I have to quote one of the 625 comments so far.. From the Times Online... Which has some real sense and meaning to it...
Sarf of the River wrote: My very best wishes to Richard Dawkins. I will be more than happy to contribute to a fighting fund.
I was abused at a prep school in the mid to late 70's. It wasn't a religious school however abuse is non-denominational.
That child rape and abuse is still condoned by the Catholic church is abhorrent.
If I could identify my abuser I would probably kill him. Maybe that is what authorities and the Church are afraid of. ----
Well said, Sarf of the river... "abuse and child rape is non-denominational". This is what the vatican cannot get their head around... Never mind about the reputation of the church... Deal with the crime of rape of children and start getting the perpetrators arrested now! And then start the recovery/repair, counselling, compensation to the victims.
Response from Richard Dawkins from the 11th April edition of the "Times online"... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7094310.ece
Taken from The Guardian...April 13th 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/apr/13/pope-prosecution-dawkins
"Unfortunately I must end in bathos, with a necessary correction of a damaging error in another newspaper. The Sunday Times of 11 April, on its front page, printed the headline, "Richard Dawkins: I will arrest Pope Benedict XVI." This conjures up – as was doubtless intended – a ludicrous image of me ambushing the pontiff with a pair of handcuffs and marching him off in a half Nelson. Blood out of a stone, but I finally managed to persuade that Murdoch paper to change the headline in the online edition.
Never mind headlines invented by foolish sub-editors, we are serious. It should be for a court to decide – a civil court, not a whitewashing ecclesiastical court – whether the case against Ratzinger is as damning as it looks. If he is innocent, let him have the opportunity to demonstrate it in court. If he is guilty, let him face justice. Just like anybody else".
I have to quote one of the 625 comments so far.. From the Times Online... Which has some real sense and meaning to it...
ReplyDeleteSarf of the River wrote:
My very best wishes to Richard Dawkins. I will be more than happy to contribute to a fighting fund.
I was abused at a prep school in the mid to late 70's. It wasn't a religious school however abuse is non-denominational.
That child rape and abuse is still condoned by the Catholic church is abhorrent.
If I could identify my abuser I would probably kill him. Maybe that is what authorities and the Church are afraid of.
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Well said, Sarf of the river...
"abuse and child rape is non-denominational".
This is what the vatican cannot get their head around... Never mind about the reputation of the church... Deal with the crime of rape of children and start getting the perpetrators arrested now! And then start the recovery/repair, counselling, compensation to the victims.
Response from Richard Dawkins from the 11th April edition of the "Times online"...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7094310.ece
Taken from The Guardian...April 13th 2010.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/apr/13/pope-prosecution-dawkins
"Unfortunately I must end in bathos, with a necessary correction of a damaging error in another newspaper. The Sunday Times of 11 April, on its front page, printed the headline, "Richard Dawkins: I will arrest Pope Benedict XVI." This conjures up – as was doubtless intended – a ludicrous image of me ambushing the pontiff with a pair of handcuffs and marching him off in a half Nelson. Blood out of a stone, but I finally managed to persuade that Murdoch paper to change the headline in the online edition.
Never mind headlines invented by foolish sub-editors, we are serious. It should be for a court to decide – a civil court, not a whitewashing ecclesiastical court – whether the case against Ratzinger is as damning as it looks. If he is innocent, let him have the opportunity to demonstrate it in court. If he is guilty, let him face justice. Just like anybody else".