing. But if flesh is the issue, that means women night gown or dress may be deemeed inappropriate too? After all, some may be baring the shoulders. But what is wrong with open-toed shoes, bermudas (below knee length)? The day they ban me from wearing these will be the day I stop going to church. Neither Jesus nor Pope has ever come out with a decree on what are deemed acceptable or not as attire for mass. These hypocrites are just ruining the church.. and ruining the others too. Imagine you scold someone for wearing sunglasses because the person just had eye procedures.. or you scold someone for wearing hat/cap because the person is dropping hair due to chemo. Sigh.. I am sure you hypocrites also gossip, bitch, lie, cheat, steal, masturbate, watch porn, think dirty, scold vulgarities, etc daily. Going to church and dressing nice do not make you holier than the rest of us. Please do not judge people from the dress :(

Ok I apologise. I, too, may be a bit biased about bikinis, singlets, mini skirts etc. But for me, I will respect whatever people want to wear.

Well, whatever people say, Jesus is the Way, the Truth, the Life. The Catholic Church (or any Church, or any religion) is NOT the way, the truth, the life. So I don't think there is an issue with leaving the church as long as I believe in Jesus right? 

God, I pray for you to purify and safe your Church and your people from current Satan's work to sow discord among us.