Friday, August 5, 2011

More Good News

Here's the post that goes along with the cartoon below. This is also from "Atheist Oasis". More on the Cloyne Report on this blog, some days ago. (Why is Vatican so miffed at reaction to Cloyne report?)

In any case - please follow link to original
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More Good News

I get such a kick out of the self-inflicted wounds that the Catholic Church has been giving itself. The Coyne report on Ireland’s Catholic Church evil deeds. Finally!!! A real look at and investigation into the heart of corruption.

DYSFUNCTIONAL. Disconnected. Elitist. Narcissistic. The leadership of the Roman Catholic Church downplayed the torture and rape of children or ”managed” it to uphold the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and reputation.

This damning indictment of the culture at the heart of the Vatican came not from a communist demagogue or a firebrand ayatollah but from Enda Kenny, the Prime Minister of Ireland, one of the most Catholic countries in the world.

The government has also warned the church it can no longer even consider the seal of the confessional to be sacrosanct, promising to impose a five-year jail sentence for anyone found guilty of not passing information on child sexual abuse to state authorities.

How good is that? Not even the confessional is safe. Hufuckinrah!!! It’s about time.
And how it is playing out in Ireland? Here’s this;

Unlike Ferriter, Paul Dunbar, 32, has decided not only to ignore the church but to leave it entirely. Dunbar is a founder of countmeout.ie, a website informing people how they can make a formal exit, an act that is surprisingly difficult and which accounts in part for the misleadingly high numbers of people ostensibly listed as Catholics.

“I had been lapsed for a few years, but when the reports on abuse came out I wanted to go a step further by repudiating any involvement with a church responsible for such scandals – being passive was no longer good enough for me,” he says. “The church leadership has clearly lost the plot.”

The rest of the article is here. I still am having a linkage problem so copy and paste if you will.
Read more:http://www.smh.com.au/world/last-rites-20110803-1ibft.html

Maybe we really will see the demise of religion in our lives.

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