We have all heard the stories of pedophilia among some in the church…..and there has been a wealth of jokes along those lines as well…..but I have heard few within the church really address this crime……
Read this and comment….please I would like to everyone’s opinion.
Demoted Catholic cardinal blames “feminized” church for priest pedophilia – Salon.com.
We hear the religious jerk wads railing against one religion or another…..Muslim on Christians, Jews on Muslims, Christians on other Christains….they call they names and some even incite violence toward other religions…….and through all this bullsh*t there is one shining light…..and that light is the sereneness of Buddhism……a religion that teaches inner peace and love…….a religion that I could depend on to be above the typical religious crap……
My day went straight to Hell after reading an article in the UK’s The Guardian………
His name is Wirathu, he calls himself the “Burmese Bin Laden” and he is a Buddhist monk who is stoking religious hatred across Burma.
The saffron-robed 45-year-old regularly shares his hate-filled rants through DVD and social media, in which he warns against Muslims who “target innocent young Burmese girls and rape them”, and “indulge in cronyism”.
To ears untrained in the Burmese language, his sermons seem steady and calm – almost trance-like – with Wirathu rocking back and forth, eyes downcast. Translate his softly spoken words, however, and it becomes clear how his paranoia and fear, muddled with racist stereotypes and unfounded rumours, have helped to incite violence and spread misinformation in a nation still stumbling towards democracy.
“We are being raped in every town, being sexually harassed in every town, being ganged up on and bullied in every town,” Wirathu recently told the Guardian, speaking from the Masoeyein monastery in Mandalay where he is based.
“In every town, there is a crude and savage Muslim majority.”
Wirathu says part of his concern with Islam is that Buddhist women have been converted by force and then killed for failing to follow Islamic rules. He also believes the halal way of killing cattle “allows familiarity with blood and could escalate to the level where it threatens world peace”.
Wirathu openly blames Muslims for instigating the recent violence. A minority population that makes up just 5% of the nation’s total, Wirathu says Burma’s Muslims are being financed by Middle Eastern forces: “The local Muslims are crude and savage because the extremists are pulling the strings, providing them with financial, military and technical power,” he said.
Analysts warn that Wirathu’s seeming freedom to preach as he pleases – in addition to his influence over other monks, who have also started preaching against Islam – should be taken as a wake-up call to the rest of the world. “If a similar hate movement like Burma’s ‘969’ movement – which spreads hate speech and hate symbols – [existed] specifically against, say, the Jews in Europe, no European government would tolerate it,” Burmese activist and London School of Economics visiting fellow Maung Zarni said.
In a chilling sermon last month, Wirathu warned that the “population explosion” of Burma’s Muslims could mean only one thing: “They will capture our country in the end.”
And just like his namesake, this “Burmese Bin Laden” made a brazen call to arms: “Once we [have] won this battle, we will move on to other Muslim targets.”
Of all the world’s religions I thought Buddhism was above this sort of thing…..I guess there is NO religion that is above these petty little issues….but this from a Buddhist monk?
It seems that the Vatican just cannot keep its nose clean from one year to the next…..it was part of the Nazi conspiracy in the 40’s and then came the sexual abuses of the last several decades and then there was the gay porn thing from last year….where several of the Pope’s personal choir was engaging in a gay escort business…..and just when you thought you had heard it all about the Vatican…there comes a story like this….
Italian authorities seized euro23 million ($30.18 million) from a Vatican bank account Tuesday and said they have begun investigating top officials of the Vatican bank in connection with a money laundering probe.
In Tuesday’s case, police seized the money from a Vatican bank account at the Rome branch of Credito Artigiano Spa, according to news agencies ANSA and Apcom. The bulk of the money, euro20 million ($26.2 million), was destined for JP Morgan in Frankfurt, with the remainder going to Banca del Fucino.
According to the reports, the Vatican bank had neglected to communicate to financial authorities where the money had come from. The reports stressed that Gotti Tedeschi wasn’t being investigated for laundering money himself but for a series of alleged omissions in financial transactions.
The Vatican bank, located in a tower just inside the gates of Vatican City, isn’t a typical bank. Its stated mission is to manage assets placed in its care that are destined for religious works or works of charity. But it also manages ATMs inside Vatican City and the pension system for the Vatican’s thousands of employees.
The bank is not open to the public. Depositors are usually limited to Vatican employees, religious orders and people who transfer money for the pope’s charities.
The Pope wears Prada and blesses new Ferraris….seems it is just an extension of the greed and avarice that is consuming the rest of the financial world….go figure…
“One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.”
Robert A. Heinlein
The hits just keep coming….if seems that politicians and others cannot go very long without showing their arrogance and saying so anal it just begs to be pointed out…..
In my anger with the religious BS coming out of the Vatican, I almost forgot to add the Pope to the most anal of statements….I will rectify that here…..
Recently, when the story broke about the priest in Wisconsin that had molested at least 200 deaf boys at a school for the deaf, the Pope handled all the outrage at the act and the handling of ALL molestation charges leveled at others in the church, by saying:
he would not “be intimidated by … petty gossip”.
Petty gossip? I covered this situation in some detail yesterday here on Info Ink……check it out….and give your opinion…..
When will the American people start demanding that these sexual predators start being treated like the degenerate toads they are? I have NO use for any organization that allows this type of behavior within their ranks….and that includes any church that does!
That is right I have said it and so did the Pope….you know that German in white and the funny hat?
Pope Benedict today risked inflaming opinion as he appeared to round on critics of the Catholic church over the widening sexual abuse scandal, saying he would not “be intimidated by … petty gossip”.
And……….
In the face of one of the gravest scandals in the Catholic church’s recent history, the Vatican has chosen to attack the media for what it called an “ignoble attempt” to smear Pope Benedict and his top advisers “at any cost”.
