Catholic Demonstrators Say News Coverage of Priest Abuse "Another Example of Liberal Media Bias"
New York (EAP)
Maureen Smith of Buffalo hasn't read the news or stayed informed of what has happened among the Catholic celrgy, nor does she plan to.
But she had heard that magazines such as Newsweek and Time, which contain articles about the current Catholic pedophile scandal, is anti-Catholic. That, she said, was enough for her to bring her 16-year-old son and his friend to a protest near the Barnes-and-Noble bookstore in New York City, New York.- one of many bookstores carrying the current edition ofNewsweek and Time. "I understand it's blasphemous," Conrad said. "I trust the people who have read it, and I believe it's insulting to all Christians."
Apparently so do about 30 other people who joined a peaceful demonstration organized by the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property -- a national organization of lay Catholics based in New York that has about 35,000 members.
The Catholic League and other groups had planned about 1000 demonstrations Friday at bookstores across the country.
Protesters held signs and prayed on their Rosaries as cars went past their spot on a grassy strip along 42nd Ave, more than 1,000 feet from the bookstore.
This is not the first time the Catholic League has used it clout against what they perceive as "evil" influence of the "liberal" media. The Catholic League, with more than 350,000 members, pressured the Walt Disney Co. and its subsidiary Miramax Films to drop "Dogma" about two and a half years ago.
"I'm hoping that when people read these articles, they'll say, 'Oh, it's not the articles that flips the bird at the church,'" an unnamed Time reporter said this month. "We are actually helping the church in doing what it should have done in the first place if it was more competent."
The articles do question some Catholic doctrine. Lanc Morrow, a Time columnist who happened to have gone to a Jesuit school in his youth, questioned the wisdom of priestly celibacy.
But what offended Robert Bitchie II, director of the Catholic group's America Needs Fatima campaign, was the fact that such dirty laundry was aired for all to see.
"Roman Catholicism must upheld, even by pedophile priests" said Bitchie II, of New York.
Tim Cooper, a sophomore at Notre Dame High School, was one of a dozen teen-agers who took part in the demonstration.
"All I know is that it's another blasphemous attempt by the liberal news media to undermine our church," said Coopper, 15, who held a sign that read, "Stop Blaspheming Our Lord Now!"
"I don't know what the articles say, and I won't be reading them." he said.
Yang a.a.#28 rev -273.15 high priest of the most frigid church of Kelvin EAC mole and other furry creature
> "I don't know what the articles say, and I won't be reading them." he > said.
What can you expect with mentality like this? Sure the media can be corrupt and biased at times, but I read new stories with that in mind and try to see through the spin. I question stuff, even my views if they are challenged. These people are covering up the truth without even reading it. I bet they've never read their bibles either.
Have a shpadoinkle day! -Rawley a.a #2029 --
2 Kings 2:23-24 God sends two bears to rip up 42 little children for making fun of Elisha's bald head.
Personal incredulity is no basis for a theory. -Jerry Monk
In alt.atheism (and doubtless elsewhere), on Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:28:16 GMT, Rawley <raw...@hotmail.com> brought the total lines of text written about "Re: EAP: Catholics Protest "Unfair" Media Coverage of Pedophile Priests" to 23. I decided to observe the following about them:
>> "I don't know what the articles say, and I won't be reading them." he >> said.
>What can you expect with mentality like this? Sure the media can be >corrupt and biased at times, but I read new stories with that in mind and >try to see through the spin. I question stuff, even my views if they are >challenged. These people are covering up the truth without even reading >it. I bet they've never read their bibles either.
I bet they don't read the EAP, either. ... EAP.... I wonder what it stands for... -- "Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You." - Attrib: Pauline Reage. Inexpensive VHS & other video to CD/DVD conversion? See: <http://www.Video2CD.com>. 35.00 gets your video on DVD. There is no EAC, so delete it from the email, if you want to communicate.
>> "I don't know what the articles say, and I won't be reading them." he >> said.
>What can you expect with mentality like this? Sure the media can be >corrupt and biased at times, but I read new stories with that in mind and >try to see through the spin. I question stuff, even my views if they are >challenged. These people are covering up the truth without even reading >it. I bet they've never read their bibles either.
EAP, folks, EAP....
What I did was I took an old article about how the Catholics were protesting about the movie "Dogma" and made a few noun changes.
However, the quote you have above was directly from that old article. Like Harry Potter protesters, many of these people are proud to be ignorant about the things they are protesting over.
