Yes, every religious group has its child rapists. There are child rapists even among atheists, who have no religion to hide behind. And every religion denies, hides and protects its child rapists who are employees of the church. But none can compete with the ability of the catholic church to maintain an air of utter probity while doing so.
Via Brad Blog:
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Is that the deal popeyfrankie made with the murdering bastards in the Curia? Let me throw the plutocrats and poisoners out of the temple, and I'll let you burn the homos and the women at the stake.So the Vatican is confirming that Pope Francis had a private meeting with Kim Davis and her husband, and did not dispute reports from her attorneys that the Supreme Pontiff gave the embattled Kentucky County Clerk a blessing, an admonition to “stay strong,” and rosaries for her Catholic parents. This is in addition to the earlier evidence Francis supplied to reporters of his agreement with Davis’ claim that government officials can claim a “conscientious objection” to laws that trouble their consciences.What’s most interesting to me about these events is that the Pope is going out of his way to express solidarity with an apparent apostate (it’s possible she was never a Catholic before her fairly recent conversion to an exotic pentecostal faith community, but unlikely if her parents are part of the One True Church) who’s been divorced three times. No wonder conservative Catholics accuse Francis of doctrinal laxity.I guess homophobia covers a multitude of sins.
Francis said he didn't know the case in detail, but he upheld conscience objection as a human right."It is a right. And if a person does not allow others to be a conscientious objector, he denies a right," Francis said.
A papal visit to the United States is cool and all, but should progressives even care?
No. No you shouldn't. And for the same reason you should reject any smiling offers from self-described "libertarians" who claim that Rand Paul attracts the same voters that Bernie Sanders does.The short answer: Yes. Yes, you should. Especially if you want legislative action on immigration reform, climate change, or income inequality.
I just want to know how many children he raped after the church knew he was raping children but before he was caught. Because in those cases, the parish, the bishop, the archbishop, the cardinal, the pope and the whole fucking catlick hierarchy are accomplices and should be in prison with the piece of shit shining example of religious morality.
From the Herald:
A jury convicted a former Catholic priest Wednesday on three counts of sodomy for sex abuse that happened at a church parish in the 1970s.Yeah, yeah, he's dying of cancer. Not remotely painfully or slowly enough.
That people continue to fall for this substance-free bullshit makes me think human-eradicating climate change is not such a bad thing after all.
Yes, of course he "gets it." He gets that his and every other religion retains power only to the extent it can exploit, torture and destroy people with no accountability.In remarks quoted by Vatican radio Friday, Pope Francis “personally asked forgiveness for sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests.During a meeting with a Catholic children’s charity, Pope Francis said that he felt “compelled to personally take on all the evil” perpetrated by some priests, because “you cannot interfere with children.”“It is personal, moral damage carried out by men of the Church,” he said, adding that “sanctions” would be imposed on abusive clergy.
From his simple sound bites to his breaking of Vatican rules, Pope Francis has made being Catholic cool in his first year.
Pope Francis has criticized abortion as evidence of a "throwaway culture" that wastes people as well as food.
At this moment in a Fort Worth hospital, Marlise Munoz’s body is hooked up to machines that are keeping her body alive. Her brain function, her ability to communicate, or hold her child, or kiss her husband—all of those are tragically and irreversibly lost as the result of a pulmonary embolism she suffered the week after Thanksgiving. Marlise had expressed to her husband Erick—both of them were paramedics—that she never wanted to be kept alive this way. So why, despite her own clear wishes and those of her husband and her parents, is she still on life support?
Because Marlise was fourteen weeks pregnant when she passed.
According to The New York Times, more than thirty states place restrictions on when a hospital can remove life support from a pregnant woman, and a dozen, including Texas, have laws on the books that require hospitals to keep a woman’s body alive if she’s pregnant. The hospital must override the doctor’s judgment that she will not recover, the family’s wishes and even the expressed will of the individual herself. In the most tragic way possible, Marlise’s case is forcing us to confront the reality that in far too many places, women are literally seen in the eyes of the law as vessels whose primary function is to produce more offspring. Sound dehumanizing? That’s exactly what it is.
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Lynn Paltrow at National Advocates for Pregnant Women has been tracking these laws for years and advocating for women to be full citizens in the eyes of the law. In 2010, she wrote a piece for The Huffington Post exposing the move towards “personhood” as part of this sinister agenda. She points out that recognizing the humanity of others has never before come at a cost to an entire class of people. When women were recognized as equal citizens under the Constitution, this did not come at a cost to men. She states that “efforts to legally disconnect fetuses and to grant them entirely independent constitutional status would not merely add a new group to the constitutional population: it would effectively denaturalize pregnant women, removing from them their status as constitutional persons.”
Marlise Munoz knew exactly what she wanted to happen to her if a tragedy like the one she suffered befell her, and she had the wisdom to share that information with those closest to her. All her family wants is to honor her wishes. We are fortunate enough to live in a country that values freedom and privacy—it is part of who we are as Americans. But a law that forces complete strangers to desecrate the dying wish of our loved ones shows us how far we have strayed from those very cherished values.
It is a testament to the overwhelming success of repugs and freakazoids in dragging the Overton window completely over the ReichwingJeebus cliff that so many otherwise rational liberals (I'm looking at you, Chris Hayes) are drooling over a catlick dictator who is STILL protecting child rapists.
Fortunately, Angry Atheists see right through bullshit invitations and fake pleas for peace.
PZ Myers:
I also disagree on the nature of the peace he is looking for. The Catholic church desires the peace of ignorance, the peace of acquiescence, the peace of unquestioning acceptance of a dogma calibrated for fools. No, thanks. Give me the kind of peace where dissent can thrive and knowledge grows and ideas can change.
The pope can join in the quest for peace as a fellow human being, but he is not a leader and he is not representative of humanity in any way, and the media attention on his toothless pronouncements is unseemly.
I also don’t want to live under a peace that allows misogyny to thrive and lets child rapists roam free and thinks fetuses are more precious than women. This pope is not my friend nor my ally.
I want to live in a world in which it is not sufficient for a clown to get a prestigious position by bowing to an arcane hierarchy, and then gets a lot of fawning friends, even among atheists who ought to know better, because he is glib about preaching platitudes. I’m not taken in by the smiling façade plastered over the goddamned Catholic Church.
Don’t forget what this man represents, even when he kisses you on the cheek, atheists.
Pope Francis has rejected the idea of female CardinalsYeah. He's a fraud. Nothing's changed. You've been had.
I knew I had a right to be suspicious: “Few eyebrows were raised last week when Pope Francis brought the Vatican’s legal system up to date by criminalizing leaks of official information and formalizing laws against sex crimes. But now that the laws have been made public, a closer look revealed that the pope has made it illegal to report sex crimes against children.”Francis is no less of a child-rapist-protecting, misogynistic, homophobic asshole than his predecessors. He's just much, much better at hiding it behind a false facade of humanity.
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