Journal #7440

Posted 12 years ago2011-10-17 22:51:43 UTC
38_98 38_98Lord
Apparently, there was a BBC documentary which revealed that the Catholic Church has been illegally trafficking newly-born babies. Why? Because they believed their mothers were unfit to have them. According to the documentary, they stole at least 300,000 of them and sold them on for profit via adoptions, no less.

The very fact that the Pope has not been struck by lighting over 9000 times and the Vatican swallowed whole by the Earth is proof that god doesn't exist, In my opinion.

12 Comments

Commented 12 years ago2011-10-17 23:05:46 UTC Comment #51383
The doc airs tonight at 9pm BST if anyone's interested. Dunno if the iPlayer works for you internationals.

Surely this is no worse than catholic priests sexually assaulting little boys, the picketing of soldier's funerals or the evangelical indoctrination of children too young to know better at Jesus camps, though?
I find myself unable to be surprised by the incredibly disgusting acts committed in the name of God anymore.
Commented 12 years ago2011-10-17 23:13:55 UTC Comment #51386
It's not so much the fact that it's worse as it is the fact the, when you think they can't get any lower, they manage to blow away all expectations by sinking lower yet again.
Commented 12 years ago2011-10-17 23:21:43 UTC Comment #51393
Maybe somebody should deem them 'unfit to live' and do something about it.
Commented 12 years ago2011-10-17 23:26:11 UTC Comment #51384
Heh, fair shout 38_98.

Because I live in a society with extreme sectarianism (Glasgow has some pretty heavy history with Protestants and Catholics - anyone from Ireland will know what I'm talking about because their history is very similar) I see the absolute worst that allegiance to Christianity has to offer. Either visiting a friend in hospital who was stabbed with a broken bottle in the crowd of an old-firm (catholic vs protestant, basically) football game or seeing mosques get vandalised and burned because they believe in something different. Ach, it just makes me not give a fuck about the scandals of the church, because I see it on a daily basis.

This is upsetting, but informative. A documentary from about 7 years ago regarding old-firm violence. Football games used by christians as an excuse to brutally injure or murder other christians, because half are protestant and half are catholic.
Commented 12 years ago2011-10-17 23:51:18 UTC Comment #51390
When stuff like this happens, it makes me feel bad to know I can be associated with these people due to my beliefs. Which is why I stopped going to church.
Religious nuts are like any other form of nuts, except they use God to justify their wrong actions, as if saying "God wants us to [immoral action]" makes it true.
Case in point: The Crusades, compared to the part in the Bible that says "Thou shalt not kill"
Commented 12 years ago2011-10-18 01:04:51 UTC Comment #51394
"Thou shalt not kill... Unless the person in question doesn't believe in Insert religion, in which case go ahead and rip his spleen out and let him bleed to death, perfectly okay."
Commented 12 years ago2011-10-18 02:05:12 UTC Comment #51385
I hate religion.
This is but one of the reasons.
I don't preach my hate, i keep it to myself. Unless a discussion such as this comes along...
Commented 12 years ago2011-10-18 07:17:51 UTC Comment #51387
If I hate religion, it's because it is capable of giving immoral actions justification, at least to the doer.
I'm sure a hell of a lot more crimes have been commited "in the name of a God" than there has been because "there is no god".

But we all know how these discussions end.
Commented 12 years ago2011-10-18 09:05:15 UTC Comment #51389
Religious or anti-religious, I think what matters the most is respect for fellow humans (and other animals) and non-violence. I am yet to see proof of anything good stemming from hatred.
Commented 12 years ago2011-10-18 20:41:47 UTC Comment #51392
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Commented 12 years ago2011-10-18 20:57:35 UTC Comment #51388
[Nevermind.]
Commented 12 years ago2011-10-19 06:43:16 UTC Comment #51391
you're all scarring dimbark for life.

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