Yang a.a.#28 rev -273.15 high priest of the most frigid church of Kelvin EAC mole and other furry creature
> >> "I don't know what the articles say, and I won't be reading them." he > >> said.
> >What can you expect with mentality like this? Sure the media can be > >corrupt and biased at times, but I read new stories with that in mind and > >try to see through the spin. I question stuff, even my views if they are > >challenged. These people are covering up the truth without even reading > >it. I bet they've never read their bibles either.
> EAP, folks, EAP....
> What I did was I took an old article about how the Catholics were > protesting about the movie "Dogma" and made a few noun changes.
> However, the quote you have above was directly from that old article. > Like Harry Potter protesters, many of these people are proud to be > ignorant about the things they are protesting over.
> Yang > a.a.#28 > rev -273.15 high priest of the most frigid church of Kelvin > EAC mole and other furry creature
This is typical of ingrained Catholic behavior. My mother is a grammar and literature teacher at a Catholic school. A small cadre of parents controls the literature she gets to teach in her classes. It frustrates her to no end. The parents make the decisions on what will be taught in literature class not by reading potential works and critiquing them, but by buying a book about morality in literature and taking that author's word for what their children should and should not read in class. My mother is a devout Catholic and even SHE disagrees with the parents' choices, especially in the works that they leave out. For example, the children are forbidden to read the Chronicles of Narnia and A Wrinkle in Time because they are "immoral," but Macbeth and Hamlet are OK. I hate censorship and my mom hates the parents' choices, so I encourage her to petition the prinicpal to get rid of the stupid rules, but it's a private school so they won't rock the boat. Religion is the opiate of the masses.
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:09:40 GMT, while wandering by alt.atheism, eacm...@SPAMmail.com (Yang) tapped on my shoulder and told me:
> Catholic Demonstrators Say News Coverage of Priest Abuse "Another > Example of Liberal Media Bias"
> New York (EAP)
Hehehehe, very funny :-)
The sad part is that I've been told that *seriously* in es.charla.religion. I've been accused of being committing a crime of discriminating against priests for making them accountable of child molestation.
-- Angel Arnal, Valencia, España aa #1443 BAAWA knave | ULC Ord. Minister http://angelico.iespana.es maky m. #(sqrt(5)-1)/2 EAC Chairperson for Bible Translation Mess-up | Official EAC Latin Lover --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- John P. Boatwright Award for Creative Scientific Ignorance
> I took 1st year high school algebra, which is all a person needs > to know in order to prove Einstein and his disciples wrong. > Robert B. Winn
Angelico wrote: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:09:40 GMT, while wandering by alt.atheism, > eacm...@SPAMmail.com (Yang) tapped on my shoulder and told me:
>>Catholic Demonstrators Say News Coverage of Priest Abuse "Another >>Example of Liberal Media Bias"
>>New York (EAP)
> Hehehehe, very funny :-)
> The sad part is that I've been told that *seriously* in > es.charla.religion. I've been accused of being committing a crime of > discriminating against priests for making them accountable of child > molestation.
Fred Stone <fston...@earthling.com> wrote in message <news:3CA06238.2080309@earthling.com>... > Angelico wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:09:40 GMT, while wandering by alt.atheism, > > eacm...@SPAMmail.com (Yang) tapped on my shoulder and told me:
> >>Catholic Demonstrators Say News Coverage of Priest Abuse "Another > >>Example of Liberal Media Bias"
> >>New York (EAP)
> > Hehehehe, very funny :-)
> > The sad part is that I've been told that *seriously* in > > es.charla.religion. I've been accused of being committing a crime of > > discriminating against priests for making them accountable of child > > molestation.
Yeah. It reminded me of something I saw on TV a few years ago. A xian protest against some book. The interviewer asked a woman if she had read the book. Got an adament "NO!". Asked how she knew it was bad if she hadn't even bothered to read it. Her response? "I don't need to take arsenic to know it's poison!"
'Course the interviewer didn't point out to her that she didn't make a point. That she no more knew that the book was arsenic than she knew it was poison, because she hadn't read it. I bet she would have flown into a fit if the interviewer had. She was practically foaming at the mouth when she made that last statement.
