And There’s a Story in a Book About It
The Rude Pundit adds two entries to the internet’s seemingly endless list of resentful counterfactuals, but there’s a sting in the tail of the first one:
What if investigation after investigation discovered that the Muslim church had engaged in a decades-long cover-up of massive criminal activity involving the molestation and raping of children?
What’s funny about this is, “Muhammad was a child molester!” is a real shibboleth of the Islamophobe Right. America’s Christian conservatives are capable of at least bitching about the woody stuffs in their brother’s eye, regardless of any lumber cluttering up their own.
Comment by Thoreau —
March 26, 2010 @ 11:55 pm
I now that Nita Mccluer’s comment is classic spambot material, but the site sells incense and lubricants, and I think that’s appropriate for a thread about Catholic priests.
So, congratulations to the spambot for being unwittingly on-topic.
Comment by Jim Henley —
March 27, 2010 @ 12:14 am
Snarf. Should’ve left the comment and just deleted the URL so there would be context for your amusing jape.
Comment by Thoreau —
March 27, 2010 @ 1:17 am
On a more serious note, I remember reading a few years ago about sex abuse scandals in Pakistani religious schools.
Comment by David Ehrenstein —
March 29, 2010 @ 8:39 am
Here’s Ross Asshat’s latest in the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/opinion/29douthat.html?ref=opinion
He blames the 70’s
In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny “Oh Prunella!”
Comment by Phoenix Woman —
March 29, 2010 @ 8:48 am
“He blames the ’70s”.
As opposed to being obsessed with driving good, humane, intelligent guys like Hans Kung and Jacques Gaillot into virtual exile (keeping just enough of an official connection to avoid making martyrs of them) during a worldwide priest shortage. (Said shortage being the #1 de facto excuse for not defrocking pedo priests.)
Comment by AuldBlackJack —
March 29, 2010 @ 9:57 am
“He blames the ’70s”
Really? A few months back he was blaming the problem in Ireland on the fact that it was filled with the Irish.
http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/the-tragedy-of-irish-catholicism/
Make up your mind Douthat.
Comment by Jim Henley —
March 29, 2010 @ 10:33 am
Really, AuldBlackJack: Are you trying to say Ireland wasn’t full of Irish people in the 70s? I daresay it was!
Comment by Eric the .5b —
March 29, 2010 @ 10:46 am
Meh. Many Red bible-thumbers barely acknowledge Catholics as Christians.
Comment by David Aquarius —
March 29, 2010 @ 11:09 am
The Catholic Church takes a hundred years to progress a mere 10 years. This means it will be well into 2020 before it arrives at the 19th Century.
The Church is ancient, infirm and senile – much like its Pope. Pope Benedict XVI was once prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith or the Inquisition. What else do we need to know about him?