Without the ludicrous reference, you might have thought he was talking about those who raped children, but he wasn't.
Politicians and used car salesmen the world over have used the bait and switch tactic employed by Pope Benedict during his UK visit. It was easy to talk over the faithful masses because they didn't want to think about how priests raped countless children or how Benedict helped to cover any of it up and has since offered nothing more than polite contrition. Let's see how many words about something else will make you forget.…
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26 - John Wilson
Condoms DO reduce the spread of AIDS and, thus, they DO save lives.
Therefore, people who inhibit condom use will certainly increase AIDS infections and deaths.
27 - Cindy (aka He-Man)
Benedict has been one of the good ones, doing more to expose and discipline the pedophiles than anyone. You're just mistaken in characterizing him otherwise.
How can you say this? WTF is wrong with you, Baronius? Please tell me that you have read the news and you still hold that opinion so I can avoid associating with 'the devil'.
Really, Baronius. That is fucked up!
28 - Cindy (aka He-Man)
As is the condom thing.
29 - antonio caetano
Hitler, as far as i know, didn't kill anyone. it was the millions of his followers who did and millions of them were christians.
antonio balonio
30 - Margaret
Theists can torture and murder just like atheists, history is full of filth, torture and murder by both. How about moral decay of the past: mental hospitals in 40´s were concentration camps. Hays code didn´t show reality, but sanitized romanticism. I am happy to live nowadays in secular Finland, among modern privileges and rights.
31 - Igor
For those who like this sort of thing, the radio program "Intelligence Squared" (carried on NPR, and I haven't found a podcast yet) recently debated "We'd be better off without religion" formally, using Oxford rules, with 2 experts pro and 2 experts con. Very interesting. FWIW, I thought the con people, in favor of religion, carried the argument. I'm neither pro or con, myself, being indifferent to religion, a non-theist, basically.
The catholic church, WRT the nazis, has a very poor record, including Ratzingers membership himself in Nazi Youth (boy, that's an interesting juxtaposition of genocide and fixation on boys). As we all know, during WW2 Pope Pius himself declared that Nazi genocide was "None of the Church's business", and after the war they provided "The Vatican Highway" to spirit Nazi war criminals (like Mengele) out of Germany to Argentina. The "Vatican Highway" was still in place as late as 1955 when they smuggled Mengele back into Germany so he could find a new wife (a proper Nazi Youth, one suspects, as opposed to the simple women of Argentina).
And let's see, which pope was it who hid the criminal Bernard Law in the Vatican when the Boston police were hot on his trail for his numerous offenses?
The papacy has a lot to explain to Their Creator, if that Creator is who they claim he is.