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I’d lost a lot of respect for the seemingly perpetually inebriated Christopher Hitchens over the past decade – what with all the Bush love – but his recent work on the Pope and his culpability in hundreds of molestation cases is winning me back over.
And, as an aside, when are we finally going to get it through our heads that those people who say they speak for God are the ones that we should be the most afraid of, whether it be in the Middle East or right here at home?
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But didn’t God himself choose the Pope? I find it hard to believe that God would choose someone who helped cover up for a guy who fucked and tortured deaf children. Of course, maybe God didn’t choose him. Maybe the Catholic church is just like any other fucked up organization, and the Pope is just like any other CEO. Fuck the lot of them.
I love how the Onion can cut right through all the bullshit.
Some, if you can believe it, are attacking those standing up for the deaf kids that were molested. It’s kind of like how the right is blaming the left for instigating their acts of violence.
From the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/03/31/world/international-us-pope-abuse.html?_r=2
Thee Catholic League is saying that it’s not “pedophilia” but “homosexuality”.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/31/catholic-league-pope/
Being prosecuted for raping children and enabling pedophilia is just like being killed for being Jewish, or so says the Preacher of the Pontifical Household at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
Can religions jump sharks?
And here’s an interesting side note to this conversation… The age of consent in Vatican City is 12 years old – the lowest in the world.
Priorities…. The Vatican, showing that they’re willing to make a significant break with the past, came out today, reversing their position the Beatles.
Roger Ebert had a very nice blog post today on Hitchens, who is dying of cancer.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/08/traveler_to_the_undiscovered_c.html
Breaking news on the Vatican.
— Vatican Bank being investigated for possible violations of money-laundering regulations, Bank of Italy tells CNN.
So, they’re enabling pedophiles.
They’re run by a former member of the Hitler Youth.
And they’re laundering money.