<fston...@earthling.com> wrote: >Angelico wrote: >> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:09:40 GMT, while wandering by alt.atheism, >> eacm...@SPAMmail.com (Yang) tapped on my shoulder and told me:
>>>Catholic Demonstrators Say News Coverage of Priest Abuse "Another >>>Example of Liberal Media Bias"
>>>New York (EAP)
>> Hehehehe, very funny :-)
>> The sad part is that I've been told that *seriously* in >> es.charla.religion. I've been accused of being committing a crime of >> discriminating against priests for making them accountable of child >> molestation.
eacm...@SPAMmail.com (Yang) wrote in message <news:3ca00bff.168150546@news.service.uci.edu>... > Catholic Demonstrators Say News Coverage of Priest Abuse "Another > Example of Liberal Media Bias"
> New York (EAP)
> Maureen Smith of Buffalo hasn't read the news or stayed informed of > what has happened among the Catholic celrgy, nor does she plan to.
> But she had heard that magazines such as Newsweek and Time, which > contain articles about the current Catholic pedophile scandal, is > anti-Catholic. That, she said, was enough for her to bring her > 16-year-old son and his friend to a protest near the Barnes-and-Noble > bookstore in New York City, New York.- one of many bookstores carrying > the current edition ofNewsweek and Time. "I understand it's > blasphemous," Conrad said. "I trust the people who have read it, and I > believe it's insulting to all Christians."
> Apparently so do about 30 other people who joined a peaceful > demonstration organized by the American Society for the Defense of > Tradition, Family and Property -- a national organization of lay > Catholics based in New York that has about 35,000 members.
> The Catholic League and other groups had planned about 1000 > demonstrations Friday at bookstores across the country.
> Protesters held signs and prayed on their Rosaries as cars went past > their spot on a grassy strip along 42nd Ave, more than 1,000 feet from > the bookstore.
> This is not the first time the Catholic League has used it clout > against what they perceive as "evil" influence of the "liberal" media. > The Catholic League, with more than 350,000 members, pressured the > Walt Disney Co. and its subsidiary Miramax Films to drop "Dogma" about > two and a half years ago.
> "I'm hoping that when people read these articles, they'll say, 'Oh, > it's not the articles that flips the bird at the church,'" an unnamed > Time reporter said this month. "We are actually helping the church in > doing what it should have done in the first place if it was more > competent."
> The articles do question some Catholic doctrine. Lanc Morrow, a Time > columnist who happened to have gone to a Jesuit school in his youth, > questioned the wisdom of priestly celibacy.
> But what offended Robert Bitchie II, director of the Catholic group's > America Needs Fatima campaign, was the fact that such dirty laundry > was aired for all to see.
> "Roman Catholicism must upheld, even by pedophile priests" said > Bitchie II, of New York.
> Tim Cooper, a sophomore at Notre Dame High School, was one of a dozen > teen-agers who took part in the demonstration.
> "All I know is that it's another blasphemous attempt by the liberal > news media to undermine our church," said Coopper, 15, who held a sign > that read, "Stop Blaspheming Our Lord Now!"
> "I don't know what the articles say, and I won't be reading them." he > said.
I don't know whether to praise you for the good satire or damn you for giving them ideas. I wouldn't be the least surprised to see this in a real newspaper sometime soon...
>I don't know whether to praise you for the good satire or damn you for >giving them ideas. I wouldn't be the least surprised to see this in a >real newspaper sometime soon...
-- Landis Ragon (dS = dq/T) Chief Elf in the Toy Factory. "I've got a little list--I've got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground, And who never would be missed--who never would be missed!" -- Gilbert and Sullivan : "The Mikado"
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 21:26:30 GMT Landis D. Ragon <Landis.Ra...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> jester...@my-deja.com (The Jester) wrote: > <snip> >>I don't know whether to praise you for the good satire or damn you for >>giving them ideas. I wouldn't be the least surprised to see this in a >>real newspaper sometime soon...
Boy, it's tough to do good satire and not have it turn out to be true, isn't it?
-- The Left Reverend Plasmat...@godisdead.com Surely it was a conversation between a Muslim and a Hindu that ran: "There is one God." "How odd, I know of hundreds." "My God is the only God." "I know a dozen 'only' Gods."
There's no more proof for the existence of God than there is for the existence of the Easter Bunny. That's right. The Easter Fucking Bunny. -- Stryder, on alt.atheism
>>> "I don't know what the articles say, and I won't be reading them." he >>> said.
