Daily Archives: 12 March 2010

“I seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”

(should be) Wanted for obstruction of justice

Joseph Alois Ratzinger, known to the world as the Bishop of Rome (Pope) Benedict XVI, has pedophilic blood on his hands.

Figuratively, at least.

It’s been disclosed that the Munich diocese that he oversaw as an archbishop transferred a priest suspected of pedophilia to another position. It is inconceivable, despite Vatican protestations to the contrary, that Ratzinger did not know the facts of the details of the case and did not chose to pass the pedophile on to another assignment–one at which the scum was later caught and convicted of child sexual abuse.

This is atop the already-known fact that the pontiff, while running the office of Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith in 2001, wrote a letter to all bishops directing that his office would handle all matters of pedophilial accusations internally, and that such matters were to be regarded as pontifical secrets (making it a sin to reveal the matters).

This is all very interesting, being that

  • Bishops of the Irish Catholic Church repeatedly asked for clarification on what that 2001 letter exactly meant.
  • The Vatican never responded to the requests.
  • Last month the pope called those Irish bishops in for a “discussion” of the matter.

In the Catholic Church, it’s business as usual.

In America, that’s called obstruction of justice.

“Stalin, Pol Pot, and George Carlin walk into a bar…”

Pharyngula is having fun in Melbourne, Australia, at the Global Atheist Convention.

He mentions Chris Mulherin, a Christian gentleman associated with the Melbourne College of Divinity who is “covering” the convention. Professor Myers quotes him as saying:

“My thoughts so far? As a Christian I am appalled and ashamed of the crimes, victimisation and discrimination committed in the name of Christ or by those who bear his name. To make light of them through humour is risky. And to stereotype religion in such a way is akin to taking Stalin or Pol Pot as your stereotype atheist.”

To make fun of religion is like accepting Stalin or Pol Pot as stereotypical for atheists? He lost me there.

I found a bit more about Mr. Mulherin in academia.edu:

“Science, theology and philosophical hermeneutics. In a nutshell: scientific and theological knowledge have different objects but the same interpretive and faith based ‘method’.”

Bullshit. You cannot use any sort of rational method in the search for theological knowledge, and there is no “faith-based method” in the pursuit of scientific knowledge…

…unless you’re Chris Mulherin, I suppose.

All the bad Republican eggs in one basket

(from Huffington Post)

On April 7 Sarah Palin is planning to appear at a campaign fundraiser for the Minnesota 6th Congressional District’s very own wackadoodle Michelle “census=internment camps” Bachmann.

Bachmann is well-known for own distinct flavors of reasoning. What was her logic for rejecting the census as “unnecessary government intervention into American lives”?

“If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that’s how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.”

It might be noted that the vast majority of Americans who were sent to the WWII-era internment camps were of Japanese descent and were not female Republican representatives.

Other Minnesota Republican dogs are returning to their vomit planning to appear at the rally, including present governor Tim Pawlenty and all-around poor sport would-be senator Norm Coleman.