The word according to Holy Joe, the former Pope Benedict XVI, is that social change in the sixties created the cancer of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church. The ex-Vicar of Christ cites, among other things, “the clothing of that time” leading to “mental collapse” and “violence”. So there it is. The Church’s undoing is all down to miniskirts and loon pants – not the secrecy, the silence, the denials, the collusion or the arrogant belief that the Holy See is above the law. No, Joe, priestly kiddie fiddling and other clerical abuses were rife long before the sixties. It’s just that in a more enlightened, less deferential age, people aren’t willing to put up with it. The Catholic Church is not uniquely guilty of these sins, but it is guilty nonetheless. And that’s why the pews are empty come Sunday.
Holy Joe went on to preach that “the death of God in a society” means “the end of freedom”. The end of whose freedom, I wonder? Certainly not mine. It’s not religion per se that bothers me. I’ve no beef with faith as long as it’s not used to demonise others. No, it’s the corrosive stench of hypocrisy that hangs over it that I find offensive. God save us all from the bigots in the pulpit. And don’t get me started on the hangers, floggers and stoners out there.
Perking the Pansies 
I couldn’t agree more!
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. . so, when did those of ‘faith’ ever listen to the voice of reason or truth or fact?
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Amen to that but I am a great believer in live and let live (or live and let die as they might say in some quarters).
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You’ve got it right, Jack.
I don’t do church. Kind of gave up on it more than sixty years ago. But I understand kindness, morality, and legality, something too many “good Christians” are not even dimly aware of. My volunteer work has been ongoing for many years. I’ve been told many times that I do more than most religious people. And that’s true.
It doesn’t take religion to be a decent human being.
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Totally with you on that one! 😀
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What an idiot. Maybe Pope Francis will set him straight. 😉
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How disgusting. I couldn’t believe the blame had been cast on me, a Peace child of the sixties and seventies. Peace does NOT include molestation, Joe!!
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Absolutely. The silly old fool is deluded. There’s a lot of it about, sadly.
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