I'll let this one speak for itself:
Ireland was the first in Europe to confront the church's worldwide custom of shielding pedophile priests from the law and public scandal. Now that legacy of suppressed childhood horror is being confronted in other parts of the Continent — nowhere more poignantly than in Germany, the homeland of Pope Benedict XVI.
The recent spread of claims into the Netherlands, Austria and Italy has analysts and churchmen wondering how deep the scandal runs, which nation will be touched next, and whether a tide of lawsuits will force European dioceses to declare bankruptcy like their American cousins.
"You have to presume that the cover-up of abuse exists everywhere, to one extent or another. A new case could appear in a new country tomorrow," said David Quinn, director of a Christian think tank, the Iona Institute, that seeks to promote family values in an Ireland increasingly cool to Catholicism.
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Religion is the polite word for a state sanctioned cult.
While the majority of devout people are good people whose faiths provide them with a moral framework few are, as Edward Abbey said, "worthy of their congregations".
The crimes of the Roman Church, Protestant Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, pagan cults, modern cults, none can be excused. Hell, I'll throw blind faith in science in the roll call.
Too many people try to suppress their dark impulses with faith. Doesn't work, does it?
You dig Mission of Burma, right Chris?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad4n8Vayuqs
Sez it all.
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