Posts Tagged ‘The Vatican’

The Quotable Henry Rollins

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

“Let the record speak for itself. The Catholic Church does not approve of homosexuality; their position on pedophilia, however, is not as clear. I am sure most Catholics do not approve of pedophilia, but the executive branch of Catholicism seems to have difficulty convincing some of us that they are willing to do what is necessary to make sure that the members of their staff who are active sexual predators are brought to justice. I can’t see any sane person not wanting someone who harms innocent children taken out of circulation as soon as possible. Relocating them is tantamount to enabling them further. Maybe there should be a television show called To Catch A Priest. I’ll watch.”

— Henry Rollins, poet, activist and punk rock legend, on the Catholic church’s expulsion of the pre-school-aged child of two Boulder, Colorado lesbians, from his editorial It’s Time for Gays to Start Discriminating Against the Catholic Church

Jim Jeffries nails religion (to the cross)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Jim Jeffries on religion (video: venomfanex at YouTube)

Don’t even think of clicking the start arrow if you’re easily offended by grown-up language or by people who actually tell the truth about people who make shit up for fun and profit.

(tip: Atheist Media Blog)

Unraveling the ‘no gay homos’ code

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

(video: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)

The Daily Show’s Jason Jones interviews Dan Barker, of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Barker, rightly, wants Mother Teresa off her Vatican-ass-kissing US postage stamp.

As for that whole Mother Teresa is a “great humanitarian” codswallop, read Christopher HitchensMommie Dearest – The pope beatifies Mother Teresa, a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud.

Only one person in history was less deserving of being honored with a Nobel Peace Prize. So, here’s a compromise: Let’s put Mother Teresa’s face on condoms destined for distribution by Obama’s PEPFAR in Africa.

(tip: Atheist Media Blog)

The Quotable Sinead O’Connor

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

“From the Pope on down, through the Vatican and therefore through the lower echelons, the whole organisation, in my belief, is utterly anti-Christian and evil, as proven by centuries of torture, bloodshed, burnings, terrorism, and coverings-up of “the worst crime” known to man.

“And if Jesus Christ is to be seen in the vulnerable of this world, then all the church has done is crucify the man over and over and over again.

“If Christ was here, he would be burning down the Vatican. And I for one would be helping him.”

— Sinead O’Connor, Irish activist and singer/songwriter, from I’d help Jesus to burn down the Vatican — responding to the plea by Catholic Bishop Denis Brennan for rank and file Irish Catholics to help cover the mounting expenses of the church’s massive pedophile priest scandal

(tip: Joe.My.God.)

CNN: Vatican hit by gay sex scandal

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Vatican Hit By Gay Sex Scandal (video: Atheist Media Blog at YouTube)

CNN covers the intrinsically disordered Vatican’s latest PR cataclysm.

From Atheist Media Blog:

The Vatican has been thrown into chaos by reports that one of the Pope’s ceremonial ushers, as well as a member of the elite Vatican choir, were involved in a homosexual prostitution ring.

The allegations came to light after Italian newspapers published transcripts of phone calls recorded by police, who had been conducting an unrelated corruption investigation.

The tapes appear to record Angelo Balducci, a Gentleman of His Holiness, negotiating with Thomas Chinedu Ehiem, a 29-year-old Nigerian Vatican chorister, about men he wanted brought to him for sexual purposes. Balducci was allegedly paying 2,000 euros ($2,714) for each man he met, according to the Irish Times.

CNN International has still more.