"Technology is evil, but raping children is totally ok," says Pope
Jake Farr-Wharton 14 comments
Every year at this time, anywhere from ten to over one hundred thousand adherents of the Catholic faith engulf Saint Peters Square at the Vatican City. They do this for two reasons; firstly, to commemorate Palm Sunday and the begging of the week of Easter and, secondly, to hear the Pope pontificate on the meaning of Easter. Hundreds of millions more Catholics watch the address on their TVs at home.
This year’s event was no disappointment with well over forty thousand people flocking to the immense courtyard on Sunday. The general address from the pope has remained mostly the same for many years, beginning with a prayer, then a sermon on what Catholics should be focusing on whilst eating chocolate and forgetting Jesus this year.
Considering the events of recent weeks and months, the Pope could have had his pick of topics to analogize and evangelize. Hell, he had Christians dying in Egypt, Iran and Pakistan; Christians being beaten and forced not to pray in public in China; wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Libya; citizens rising up to overthrow governments in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Bahrain; earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan; cyclones and floods in Australia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka; and closed to home, tens of thousands of cases of child molestation and rape at the hands of Catholic priests going to trial.
So, given all of this recent tragedy, unrest, upheaval and child molestation at the hands and penises of priests that he oversees, can you guess what he talked about?
“Technological advances are liberating and contribute to the progress of mankind only if they are joined to these attitudes. Mankind has managed to accomplish so many things: we can fly! We can see, hear and speak to one another from the farthest ends of the earth. Our possibilities for evil have increased and appear like menacing storms above history.”
Paraphrasing, “beware technology, it is evil”.
Profound shit, right?
No, not at all.
This is a time when the Pope should be acknowledging his personal role in both directly covering up the sexual abuse of children in diocese under his control, and then placing the offending priests to other churches where they went onto reoffend!
This is a time when the Pope should be visiting EVERY SINGLE PRIEST IN THE WORLD, personally, and demanding an end to the sexual abuse of children!
This is a time when the Pope should not be sitting in his gold leaf palace, adorned by jewellery, expensive robes and an obviously phallic point hat, while women and children are starving around the world! SELL THE VATICAN, FEED THE WORLD!
This is a time when the Vatican should be renouncing all statements made about contraception and endorsing the use of condoms to halt the spread of AIDS, HIV and other STIs are rampant throughout the third world!
This is a time when the Vatican should be encouraging Catholics to curb overpopulation and to use contraception, instead of encouraging them to multiply!
And yet, the most profound statement that the 1.1 billion Catholics alive today receive from this morally repugnant, child sex-abuse enabling, AIDS and HIV spreading piece of trash is; “technology is evil.”
Wow, perhaps Glenn Beck was right. Perhaps the apocalypse is just around the corner.
Jake is the author of Letters to Christian Leaders - Hollow be thy claims.
Henk V
Thursday 21st April 2011 | 08:00 AM
Gilly, small hint, just a tiny tiny small hint..when is any sort of israel recognised by someone in the time of the author calling himself "John of Patmos" going to exist again?
you see, from a person who never knew what israel was or could be and the cheap plagiarising of notions from the old testament that appears in revelation, we know one thing..Fraud of patmos made this up so long after his purported apocalypse that the only way to view it is to use it as "prophesying".
The fact tat he used the events of antiochus epiphanes to describe the events of somebody with the same plans of antiochus 4 in raw straight plagiarism should tell you something.
I got over jesus christ superstar the "rock opera" when I stopped working at the venue it was being played at in the seventies.
You didnt. Open that bible and do some research before parroting the "left behind" series and plagiarising the escapeallthesethings website. With a bit of back ground reading you will see the inherent fraud you are asked to bathe in!
I wonder who the beast is this week? Obama? justin beiber or the Taker?... come on Gilly, these morons you copy spray cant get one thing consistent. You'd think after the abject failures of the past ten years, they would get one thing right.
No the fallback position of all end time and nostradamians is the same, oops I meant this (I am sure you know what i mean guys, I wrote Obama but its gematria for princess adeline) or even more cynically...change the archives..
Pfft
Henk V
Thursday 21st April 2011 | 08:05 AMThats the problem with face value Jake..
This pope is ham strung by the inaction of his previous popes. I would say a peace treaty with some national socialists would be an only out.
Tell me when this fraud does another south american tour..or Syria...
Henk V
Thursday 21st April 2011 | 08:05 AMThats the problem with face value Jake..
This pope is ham strung by the inaction of his previous popes. I would say a peace treaty with some national socialists would be an only out.
Tell me when this fraud does another south american tour..or Syria...
