To the Pope (NSFW... REAAAALLYYY NSFW)

To get this little ditty out of your head you will probably have to resort to Afternoon Delight, or maybe even Waterloo.  But it expresses things just oh so well.

OMFG... Part III

Is this audacity?  Myopia?  Obliviousness?

My guess is YesYesYes.  The Vatican is now claiming that the pedophilia and rape allegations are due to people not liking the Pope and church's "stance on abortion and same-sex marriage."

"By now, it's a cultural contrast," Sodano told the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. "The pope embodies moral truths that aren't accepted, and so, the shortcomings and errors of priests are used as weapons against the church."

"The pope embodies moral truths"....  HE PROTECTED AND ENABLED PEDOPHILES AND RAPISTS!  I am curious as to which moral truths the protection and enabling of pedophiles and rapists embodies.

Oppression, Suppression, Whatever.... Either Way it is Wrong

Again we have a "man of god" - the leader, in fact, of a billion believers - abusing his god's influence to oppress those who are not like him...

'A celibate man in a dress and a beanie pontificates about how a law granting equal employment rights to homosexuals in the UK is "against the natural law."'  (skepdic.com)

This man, as a leader of a billion people, could do a lot of good in helping make people's lives better.  Instead, he tells his subjects "those others are not like you, so they deserve to be treated as less than human!"

But then, what else would you expect from the leader of the group that defended the catholic church during the sex abuse scandal, covering up for the church for 20 years.

He's a helluva guy.

Self-flagellation?

I was always told that self-flagellation would make me go blind and grow hair on my palms. Pope JP-II must have had a great barber - you never saw a hairy palm when he was waving to the crowd. On top of that, he always seemed to be looking right at you.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/01/27/pope.flagellate/index.html

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/01/pope-john-paul-iis-theology-of-the-body.html