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Richard Dawkins to citizen arrest the Pope

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Well well well,

This arrogant missing link is now proposing to arrest the Pope. Good on him.

[Q]RICHARD DAWKINS, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain “for crimes against humanity”.

Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.[Q]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7094310.ece

Brad
 
I'm with you Tink, getting sick of this rude pig showing up everywhere and being worshiped LIKE a God by his followers.
 
Remember kids, if you can't play the ball, play the man.
 
I think it is about time the arrogant catholic church was made to be more accountable for sweeping decades of child abuse within its ranks under the mat.

Good for Richard Dawkins for making a stand against these atrocities
 
Yeah

I don't like Dawkins at all, and I wouldn't care who brought the catholic church to justice over this, the bleedin' obvious. How does keeping kiddie ****ers in employment after they're found out get justified by this organisation? Beats me.

It is about time this area is finally and properly legally addressed in the RC church.
 
Well I'm in full support of Richard Dawkins. He is a very erudite thinker and writer, and he can back up all of his claims. He is entitled to his opinion about religion. This does not make him a "rude pig" as Matty calls him, and I have never heard him express hatred verbally or read it in his writings. Where do you get that idea Tink? I think I detect a bit of hatred and bigotry elsewhere!!

The pope is no-one special and he needs to be as accountable as any other human being for his actions
 

I don't think we can depend on God to bring him to account. If God was fair dinkum he would hand out the same treatment to the Vatican gang as he did to Sodom and Gomorrah.
 
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Spot on Calliope!
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Yep, second and third that. In fact to pacify some of my inner hate towards the catholic system of what I went through as a youth would love to be on the arresting team.
 
"In 1985, in his then capacity as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Pope Benedict signed a letter arguing that the good of the universal church should be considered before the defrocking of an American priest who committed sex offences against two boys."

From,
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/12/2869790.htm

If the above is accurate I find it incredible that an argument of that nature could ever be entertained. I believe that the correct immediate response would be mandatory defrocking, incarceration and victim support.
 
But that has always been the case, hasn't it. The "good of the church" has always come before the good of the people the church is supposed to succour. Never mind that people's lives are ruined, that they commit suicide........ that sacrifice is OK as long as the good name of the church is protected. The hypocrisy beggars belief

I am trying to imagine the pope being arrested in London......... how exquisite!
 
Ruby said:
I am trying to imagine the pope being arrested in London......... how exquisite!
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Yes, exquisite

The pope claims to be "God's Vicar on Earth". It's amazing that God has put up with this nonsense for centuries. Perhaps He has been waiting for someone like Richard Dawkins to use as his instrument to settle the score.
 
Calliope said:
Yes, exquisite

The pope claims to be "God's Vicar on Earth". It's amazing that God has put up with this nonsense for centuries. Perhaps He has been waiting for someone like Richard Dawkins to use as his instrument to settle the score.
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That is a good point. I have read Dawkins work and he is a man committed to ethics and proper standards to live by. The infrastructure of religion should not be wasted, we just need to rewrite the entire constitution to meet todays needs.

As a child witnessed countless priests spitting from the pulpit the great line in retrospect:- "suffer the little children and bring them unto me" Another great one is if a man should bring down another in morals, the line, "tie a millstone around his neck and throw him into the depths of the sea."

Maybe what goes round will come around.
 
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