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Catholic Backlash Leads To Vandalism
April 14, 2010 by Brandon 5 Comments
There seems to be a growing backlash against the Catholic Church, and more specifically, Pope Benedict, as their pedophile sex-abuse scandal continues to wither the public’s faith in them.
Yesterday, Pope Benedict’s birthplace in Marktl am Inn, was vandalized with spray painted obscenities referring to the scandal. The building was recently converted into a museum to honor the Pope. Authorities have since painted over the text, and unfortunately I’ve been unable to find exactly what was written.
Now obviously I have no idea if this was done by a Catholic, and odds are it wasn’t, but I think it’s a perfect demonstration of what I’ve been saying; the Catholic church needs to admit to their wrong doing, launch an investigation with full cooperation with the authorities, and Ratsinger needs to, at the very least, step down as Pope. There is no other way that the Church is going to gain forgiveness in the public’s eye over this.
It’s extremely unlikely that any of these things will occur, because the Church is in far too deep at this point. Instead, they’ll just keep blaming who ever or whatever they can, from the devil and Jews, to the media and homosexuals. Next thing you know, they’ll be blaming Obama.
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The church really likes playing that homo card. Hurricanes, Kiddie Diddelin, Earthquakes…
My theory is that Obama’s Pinko-Liberal-Commie-Kenyan-Jebus Hate’n-Nuclear Surrenderin’-Socialist-Marxist™ Health Care that caused this!
Whoa there Gunsandsuch, don\’t lump Catholics in with the American religious right.
So they protect pedophiles, started a half-dozen crusades that killed hundreds of thousands of people, failed to take a stand against the Nazis, and ran the Spanish Inquisition, but they are in no way as bad as Pat Robertson.
Oh, look at that. Gunsandsuch figured out how to italicize text.
And I agree whole heartedly, Mr. O.
I fail to see how this is “a perfect demonstration of what [you]‘ve been saying”. Yes, the Pope’s home town was vandalized in response to the current scandal. Yes, the Catholic Church needs to do some things it has so far failed to do, possibly including the resignation of the Pope. (The latter is a matter of opinion, not fact, but I share your opinion.) But how does the former imply the latter?
Assume John Doe is a controversial public leader of whom you strongly approve (pick one). Suppose John Doe’s birthplace has been vandalized in response to the controversy. Does this imply that John Doe should resign? Certainly not; it merely implies that there’s a controversy and that the backlash has led at least one person to commit vandalism.
The fact alone that his home was vandalized isn’t why I’m saying he should resign; I’m saying that the vandalism is a manifestation of the resentment against the Church, resentment directed at a scandalous issue that at every turn the Church tries to either deny or redirect their guilt and involvement in.
The growing amount of evidence specifically against the Pope’s direct involvement and administrative inaction in the issue is the reason he should resign. And he should resign in order to save the Church he’s supposed to love from the growing backlash.