So this is what it takes to get him to smile. I suppose, what else are we to expect from men who wear gowns everyday and have fancy hats for special occasions?
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Deaf victim of sex abuse Sueing the Pope
“I went into his office, the door was closed,” he said. “And Father Murphy said, ‘Take your pants down. And so I did… you know, he was always in his black attire with a white collar, and you know … I was questioning why he would ask me to do that. Here he is, a priest, and – I have to obey him. And he proceeded to touch me.”
20,000 Protest Pope’s Visit to England
ichard Dawkins’ website has full details and video about the march. Dawkins gave a short speech in response to the Pope’s accusation that Atheists are responsible for Hitler. He also explains why the non theistic community is upset with the Pope’s cover up of the sexual abuse cases
Pope Benedict Cannot Ride out Scandal in Modern Age
From Time.com
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How do you atone for something terrible, like the Inquisition? Joseph Ratzinger attempted to do just that for the Roman Catholic Church during a grandiose display of Vatican penance — the Day of Pardon on March 12, 2000, a ritual presided over by Pope John Paul II and meant to purify two millenniums of church history.
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Priest agrees with Dawkins: Arrest the Pope
CNN interview with Massachusetts Priest who thinks that anyone who helped cover up the rape of children participated in criminal acts.
Why Humanists Should be Concerned with Catholic Rape
This article was brought to my attention last week. “Why Humanists shouldn’t join in this Catholic-Bashing” by Brenden O’Neill.
I disagree with O’Neill on a number of views:
1) O’Neill suggests that two factors need to be considered in the Church’s sex scandal “the backward cult of victimhood and the dominant ‘new atheist’ prejudice against any institution with strong beliefs.” I can agree with the first observation that the victims, young children would have been terribly confused as to what to do after being raped. Their parents told them to trust priests and that priests are there as representatives of Jesus, whom they have been told is someone they should worship. Does a child tell her parents, another adult, who does she trust? And when she tells someone, do they believe her? And IF they believe her, do they have the guts to questions their own pastor or religious environment enough to raise a stink?
The second suggestion that there is a prejudice against an “institution with strong beliefs” misses the point of atheism. An atheist’s stance on religion is “show me the evidence”. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Fantastical religions like the Catholic church who believe that they have to eat Jesus’ actual flesh and blood in order to live in a unproven “heaven” after they die comes with no empirical evidence. That is simply the tip of the iceberg when it comes to fantastical claims, believed strongly but completely unsupported by evidence. There is no prejudice against strong beliefs, there is simply an intolerance for fantastical beliefs with no evidence for their validity.
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