Richard Dawkins to Arrest the Pope.
 

For crimes against humanity, apparently:



http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle7094310.ece

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...e-benedict-xvi

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...-humanity.html

I actually want to hit him with something - perhaps a shoe shop - more than I do Cameron right now.

Except Dawkins never said he will arrest the Pope.

EDIT: Not defending Dawkins, he's too much of a Bertrandian cunt.

Take that up with the copy-editor at The Times.

I'm sure there are more than enough drone complaints scribbled in red ink, already.

Fan of Dawkins and Hitchens reporting for duty.

Dawkins and Hitchens are two of my favorite people.

Catholicism is the most hypocritical faith of them all.

In what way?

Need you ask?

They all are. But I did notice being raised full Catholic, that they teach you more about being a good Catholic than about god or Jesus. I did not read the full bible until I was an adult. I read it on my own accord and to my dismay discovered that half of the shit they were telling me is not even in the bible. Such as "the seven deadly sins" or the story of the angel falling from grace only to become the devil. I stopped going to "church".

That's sort of the point of Catholicism. It's the Protestants that believe in sola scriptura. Hence you get the idea of 'a Catholic taste', because they're not 'limited' (with apologies to any Protestants reading) to the book alone.

I just had problems with them telling me things that one man deducted from scripture was the only truth. It means different things to different readers.

This 'one truth' thing is odd - certainly Judaism doesn't come under the same sort of criticism. Quite why it's emphasised so much in modern Catholic practise (and by that I mean the last 2 centuries) is baffling when the interpretive literature paints a very different picture.

You are interesting. Sounds like you know yr shit well.

if it's that obvious, why mention it in the first place?

But surely you need some consensus otherwise each individual would have their own separate religion based on their own individual interpretation?

I do agree, we cannot just create our own interpretation of things. God is all about community, not excluding one another. I just don't like the myths that teh Catholic church has propelled. These myths perpetuate into society and media. To some one who has not read the bible it appears as if it is in there but it is not. Out of all the religious organizations I do still fall back on the Catholic roots. It is comfortable cause it is what I know. I will not limit myself to only Catholic thinking though. I am not quite sure they are correct about everything.

i am in no way way a christian, however the bible makes sense if you read inbetween the lines more than the majority of people do. i was raised catholic and was devout for a number of years... damn is that shit retarded. oh and by bible i really mean the new testament cause jesus is where it's at.