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The Sand Reckoner
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March 24, 2017
JPR certainly was
And the assholes who flocked there didn't even realize it, they were so determined to hate Clinton at any cost.
March 20, 2017
Pope Francis Tells Priests to Have Exorcists on Call
Seriously? In this day and age? How can someone who pretends to be intelligent promote such dangerous ignorance and nonsense?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/19/pope-francis-tells-priests-to-have-exorcists-on-call.html
March 9, 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/07/catholic-church-children-buried-at-tuam-ireland?CMP=fb_gu
The Catholic church is shocked at the hundreds of children buried at Tuam. Really?
So you will forgive me if I am sceptical of the professed shock of Irelands clergy, politicians and official inquiring bodies. We know too much about the Catholic churchs abuse of women and children to be shocked by Tuam. A mass grave full of the children of unmarried mothers is an embarrassing landmark when the state is still paying the church to run its schools and hospitals. Hundreds of dead babies are not an asset to those invested in the myth of an abortion-free Ireland; they inconveniently suggest that Catholic Ireland always had abortions, just very late-term ones, administered slowly by nuns after the children were already born.
As Ireland gears up for a probable referendum on abortion rights as well as a strategically planned visit from the pope, it may be time to stop acting as though the moral bankruptcy and hypocrisy of the Catholic church are news to us. You can say you dont care, but after the Ryan report, the Murphy report, the McAleese report, the Cloyne report, the Ferns report, the Raphoe report and now Tuam you dont get to pretend that you dont know.
As Ireland gears up for a probable referendum on abortion rights as well as a strategically planned visit from the pope, it may be time to stop acting as though the moral bankruptcy and hypocrisy of the Catholic church are news to us. You can say you dont care, but after the Ryan report, the Murphy report, the McAleese report, the Cloyne report, the Ferns report, the Raphoe report and now Tuam you dont get to pretend that you dont know.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/07/catholic-church-children-buried-at-tuam-ireland?CMP=fb_gu
March 8, 2017
She's just now tumbling to this? No wonder that nuns on the bus thingy went nowhere.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/catholic-nun-blasts-male-power-in-blunt-talk-at-the-vatican/
Catholic nun blasts male power in blunt talk at the Vatican
VATICAN CITY Catholic activist Sister Simone Campbell suggested senior clergy at the Vatican are more preoccupied with power than confronting issues that affect the faithful, like clerical sexual abuse.
The U.S. nun, leader of the Nuns on the Bus campaign that toured America during recent election cycles, spoke frankly in an interview ahead of a conference being held at the Vatican on Wednesday to celebrate womens contributions to peace.
The institution and the structure is frightened of change, Campbell told Religion News Service. These men worry more about the form and the institution than about real people.
The U.S. nun, leader of the Nuns on the Bus campaign that toured America during recent election cycles, spoke frankly in an interview ahead of a conference being held at the Vatican on Wednesday to celebrate womens contributions to peace.
The institution and the structure is frightened of change, Campbell told Religion News Service. These men worry more about the form and the institution than about real people.
She's just now tumbling to this? No wonder that nuns on the bus thingy went nowhere.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/catholic-nun-blasts-male-power-in-blunt-talk-at-the-vatican/
March 5, 2017
Just for the sake of balance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/europe/britain-mansion-child-abuse-archbishop-canterbury.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Dozens Say Christian Leader Made British Boys Bleed for Jesus
YORK, England Having disclosed his sin of masturbation, Mark Stibbe, age 17, was ordered to strip naked and lean over a wooden chair in the garden shed of a lavish Hampshire mansion on the southern coast of England.
Then came the first blow from a cane, its impact so ferocious that it sent the boy into a state of paralysis that lasted through at least 30 more strokes that left him collapsed on the floor, blood oozing down his legs.
I remember being so appalled by how vicious the first lash was that I couldnt scream, Mr. Stibbe, now 56 and an acclaimed Christian author, recalled on a recent afternoon in his Yorkshire home. Youre in this tiny shed full of canes with this man. I felt utterly powerless.
Until that day in the late 1970s, the man he says beat him, John Smyth, was known to Mr. Stibbe and his friends as a charismatic lawyer and influential evangelical Christian leader who regularly attended the Christian forum of their nearby boarding school, Winchester College, the oldest in Britain. Now, Mr. Smyth, 75 and keeping a low profile in South Africa, stands at the center of a widening scandal of sadistic abuse of dozens of boys over three decades that has ensnared the leader of the Anglican Church, the Most Rev. Justin Welby, archbishop of Canterbury, though only peripherally.
Then came the first blow from a cane, its impact so ferocious that it sent the boy into a state of paralysis that lasted through at least 30 more strokes that left him collapsed on the floor, blood oozing down his legs.
I remember being so appalled by how vicious the first lash was that I couldnt scream, Mr. Stibbe, now 56 and an acclaimed Christian author, recalled on a recent afternoon in his Yorkshire home. Youre in this tiny shed full of canes with this man. I felt utterly powerless.
Until that day in the late 1970s, the man he says beat him, John Smyth, was known to Mr. Stibbe and his friends as a charismatic lawyer and influential evangelical Christian leader who regularly attended the Christian forum of their nearby boarding school, Winchester College, the oldest in Britain. Now, Mr. Smyth, 75 and keeping a low profile in South Africa, stands at the center of a widening scandal of sadistic abuse of dozens of boys over three decades that has ensnared the leader of the Anglican Church, the Most Rev. Justin Welby, archbishop of Canterbury, though only peripherally.
Just for the sake of balance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/europe/britain-mansion-child-abuse-archbishop-canterbury.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
March 4, 2017
But of course, he and his organization condemn any form of artificial contraception as evil. So, he's basically saying, stop having sex after you've had 2 kids, or just use the old reliable rhythm method.
How can people be so fucking stupid?
Pope Urges Families to Have Fewer Kids to Make World More Sustainable
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/dbda428a-db88-31f6-b4e4-88bf2d93aff1/rpt%3A-pope-urges-families-to.htmlBut of course, he and his organization condemn any form of artificial contraception as evil. So, he's basically saying, stop having sex after you've had 2 kids, or just use the old reliable rhythm method.
How can people be so fucking stupid?
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