First, it is ALL the fault of the media for reporting this “petty gossip”…..I would bet it is those damn “liberals” in the media that is trying to whack the Pope…..
Let me see there has been sexual abuse charges in LA, Boston, etc and Ireland and a gay prostitution ring run out of the Vatican proper and then there is that priest that violated about 200 deaf kids in Wisconsin….and it is all “PETTY GOSSIP” to the Pope….what a PRICK!
I have heard some say that as Christian it is up to us to forgive transgressions…….WAIT Just A Damn minute! How many of those same Christians are lining up to forgive other sexual predators? What a crock of crap!
These priests should be in prison and let the guys there handle them like they did Jeffrey Dahmer….and since nothing happens without the knowledge or approval of the Vatican…then they all need to be in prison as accessories to9 the crime of sexual predation…..and yes that means his royal highness, Pope Benedict the….whatever number it is……
If this is what “organized” religion is all about then I am pleased with my decision to be a Deist……..every year religion takes a black eye from these sort of scandals and yet it is embraced as the way…….apparently the intellect plays NO part in their decision…..
I just had to make it official that Robertson got a nod for his most anal of statements……
It is early in the new year and already the motor mouths cannot stop themselves from saying dumbass sh*t…
This one is from the 700 Club’s Pat Robertson:
“And you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French, you know, Napoleon the Third and whatever, and they got together and swore a pact tothe devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you’ll get us free from the French.’ True story. And so the devil said, ‘O.K., it’s a deal.’ “
The theory that Haiti is a nation built on a pact with the devil has circulated on a number of websites, each tracing back to an apocryphal tale of Haitian voodoo priests sacrificing a pig and drinking its blood in 1791 in order to secure Satan’s aid in expelling the French occupation. In return, the priests are said to have promised Haiti to Satan for the next 200 years. The French were soon beat back, and in 1804, Haiti became an independent nation. But even if you believe the story (something many historians doubt), Satan’s lease on the tiny island nation should have expired in 1991.
This person is an idiot and if I could I would immediately give him the Assie Award….it will be hard to find another person this f*cking stupid!
Just when you had thought that idiots had run their course with moronic statements….BAM!……up pops yet another anal statement that needs to be brought to everyone’s attention.
This one is from a Southern Baptist preacher from Buena Park in California.
On a conservative talk radio show when asked:
“You would like for the president of the United States to die?”
To which Rev. Wylie Drake answered:
“If he does not turn to God and does not turn his life around, I am asking God to enforce imprecatory prayers that are throughout the Scripture that would cause him death, that’s correct.”
Is this the type of thinking that you would want from your religious leader?
Many of the South American presidents screw all their people, but there is one that prefers only the female ones. After all it is Sexy Sunday!
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo says he will not resign over claims by three women that he fathered children with them while he was a Catholic priest.
Mr Lugo came to power last August, ousting the right-wing Colorado party that had governed Paraguay for six decades.
The Pope only released him from his vows of chastity last July, two years after Mr Lugo renounced the priesthood.
This month, three women have come forward claiming that the former Roman Catholic bishop is the father of their children.
Mr Lugo, 57, acknowledges a two-year-old boy born to a former parishioner as his own, but has not commented on the paternity of the others, a 14-month-old boy and a 6-year-old boy.
Calling the cases “private” during the news conference, he told journalists he could not keep answering questions without neglecting his duties as president.
He said he would leave the matter in the hands of the justice system.
A Paraguayan bishop, Rogelio Livieres, had called for Mr Lugo to resign.
On Friday, a senator from a party currently aligned with Mr Lugo’s also urged him to step down.
Fertile little devil, ain’t he?
The Pope has been known to say stuff without much thought, he has pissed off a whole religion in the past, he wears Prada shoes and blesses Ferraris, but other than that everything is pretty much the same within the confines of the Vatican walls.
A great anal statement comes from many places–even the Pope can spout crap. This statement came while the Pope was speaking during his tour of Africa:
“placing a bible over an erect penis before intercourse is the only guaranteed way to prevent the spread of Aids.”
He may be right in his assumption but I do believe he could have worded it a little bit better.
Israeli police have had to restore order at one of Christianity’s holiest sites after a mass brawl broke out between monks in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Fighting erupted between Greek Orthodox and Armenian monks at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional site of Christ’s crucifixion.
Two monks from each side were detained as dozens of worshippers traded kicks and punches at the shrine, said police.
Trouble flared as Armenians prepared to mark the annual Feast of the Cross.
Shocked pilgrims looked on as decorations and tapestries were toppled during Sunday’s clash.
Dressed in the vestments of the Greek Orthodox and Armenian denominations, rival monks threw punches and anything they could lay their hands on.
The Greeks blamed the Armenians for not recognising their rights inside the holy site, while the Armenians said the Greeks had violated one of their traditional ceremonies.
An Armenian clergyman said the Greek clergy had tried to place one of their monks inside the Edicule, an ancient structure which is said to encase the tomb of Jesus.
“What is happening here is a violation of status quo. The Greeks have tried so many times to put their monk inside the tomb but they don’t have the right to when the Armenians are celebrating the feast,” he said.
The Armenians had been preparing to commemorate the 4th Century discovery of the cross believed to have been used to crucify Jesus.
A Greek clergyman said: “We protested peacefully, we stood here in the middle and we claimed that we shall not leave the procession finished unless they leave our guardian be inside. This didn’t happen and in that moment the police interfered.”
Six Christian sects share control of the ancient church and the BBC’s Wyre Davies in Jerusalem says confrontations between them are not uncommon, but rarely descend into violence.
And you only thought the Muslims were the silly ones for fighting each other.