{"id":1093,"date":"2010-04-03T23:36:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T04:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2013-01-28T21:41:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T02:41:23","slug":"the-neverending-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/the-neverending-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Neverending Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

I usually try to mix things up in the Things Atheists Didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Do stories.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll list different religions and mix a few silly, amusing things in with the horrific crimes committed in the name of a god.\u00c2\u00a0 But the mess in the Catholic Church has resulted in so many bizarre stories it deserves a post all to itself.<\/p>\n

When the story started, back in Boston, many years ago, the church could<\/em> have been heroic simply by admitting what had been happening and punishing those involved.\u00c2\u00a0 The pedophile priests could have been turned over to the authorities.\u00c2\u00a0 The bishops who moved them from congregation to congregation (where they could find fresh meat) could have been defrocked and publicly denounced.\u00c2\u00a0 The church could have apologized for the incredible pain they caused to satisfy the lust of their perverts.<\/p>\n

Instead they covered it up, fought every attempt to bring it to light, refused to cooperate with investigators and intimidated the victims.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of the bishops were actually rewarded for their behavior; moved to the Vatican where they’ll spend the rest of their lives in luxury.\u00c2\u00a0 (Considering they’re bishops, is that considered a diagonal move?)<\/p>\n

It’s pretty much settled down in the states, but now the same scandal is exploding in Europe, with one big difference:\u00c2\u00a0 Pope Ratzenberger is up to his ears<\/a> in this one.\u00c2\u00a0 He actively helped a pedophile who molested over 200 kids.\u00c2\u00a0 Deaf kids.<\/p>\n

And then it gets worse.<\/p>\n

The Pope issued a letter of apology<\/a> to the victims, but never mentioned any penalties or punishments for for the bishops or priests involved.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead he blamed the problem on “society.”\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The fact that the church has a decades long history of not just covering up, but aiding and abetting such behavior, somehow went unmentioned.\u00c2\u00a0 Must have slipped his mind.<\/p>\n

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Bill Donahue, the head of the Catholic League, claims that it’s not pedophilia<\/a> because the most of the boys molested were post pubescent, not pre-pubescent, reducing their horror to a dictionary argument.\u00c2\u00a0 He claims that the real problem was homosexuality, which anyone with a half a brain cell (i.e. not Bill) knows has nothing to do with pedophilia.<\/p>\n

Oh, and just in case this somehow makes it to court?\u00c2\u00a0 The Vatican, aka The Holy See,\u00c2\u00a0 has declared that the Pope is immune<\/a> to any legal claims.\u00c2\u00a0 Because he’s so holy, you see.\u00c2\u00a0 Not holy enough to do anything about rampant pedophilia – that’s evidently beyond his Popely super-powers – but holy enough that he can shirk any responsibility for it.<\/p>\n

The Pope has lashed out, not at the perpetrators and enablers of the abuse, but against those who had the audacity to report it<\/a>, particularly the New York Times and the AP. \u00c2\u00a0 Damn, if those nosy news organizations would just stop talking about it, it might all go away.<\/p>\n

A Vatican priest compared the criticism of the church to the persecution of Jews<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 He whined, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The use of stereotypes, the passing from personal responsibility and guilt to a collective guilt, remind me of the more shameful aspects of anti-Semitism.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Great comparison there, Sparky.\u00c2\u00a0 Free clue, you incredibly insensitive piece of dung: Seeing your family gassed to death by a madman\u00c2\u00a0 isn’t quite in the same league as the same as being called to task for something you’re guilty of<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And those priests caught up in the first scandal, here in the US?\u00c2\u00a0 Some of them are being very quietly reinstated<\/a> to churches across the country.\u00c2\u00a0 A pedophile is a terrible thing to waste.<\/p>\n

This should be the end of Catholic Church, but it won’t be. The only thing more boundless than the evil of the Vatican is the infinite gullibility of its followers.<\/p>\n

Edited to Add: <\/strong> At an Easter mass one of the bishops said, “\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Holy Father, the people of God are with you, and do not let themselves be impressed by the gossip of the moment, by the challenges that sometimes strike at the community of believers.”<\/p>\n

I can’t contain my disgust with these evil, evil people.\u00c2\u00a0 This is not gossip.\u00c2\u00a0 Thousands of your priests fucked little boys<\/strong>, over and over and over again. <\/em> You condoned <\/em>it.\u00c2\u00a0 You enabled <\/em>it.\u00c2\u00a0 You excused <\/em>it.\u00c2\u00a0 You lied <\/em>about it.\u00c2\u00a0 And now you’re belittling the thousands of victims you’ve scarred for life.<\/p>\n

You filthy scumbags should be put out of business by any means possible.\u00c2\u00a0 You should be sued into poverty.\u00c2\u00a0 You should lose your tax free status.\u00c2\u00a0 Every one of your churches, everywhere on earth, should be seized and sold, either to a commercial entity or to a religion that doesn’t fuck little children.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyone contributing to the church should be imprisoned for aiding and abetting child rape, and should probably be institutionalized for being too stupid to be allowed in public in any civilized society.<\/p>\n

Every single one of you, every pope, every cardinal, every guilty priest, every priest who makes excuses for his fellow kiddie-fuckers, Bill Donahue, and every idiot believer who still supports the church, belongs in prison for the rest of their life, sharing a cell with a very large, well-endowed, horny rapist who will treat you the way you’ve treated the children.<\/p>\n

You are scum.\u00c2\u00a0 You are beneath <\/em>scum.<\/p>\n

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Condoned<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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