Says the guy who held out on information about pedophile priests until the "statute of limitations expired".
Yeah, well, he should know about Nazis from his days in Hitler Youth. He also said gays and lesbians are worse than child rapists, something else he knows a lot about. And that helping a raped 9 year old girl terminate a pregnancy means excommunication but the rapist is not excommunicated. If ever there were an argument for atheist humanism....
Neither am I. I'm not Mormon either, but the Catholic and Mormon churches poured millions of dolars and hundreds of "volunteers" spreading lies to defeat my civil rights in my state. They also crusade against rights for women. So I can't just say I don't care.
Pope visit: Five suspected Islamist terrorists arrested over assassination plot The men were arrested during raids at 5.45am at a rubbish depot in central London based on an intelligence tip off received overnight. The suspects, aged 26, 27, 36, 40 and 50 were arrested by officers from Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. They are said to be from a variety of nationalities including a number of Algerian origin. The depot where they worked is less than a mile from Hyde Park where the Pope was due to hold a prayer vigil tomorrow evening. As street cleaners they would have been able to move relatively freely and inconspicuously through the London crowds. Westminster City Council said the men worked for Veolia Environmental Services, a contractor which employs 650 on-street staff to keep Westminster's streets clean and free from rubbish. The men have been taken to a central London police station where they will be interviewed by detectives. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...rorists-arrested-over-assassination-plot.html
What a hypocritical coward. If he truly ever had an issue with Hitler and the Nazis, he had many chances to speak up or even better resist and oppose them. He chose to be an obedient servant and spent years actively committing atrocities with them. Now he hides his shame behind religion.
Seems like Catholicism has swan dived down into the arena of topics like racism or Mel Gibson. Used to have so many defenders, and now when a Catholicism-bashing conversation comes up it's not even really a debate. It's a bunch of people pointing out what pisses them off the most about it. There may be one quiet Catholic in the corner, but he doesn't want to speak up because hey, who wants to defend the pedophiles. When it gets to this stage of death spiral, do the subjects ever pull out?
It's not Catholic bashing to criticize hate spewing, whoever does it. Anyone wants to practice Catholic faith, their right and their business. Ignorance, hate spewing, acceptance of genuine Nazism while finding "Nazis" in everyone with whom you disagree is wrong whether it's the pope or Rush Limbaugh.
Your wild over generalizations against religion are funny yet rather naive. Chit happened all the time (and still does to some) that the average man could not find a reasonable or scientific explanation to so to them the only answer available was that a higher power must have deemed it and/or caused it. Was that the right thing to do? No. Does that mean they were trying to scam themselves or others? No. Just like your assumption that a shooting that happened last Easter must mean that the people involved were religious zealots.
I think we should differentiate "religion" or "spirituality" from "organized religion." I don't think people who postulated a higher power to explain things that seemed unexplainable were ingenuine. Leaders who organized masses of people under a certain belief system? I don't think you can paint them all with the same brush, of course, but I think many of them were using the seduction of religion/god to control people. It's complicated by the fact that some/many of them may even have begun with good intentions. That, however, is hardly unique to religion. That's pretty endemic to any gathering of power. Religion has just been another hook, in many cases.
LOL! I know my reply to Hasoos was overly simplistic. That was intentional based on the comment I was replying to.
