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“The stench of evil”: Christopher Hitchens on Pope Benedict’s cover-up of priest pedophilia
Christopher Hitchens at Slate this week: The Roman Catholic Church is headed by a mediocre Bavarian bureaucrat once tasked with the concealment of the foulest iniquity, whose ineptitude in that job now shows him to us as a man personally … Continue reading
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Tagged cardinal ratzinger, Catholic, Catholicism, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, God, Jesus, pedophilia, pope benedict, roman catholic church
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Nice ring
Membership has its privileges. . Apparently, you get lots of nice things when you cover up for pedophiles. Here’s Andrew Sullivan today: [I]f the Pope asked Brady to resign, wouldn’t he also have to ask himself to resign? After all, … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, Catholicism, child sexual abuse, Christianity, God, Jesus, pedophiles, pedophilia, pope benedict, religion
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Official Vatican exorcist, Don Gabriele Amorth, blames priest pedophilia on Satan, atheists, and working women
No joke. According to Salon today, official Vatican exorcist Don Gabriele Amorth: . . . told the UK Times, “All evil is due to the intervention of the Devil, including pedophilia.” He also added that contemporary culture has “given in … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic, Catholicism, child abuse, don gabriele amorth, exorcism, God, Jesus, pedophilia, religious literalism, Satan, the devil
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Dear Leader Megalomania
I like these two: . And this one: . More from MightyGodKing (MGK) here. And still more Dear Leader totalitarianism and megalomania (but of the Christian fundamentalist variety) here.
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