>>What can you expect with mentality like this? Sure the media can be >>corrupt and biased at times, but I read new stories with that in mind >>and try to see through the spin. I question stuff, even my views if >>they are challenged. These people are covering up the truth without >>even reading it. I bet they've never read their bibles either.
> EAP, folks, EAP....
You know what's scary? It's hard to *tell it's EAP instead of, oh, AP... -- Mark K. Bilbo #1423 EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion ________________________________________________________________ "The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry." [Richard Dawkins, "Viruses of the Mind"]
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:42:09 -0800, The Plasmatron wrote: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 21:26:30 GMT Landis D. Ragon > <Landis.Ra...@attglobal.net> wrote: >> jester...@my-deja.com (The Jester) wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>I don't know whether to praise you for the good satire or damn you for >>>giving them ideas. I wouldn't be the least surprised to see this in a >>>real newspaper sometime soon...
> Boy, it's tough to do good satire and not have it turn out to be > true, isn't it?
I think we may well have reached the point where satirizing christianity is bringing coals to Newcastle... -- Mark K. Bilbo #1423 EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion ________________________________________________________________ "The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry." [Richard Dawkins, "Viruses of the Mind"]
<markkbi...@yahoo.com> wrote: >On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:42:09 -0800, The Plasmatron wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 21:26:30 GMT Landis D. Ragon >> <Landis.Ra...@attglobal.net> wrote: >>> jester...@my-deja.com (The Jester) wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>>I don't know whether to praise you for the good satire or damn you for >>>>giving them ideas. I wouldn't be the least surprised to see this in a >>>>real newspaper sometime soon...
Yang wrote: > Catholic Demonstrators Say News Coverage of Priest Abuse "Another > Example of Liberal Media Bias"
> New York (EAP)
> Maureen Smith of Buffalo hasn't read the news or stayed informed of > what has happened among the Catholic celrgy, nor does she plan to.
> But she had heard that magazines such as Newsweek and Time, which > contain articles about the current Catholic pedophile scandal, is > anti-Catholic. That, she said, was enough for her to bring her > 16-year-old son and his friend to a protest near the Barnes-and-Noble > bookstore in New York City, New York.- one of many bookstores carrying > the current edition ofNewsweek and Time. "I understand it's > blasphemous," Conrad said. "I trust the people who have read it, and I > believe it's insulting to all Christians."
> Apparently so do about 30 other people who joined a peaceful > demonstration organized by the American Society for the Defense of > Tradition, Family and Property -- a national organization of lay > Catholics based in New York that has about 35,000 members.
> The Catholic League and other groups had planned about 1000 > demonstrations Friday at bookstores across the country.
> Protesters held signs and prayed on their Rosaries as cars went past > their spot on a grassy strip along 42nd Ave, more than 1,000 feet from > the bookstore.
> This is not the first time the Catholic League has used it clout > against what they perceive as "evil" influence of the "liberal" media. > The Catholic League, with more than 350,000 members, pressured the > Walt Disney Co. and its subsidiary Miramax Films to drop "Dogma" about > two and a half years ago.
> "I'm hoping that when people read these articles, they'll say, 'Oh, > it's not the articles that flips the bird at the church,'" an unnamed > Time reporter said this month. "We are actually helping the church in > doing what it should have done in the first place if it was more > competent."
> The articles do question some Catholic doctrine. Lanc Morrow, a Time > columnist who happened to have gone to a Jesuit school in his youth, > questioned the wisdom of priestly celibacy.
> But what offended Robert Bitchie II, director of the Catholic group's > America Needs Fatima campaign, was the fact that such dirty laundry > was aired for all to see.
> "Roman Catholicism must upheld, even by pedophile priests" said > Bitchie II, of New York.
> Tim Cooper, a sophomore at Notre Dame High School, was one of a dozen > teen-agers who took part in the demonstration.
> "All I know is that it's another blasphemous attempt by the liberal > news media to undermine our church," said Coopper, 15, who held a sign > that read, "Stop Blaspheming Our Lord Now!"
> "I don't know what the articles say, and I won't be reading them." he > said.
And people are still wondering why we are atheits!
> Yang > a.a.#28 > rev -273.15 high priest of the most frigid church of Kelvin > EAC mole and other furry creature
> Angelico wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:09:40 GMT, while wandering by alt.atheism, > > eacm...@SPAMmail.com (Yang) tapped on my shoulder and told me:
> >>Catholic Demonstrators Say News Coverage of Priest Abuse "Another > >>Example of Liberal Media Bias"
> >>New York (EAP)
> > Hehehehe, very funny :-)
> > The sad part is that I've been told that *seriously* in > > es.charla.religion. I've been accused of being committing a crime of > > discriminating against priests for making them accountable of child > > molestation.
