The Gin Soaked Poppinjay

[scotsboy]

.................gets it right once again:

http://www.slate.com/id/2248557/

[northener]

I'd say it's a fine example of the Church showing it's belief that it should answer to no-one but itself.

Nice to see they haven't moved on much since the days of Torquemada......

[scotsboy]

I would have thought that those who felt so strongly about child abuse in other threads would have contributed, wonder why not?

Sticking with the Catholic Church do you think Tony Blair converted to Roman Catholicism so that he could get someone to absolve his sins?

[northener]

I would have thought that those who felt so strongly about child abuse in other threads would have contributed, wonder why not?

Sticking with the Catholic Church do you think Tony Blair converted to Roman Catholicism so that he could get someone to absolve his sins?

Institutional fear of the Church through being indoctrinated from a young age to believe that the Church is purity and is above reproach at all times?

[The Drunken Duck]

The truth about the Catholic Church is plain to see if you look hard enough ..

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/179/knpopewideweb470x3670.jpg

And ..

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/6262/emperori.jpg

Thats the same person !!

[bekisman]

"Invariably and without exception, they inform me that without a belief in supernatural authority I would have no basis for my morality."

Ah, Christopher Hitchens!, liked his book; God is not great.. he writes sense, I respect him.

Incidentally for those interested he's 'done' waterboarding. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/02/humanrights.usa (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/02/humanrights.usa)