Pope charged with crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court. About time.

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Two German lawyers from Marktheidenfeld in Pope Benedict's home state of Bavaria have filed charges against the Pope in the International Criminal Court alleging crimes against humanity. The 16,500-word submission from Christian Sailer and Gert-Joachim Hetzel alleges “three worldwide crimes which until now have not been denounced . . . (as) the traditional reverence toward ‘ecclesiastical authority’ has clouded the sense of right and wrong”.

Full details are available in the Irish Times.

Pope ogles topless men in the Vatican

From Russia Today:

"A usually staid weekly Papal audience was spiced up this week with an acrobatic performance by a troupe of topless men. The four performers dressed in white suits walked across the stage towards the Papal throne and surprised the Pope by whipping off their shirts before beginning an acrobatic performance on Tuesday. The Pope looked on as the men hoisted each other into the air, one on top of the other, three high."

Pope's astronomer would be pleased to baptize an alien "no matter how many tentacles it has" | Boing Boing

Mark Frauenfelder at 1:20 PM Friday, Sep 17, 2010

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Guy Consolmagno, astronomer to the pope, is profiled in the Economist. He says intelligent design is "bad theology" that has been "hijacked" by American creationist fundamentalists. He also would be "delighted" to discover intelligent extraterrestrial life.

read the full article at boingboing.net

 

A secularist manifesto | Evan Harris | guardian.co.uk

Secularism is not atheism (lack of belief in God) and nor is it humanism (a nonreligious belief system). It is a political movement seeking specific policy end-points. Many secularists are religious and many religious people – recognising the value of keeping government and religion separate – are secular.
read the full article at guardian.co.uk

 

The Pope and Aids | Ben Goldacre

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Ratzinger has proclaimed that “The most effective presence on the front in the battle against HIV/AIDS is in fact the Catholic Church and her institutions.” This is a ludicrous claim. They’re the only major influential international political organisation that actively tells people not to do something that works, on a huge scale.  Their own figures show that their numbers are growing in Africa, even faster than the population does.

Read the full article at badscience.net

 

The Catholic church believes ordaining women priests is as grave a crime as child rape

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The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (or the Inquisition, as they used to be called) have decided, in their document the Substantive Norms, that attempting to ordain a woman as a priest is every bit as terrible a crime as a priest abusing their position to sexually assault a child.

Clearly this is offensive, misogynist nonsense and is designed to protect the patriarchal power structures of the church. And as you would expect, sane people the world over are outraged by the proclamation.

Of course, if you happen to live in the UK, your taxes are going to fund the Pope's state visit to Britain later this year to spread more superstition and intolerance - you might want to check out the link below.

Richard Dawkins hopes to have Pope arrested for crimes against humanity

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Dawkins hopes that the fact that Pope Benedict XVI was more interested in protecting the Catholic Church from scandal than he was in protecting children from paedophile priests means there is a good chance of having him prosecuted.  Here's the Telegraph article.

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