Hey Dumbo
Thursday 21st April 2011 | 03:35 PMSorry for my ignorance Dumbo but are you saying that Israel wasnt Jewish before or are not Jewish now.
Thats a realy simple question so keep your Duimbo-esque rants minimal please Dumbo
Henk V
Thursday 21st April 2011 | 04:01 PMeasy, Israel was never Jewish.
at what time in history was it jewish?..Are you reading funny books again? Maybe you'll have to define an acceptable definition for "jewish" as at present you re very antisemitic in your prose.
PS, I dont know about rants, but you are the one who thought abraham was "jewish". You still haven't cleared that one up Hey Dumbo.
Henk V
Thursday 21st April 2011 | 04:22 PMIsrael is Israeli now. They make a great hullaballoo of telling you this when its convenient. They do not claim to be "israelite" by any definition.
Henk V
Thursday 21st April 2011 | 04:56 PMjust put in in a table with dates etc. Its quite easy..
ps, dont forget vassal states, occupations, strict terminology yada yada,
I'll give you a huge hint... greater Israel at the time of the supposed mythical Jesus was called ................. of ourse that was a vassal state as well... but at least you will start thinking.
Opening your bible wont help, by the way.. Just saving you the anguish of checking up with your failed mentors who saw a bible at church (once). But if you do want to go down the chroniclers score card, I'll be perfectly happy..
Hey Dumbo
Thursday 21st April 2011 | 05:01 PMOh gosh I incited another blithering Dumbo rant about his beliefs and other crap
*sigh* must not reply to ranters or simpletons *sigh*
Henk V
Thursday 21st April 2011 | 05:08 PM707 pm
I'd walk away Gilly because if the revelation of the supposed Bishop of Patmos (as opposed to the revelation of Bill or Francisco, Zorro or Bat Man) is correct by the estimation of end timers; there is a huge error, a monstrous gaping wound that the said Bishop missed if he was talking about now or not had redacted a very famous abomination into concurrent text.
The reliance on plagiarism of known biblical and gnostic texts were just a bit of a give away.
Still want to play?
I will assume that either you will have some semblance of a historical table if you think you are right and if I know you have given up (immediately), there will be another derogatory spray. Its a key indicator when you should just say.. "man I believe this to be true, its just hard to prove my faith".
Faith isnt so bad Gilly...
Mud 29 questions answered with insults by Gilly (you didnt know I was Mud?)
Marylin Hanson
Friday 22nd April 2011 | 04:30 AMOkay Muddie, enough is enough. This guy clearly has reality issues. He certainly has not read further than a menu at a fast food restaurant. He isn't that idiot Tyler and does not deserve to be humiliated on literary or historical grounds.
Gilly, we all believe in things. But we aren't all influenced by jaded rehashes. I would wager you are a top bloke. I'll try to stop my lesser triplet from disagreeing with your faith in public.
Mud, I do not blame Tyler from running away from you. Catching people in general discussion using facts and history is unfair. It's easy to see that is not the sort of assault they are used to.
Hey STUPID
Friday 22nd April 2011 | 07:17 AMYeah I changed it from Dumbo and now will just call you stupid
You know if the hat fits blah blah
Listen stupid what makes you think you got it right, you arrogant self effacing pharisee
Truth is STUPID I havnt seen you justify and commit to one solid statement, like a coward you skirt around issues and half answer questions, Now I wonder why
Because I will rip your words apart you pathetic petty little man.
Your best
What animal did Noahs sons eat on the ark
What tribe did my family come from
What utter stupid statements disguised as questions. You STUPID are a bumbling fool bluffing dummys with words
Yeah you STUPID are hiding behind big words to disguise your stupid baseless statements
Have a happy Pagan fertility celebration. I know you will celebrate baal with all your heart
Hey STUPID
Friday 22nd April 2011 | 02:51 PMHey Stupid you know why I call you a pharisee Stupid
Because STUPID you may have the knowledge of the book but havnt a clue about the compassion of the book STUPID
You are like one of the boastful arrogant pharisees of Christ's time STUPID
You puff yourself up and treat anyone else as underlings, and that makes you a pathetic pharisee, a religious arrogant look at how clever I am fool
I pity you HenkV, I really pity you boy.
I would hate myself if I had your knowledge (and its debatable you have any) and your nastiness, nastiness based on pure cowardice and insecurity, a true pharisee of these times.
You Henk are far more religious than I
ninjacrotch
Monday 2nd May 2011 | 08:33 AMHey stupid seems bitter. not chortling now?
Gilly
Wednesday 20th April 2011 | 09:16 PMYeah cool. I agree Jake
Repent, Christs return will be heralded by a 7 year peace treaty signed by Israel.
Its upon us
satans church is the catholic church