Atheist Reason Rally Is 'Invasion,' of 'Good for Nothing' People, Says Catholic League Pres.

[trotsky]

http://www.christianpost.com/news/atheist-reason-rally-nations-capital-invasion-good-for-nothing-people-catholic-league-164779/

As organizers for the atheist Reason Rally boast that 30,000 secularists will be at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on Saturday, Catholic League President Bill Donohue has slammed the event, calling it an "invasion."

"They stand for nothing, believe in nothing, and many are good for nothing. Organized atheists are set to invade D.C. this weekend, holding a 'Reason Rally.' The reason they are rallying is their professed belief in nothingness," Donohue wrote about the event.

CNN reports that speakers at the rally are expected to include Bill Nye, Lewis Black and members of the Wu-Tang Clan, which will also feature musical guests and entertainment late into the night.

"We want to see reason taking precedence over religious-driven ideology," said the rally's Executive Director Lyz Liddell.

Looks like the Reason Rally is pissing off all the right assholes! Ken Ham, Ray Comfort, and now Bigoted Bill Donohue.

[nichomachus]

1. As long as people realize the Catholic League is a phony group

It's really just this Donohue blowhard, and for some reason, the media treat him as if he had any kind of standing.

It's the same as if I named myself president of the Democratic League and got myself put on all the talk shows.

[trotsky]

3. Phony?

https://www.catholicleague.org/about-us/

“…I appreciate Dr. Donohue and the work done by The Catholic League. I look forward to the day when the work done by the Catholic League is no longer necessary. Sadly, as recent events have proven once again, that day still seems far in the future.”

— Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York

“The Catholic League has the courage to speak up candidly and forcefully for the Church when circumstances call for fighting the good fight. The League should be on every Catholic’s short list of essential organizations to support.”

— Most Rev. Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
Archbishop of Philadelphia

“I am privileged to support the Catholic League. The work of the Catholic League is invaluable and its accomplishments over the years are unparalleled.”

— Cardinal Edwin O’Brien
Pro-Grand Master of the Equestrian Order (Knights) of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

“The Catholic League has done much to ensure that the Church’s positions are presented clearly and fairly. Too often those who do not understand the Church or Her teachings are the interpreters of the doctrines and events in the life of the Church. The work of the League is important in the mission of the Church which must teach the hard truths of the Gospel in season and out of season.”

— Seán Cardinal O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap.
Archbishop of Boston

“We are seeing the most violent attack on the Catholic Church in the media and public life since the days of the Ku Klux Klan. Every serious and committed Catholic needs to know what is going on and what to do about it. I consider membership in the Catholic League a must.”

— Father Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R.

They've got some pretty impressive friends in high places for being "phony."

[AtheistCrusader]

7. Damn, you got owned.

How's that feeble deflection working out for you?

[edhopper]

8. He speaks with the full support of the Church

and it's hierarchy.

As for the "faithful" he cares about them as much as the Church leaders do, which is minimally.

[LiberalLovinLug]

14. These atheists probably share more beliefs than he does with the Pope

How does that work? Wouldn't he be some kind of apostate for working against his own Popes edicts?

[edhopper]

16. What beliefs doesn't he share with the Pope?

The anti-Gay, anti-birth control Pope? The Pope that still has pedophile enablers and protectors in his top ranks?

His beliefs fall right in line with the Vatican, that's why they support him.

[LiberalLovinLug]

22. Issues like immigration, climate change, and income inequality

and he's probably also to the left of Dr. Donohue on gay rights as he has indicated a willingness to look at civil union at least.

He probably also shared Pope John Paul II's abhorrence of the Iraq War and all unnecessary wars of aggression.

[Brettongarcia]

29. Well, Bill Donahue IS divorced...

So he's a hypocritical sinner or failure at the least

[skepticscott]

12. The Catholic League has hundreds of thousands of members

a board of directors and a multi-million dollar budget.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_League_(U.S.)

http://www.catholicleague.org

You could have discovered all of this with a thirty second Google search (assuming you didn't already know it), but instead chose to perpetuate the apologist lie that the "Catholic League" is just Bill Donohue and a fax machine somewhere. Why is that?

[struggle4progress]

19. So they said in 1999

[skepticscott]

24. Their board of directors, membership

and finances are matters of public record, as a tax exempt organization.

Feel free to run one of your obsessive Google-fu searches to make your case that this is a one-man operation. Unless of course that's not your case, and your post is just a meaningless deflection.

[struggle4progress]

25. Your Wikipedia link says the League's "1999 estimate is the last statement about overall membership

that the League has made"

[skepticscott]

28. Is that the best you can do?

When it suits you, you're capable of generating pages of irrelevant google-fu from the most obscure sources to try to make a fake argument. So why are you struggling with it now, dude?

Come on...dazzle us. Prove that the Catholic League is just Bill Donohue.

[skepticscott]

2. Apparently their lame faith is as threatened by even a hint of non-belief

as the sad-ass atheist basher(s) in Religion.

[katsy]

5. Yeah good for nothings

unlike pedophile Catholic priests & their enabler bishops who lobby to change child abuse laws and pivot these vile priests to different congregations so they can continue this pattern of abuse.

Yeah well this fukwits opinion is garbage as are his morals.

[struggle4progress]

6. Donohue is a bitter-sounding little man

[Hoppy]

17. Yeah? Well wait 'till MythGod bites your ass. You'll be sorry.

Yes, Martha, its sarcasm.

[rug]

20. Like many of the comments in this thread.

Bitter.

Tsk.

[Cartoonist]

9. I didn't know that

Too often those who do not understand the Church or Her teachings are the interpreters of the doctrines and events in the life of the Church.

Her? Is that a misprint?

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. 'The Church' is frequently personified as a woman

That allows Jesus to 'marry' it, and be its 'head' that orders it how to live, in patriarchal terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_of_Christ#Comparing_the_church_to_a_bride

[MisterP]

10. Donohue: *says something* Catholics: *shrug*

[Warpy]

26. Yeah, the conservative princes of the church might love him

but ordinary Catholics make sure they've got plenty of birth control options around and the majority are still pro choice, making them the only sensible people in the church.

[OnyxCollie]

11. Be sure to tithe!

The Catholic church needs to continue paying off the victims of pedophile priests.

[struggle4progress]

18. The Catholic League is a private organization

[valerief]

15. To the faithful, reason is nothing. Shit. Thank god (I say sarcastically) I'm an atheist. nt

[keithbvadu2]

21. "Her teachings" he says.

The Catholic Church had two options for following "Her teachings".

Protect the child molesting priests.

Protect the children.

The children lost.

[no_hypocrisy]

23. Well, that really hurts my feelings.

[Warpy]

27. Nobody likes a common scold, Bill.

Sour religious killjoys bucking for sainthood are the most unpleasant people on the planet.