"The imperfect responses of myself and other leaders in the church to these wrongs, however understandable,..."
...while others for their flaws:
" have been highlighted and criticized throughout the media. ... The media charges of cover-up and intimations of complicity by the bishops have created an atmosphere that erodes trust and faith."
Had they purged the RCC of those priests at first occurrence, they'd never faced those criticisms.
-- Angel Arnal, Valencia, España aa #1443 BAAWA knave | ULC Ord. Minister http://angelico.iespana.es maky m. #(sqrt(5)-1)/2 EAC Chairperson for Bible Translation Mess-up | Official EAC Latin Lover --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- John P. Boatwright Award for Creative Scientific Ignorance
> I took 1st year high school algebra, which is all a person needs > to know in order to prove Einstein and his disciples wrong. > Robert B. Winn
>On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:57:44 -0500, while wandering by alt.atheism, >Fred Stone <fston...@earthling.com> tapped on my shoulder and told me:
>> Angelico wrote: >> > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:09:40 GMT, while wandering by alt.atheism, >> > eacm...@SPAMmail.com (Yang) tapped on my shoulder and told me:
>> >>Catholic Demonstrators Say News Coverage of Priest Abuse "Another >> >>Example of Liberal Media Bias"
>> >>New York (EAP)
>> > Hehehehe, very funny :-)
>> > The sad part is that I've been told that *seriously* in >> > es.charla.religion. I've been accused of being committing a crime of >> > discriminating against priests for making them accountable of child >> > molestation.
>"The imperfect responses of myself and other leaders in the church to >these wrongs, however understandable,..."
>...while others for their flaws:
>" have been highlighted and criticized throughout the media. ... The >media charges of cover-up and intimations of complicity by the bishops >have created an atmosphere that erodes trust and faith."
>Had they purged the RCC of those priests at first occurrence, they'd >never faced those criticisms.
Notice, that aspect of things was quickly swept under the rug. --
Stoney "Designated Rascal and Rapscallion and SCAMPERMEISTER!"
When in doubt, SCAMPER about! When things are fair, SCAMPER everywhere! When things are rough, can't SCAMPER enough!
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 19:28:58 -0800, "Mark K. Bilbo" <markkbi...@yahoo.com>, Message ID: <pan.2002.03.26.19.28.55.305017.5...@yahoo.com> wrote in alt.atheism;
>>>> "I don't know what the articles say, and I won't be reading them." he >>>> said.
>>>What can you expect with mentality like this? Sure the media can be >>>corrupt and biased at times, but I read new stories with that in mind >>>and try to see through the spin. I question stuff, even my views if >>>they are challenged. These people are covering up the truth without >>>even reading it. I bet they've never read their bibles either.
>> EAP, folks, EAP....
>You know what's scary? It's hard to *tell it's EAP instead of, oh, AP...
What's worse is occurances reported by AP, Reuters, and the like are much wierder and wackier than EAP. :\ --
Stoney "Designated Rascal and Rapscallion and SCAMPERMEISTER!"
When in doubt, SCAMPER about! When things are fair, SCAMPER everywhere! When things are rough, can't SCAMPER enough!
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:04:08 +0100, Angelico <estenov...@terra.es> was seen to type in alt.atheism:
>...while others for their flaws:
>" have been highlighted and criticized throughout the media. ... The >media charges of cover-up and intimations of complicity by the bishops >have created an atmosphere that erodes trust and faith."
Well, that makes a change - the church thinking of itself - did they even mention the victims or pay them any lip service at all?
They got caught trying to hide their shameful practises - hiding pedophiles - and now they're trying to weasel out of it by trying to grab the sympathy vote?
When confronted with pedophiles the church seems to cry about how it itself has been affected. Well, fuck you buddy. Don't hide pedophiles and no one will point out that you hid pedophiles. This isn't rocket science to anyone else so why is the church, in it's infinite fucking wisdom, not clued in?
Quite simply because they know they are a front and they have to maintain that image at all costs. I guarantee that if they hadn't been hauled over the coals for hiding pedophiles they would still be doing it and pretending that it doesn't exist within their church. They would still be trying to hype their "purity".
