The pope still doesn’t get it

Paul at Cafe Philos put the atheist “A” letter on his sidebar in solidarity with nontheists. Not because he’s a nontheist particularly; the question of god’s ontological existence is not of interest to him one way or the other.  But he wanted to make a statement, particularly in support of one Nicole Smalkowski, a teen girl in Oklahoma facing prejudice and bullying.

Which inspires me to go find the atheist “A” and put it on my sidebar as well - it’s now next to my “Religion & humanism” links.  Because my other inspiration is Pope “Ratzinger” Benedict XVI visiting our country, offering some inspiring thoughts about the child-molesting priests.  He assures us that…

“we will absolutely exclude paedophiles from the sacred ministry”

Oh, yeah… heh… What were we thinking?  Those kid-raping, trust-betraying phonies are so out of our frock club!

He laid part of the blame for the crisis, of which he feels “deeply ashamed”, on a breakdown in US values.

Um,  exqueeze me?  It’s a breakdown in OUR values?!!!

I will pause at this moment to allow the Catholics in the audience to put on hearing protection.  On second thought, don’t.  It’s probably considered disrespectful to address the pope this way, but public piety will only buy you just so much immunity from criticism.  I’ll phrase it as a blockquote to set it off from the rest of the post:

Pope Ratz, you stinking sack of corruption!  How DARE you come to OUR country and tell us that our values are breaking down?  Kiddie porn is illegal in this country.  We prosecute child molesters in this country, and send them to prison!  And once they’re in prison, even our criminals hate them! 

But not you, oh no, before you were Pope, you wrote a memo calling on bishops to hide evidence, to transfer offenders, and to protect the good name of the church.  YOU let the infection grow, and deepen.  YOU moved the enablers beyond the reach of law enforcement.

You, your “holiness”, OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE! Don’t come to our country dressed in your finery and lecture us about morals.  You are precisely this: a “whitewashed sepulchre, full of dead men’s bones.“

OK, now on with our show…

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Posted by George on 04/18/08 at 09:22 PM
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