They're nothing but a bunch of colluding lying deceiving scum.
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 20:19:03 -0800, Yang wrote: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 19:31:52 -0800, "Mark K. Bilbo" > <markkbi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:42:09 -0800, The Plasmatron wrote:
>>> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 21:26:30 GMT Landis D. Ragon >>> <Landis.Ra...@attglobal.net> wrote: >>>> jester...@my-deja.com (The Jester) wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>>I don't know whether to praise you for the good satire or damn you >>>>>for giving them ideas. I wouldn't be the least surprised to see this >>>>>in a real newspaper sometime soon...
>>> Boy, it's tough to do good satire and not have it turn out to be >>> true, isn't it?
>>I think we may well have reached the point where satirizing christianity >>is bringing coals to Newcastle...
> From the article:
> "The media charges of cover-up and intimations of complicity by the > bishops have created an atmosphere that erodes trust and faith."
> Sometimes these caricatures just write themselves....
I was wondering what people meant about irony being dead... -- Mark K. Bilbo #1423 EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion ________________________________________________________________ "The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry." [Richard Dawkins, "Viruses of the Mind"]
> >I don't know whether to praise you for the good satire or damn you for > >giving them ideas. I wouldn't be the least surprised to see this in a > >real newspaper sometime soon...
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 19:28:58 -0800, "Mark K. Bilbo" > <markkbi...@yahoo.com>, Message ID: > <pan.2002.03.26.19.28.55.305017.5...@yahoo.com> wrote in alt.atheism; >>On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:37:59 -0800, Yang wrote:
>>> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:28:16 GMT, Rawley <raw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> "I don't know what the articles say, and I won't be reading them." he >>>>> said.
>>>>What can you expect with mentality like this? Sure the media can be >>>>corrupt and biased at times, but I read new stories with that in mind >>>>and try to see through the spin. I question stuff, even my views if >>>>they are challenged. These people are covering up the truth without >>>>even reading it. I bet they've never read their bibles either.
>>> EAP, folks, EAP....
>>You know what's scary? It's hard to *tell it's EAP instead of, oh, AP... > What's worse is occurances reported by AP, Reuters, and the like are > much wierder and wackier than EAP. :\
That's because the EAP, like other satire, has to restrict itself to that which is believable. Human stupidity knows no such bounds.
-- The Left Reverend Plasmat...@godisdead.com Surely it was a conversation between a Muslim and a Hindu that ran: "There is one God." "How odd, I know of hundreds." "My God is the only God." "I know a dozen 'only' Gods."
There's no more proof for the existence of God than there is for the existence of the Easter Bunny. That's right. The Easter Fucking Bunny. -- Stryder, on alt.atheism
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:57:44 -0500, while wandering by alt.atheism, > Fred Stone <fston...@earthling.com> tapped on my shoulder and told me: >> Angelico wrote: >> > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:09:40 GMT, while wandering by alt.atheism, >> > eacm...@SPAMmail.com (Yang) tapped on my shoulder and told me:
>> >>Catholic Demonstrators Say News Coverage of Priest Abuse "Another >> >>Example of Liberal Media Bias"
>> >>New York (EAP)
>> > Hehehehe, very funny :-)
>> > The sad part is that I've been told that *seriously* in >> > es.charla.religion. I've been accused of being committing a crime of >> > discriminating against priests for making them accountable of child >> > molestation.
>> At first I thought Yang had just posted this article: >> http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=25032002-122341-1907r > Always ready to cut themselves some slack: > "The imperfect responses of myself and other leaders in the church to > these wrongs, however understandable,..." > ...while others for their flaws: > " have been highlighted and criticized throughout the media. ... The > media charges of cover-up and intimations of complicity by the bishops > have created an atmosphere that erodes trust and faith." > Had they purged the RCC of those priests at first occurrence, they'd > never faced those criticisms.
Basically they EARNED that erosion of trust and faith. They deserve not to be trusted or to have faith placed in them. They proved that with the way they've handled these fondling priests.
-- The Left Reverend Plasmat...@godisdead.com Surely it was a conversation between a Muslim and a Hindu that ran: "There is one God." "How odd, I know of hundreds." "My God is the only God." "I know a dozen 'only' Gods."
There's no more proof for the existence of God than there is for the existence of the Easter Bunny. That's right. The Easter Fucking Bunny. -- Stryder, on alt.atheism
